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Lynne McElhaney, WWNFF Faculty
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Lynne McElhaney, President of the Alabama Science Teachers Association, has been teaching science for 24 years, both at the university and high school levels. For the last 10 years Lynne taught Biology, Chemistry, Anatomy and Physiology, and Marine Science at LeFlore High School in Mobile, Alabama. She is currently serving as a Special Services Teacher with the Alabama State Department of Education working with "alert" schools to raise their standardized test scores. Some of her honors include the 2000 Radio Shack National Teacher Awards, the 1999 Presidential Award for Secondary Science, and the 1998 National Association of Biology Teachers Outstanding Biology Teacher Award. In 1998, Lynne was one of the first teachers to receive National Board Certification in AYA Science.
In addition to teaching, Lynne has been an Infectious Disease Research Associate, chemist for a water and wastewater treatment facility, and a Research Associate for Sea Grant where she studied the bacteria polluting Mobile Bay. She has developed a love for molecular biology, genetics, and genomics in her tenure as a life long learner.
Lynne has been married for 29 years and has two children, 21 and 23.
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Eugene McNicholas, WWNF Faculty
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Eugene McNicholas, currently teaching Biology I and Biology I Honors at Kittatinny Regional High School in rural Sussex County New Jersey. He became involved with the Woodrow Wilson Institute as a participant in the summer of 1998. Since then he has helped to evaluate grant applications as well as conduct a TORCH institute. He has a genuine interest in helping teachers to become the best that they can be, this in turn allows him to positively impact the education of many students. He has been involved in the design and execution of many teacher workshops, most recently the Rutgers University New Science Teachers Institute. One of the highlights of his working in the area of teacher training was in working with a group of educators and administrators from the former Soviet Union, to show how local resources can be used as an enhancement to the educational process.
Gene's educational contributions have been recognized in many ways including: Grants from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and NJBISEC, the Governors award as teacher of the year, Who's Who Among American Teachers and most recently by being elected as President of The New Jersey Science Teachers association.
Gene has been married for five years and has a daughter who is four years old. He enjoys many activities including, fine dining, hiking, and listening to music, especially Bruce Springsteen.
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Rob DeSalle, WWNFF Faculty
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Rob DeSalle, curator in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology and co-director of its molecular laboratories, has a definite knack for collaboration. Something about him seems to make brilliant people want to work with him. Perhaps it is his casual, open manner; or his boundless curiosity; or his evident enthusiasm and respect for the ideas of others. Perhaps it is his willingness to offer the use of his lab, which contains tremendously expensive machinery that can sequence the DNA of hundreds of organisms in a single day. Or perhaps it is simply the quality of his own research that invites collaboration. At any rate, if you've got an exciting hypothesis about biodiversity and need some DNA sequenced to test it, Rob is your man.Rob's website:
http://www.amnh.org/learn/pd/genetics/profiles/rdesalle.html
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Andrew Goldenkranz, WWNFF Faculty
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Andrew Goldenkranz, was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he lived for seventeen years until his acceptance into Stanford University. At Stanford, he majored in Human Biology, with a minor in political science. During his sophomore year his faculty advisor, Donald Kennedy, was named head of the Food and Drug Administration. As a result, a whole cohort of young biologists became interested in public policy.
Andrew was elected president of the Stanford student government in 1978, and sat on the university Committee on Research. This was the period in which Paul Berg (who had conducted the first plasmid recombinations) had led a voluntary moratorium on recombinant DNA research. During meetings Dr. Berg regularly told Andrew "you don't know anything about science". This was undoubtedly the seed that led him to become a science teacher.
After college he worked for a year in Linus Pauling's lab participating in Vitamin C research, then for the Stanford Medical School Department of Immunology as a research associate. Soon the political bug caught on full time, and he went to work for the AFL-CIO as a political campaign organizer specializing in health care issues.
He began teaching at Aptos High at the beginning of the 1996-1997 year, teaching Advanced Placement Biology, Life Science, and Health. He represents the science department on the school Technologyy committee, which is preparing the Digital High School program. For 1999, he is leading a team forming a core 9th grade academy focused on health themes. With two national science fair winners coming from Aptos High, he would like to see more students performing research internships at UCSC, a local university.
During the summers Andrew directs the CORE Biology Institute at Princeton University, sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson National Foundation and funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was named a district mentor teacher beginning in 1998. In his spare time he teaches a college level computer class for health professionals, and also teaches kindergarten at Temple Beth El in Aptos.
Andrew's website:
http://www.aptoshs.net/~agoldenk/
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