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APPENDIX
I
Committee Biographies
JEREMIAH P. OSTRIKER, Ph.D. (NAS), Committee Chair, is a professor of astrophysical sciences at
Princeton University and Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy, Emeritus, at the
University of Cambridge. He received his B.A. in physics and chemistry from Harvard University and his
Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Chicago. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Cambridge
University, Dr. Ostriker served on the faculty at Princeton University as a professor (1966-present), as
department chair Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy and director of the Princeton University
Observatory (1979-1995), and as university provost (1995-2001). During his tenure as provost, Princeton
received a major grant from the Mellon Foundation to improve doctoral education in the humanities. He
is a renowned astrophysicist and has received many awards and honors, including membership in the
National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the 2001 recipient of the U.S. National Medal of Science. He
has served on several National Research Council (NRC) and National Academies committees, including
the NAS Council and the NRC Governing Board. Dr. Ostriker also served as the Chair of the Panel on
Quantitative Measures. Currently, he is Treasurer of the National Academy of Sciences.
VIRGINIA S. HINSHAW, Ph.D. (Committee Vice-Chair), is Chancellor of the University of Hawai‘i at
Mānoa and Professor of Virology in the John A. Burns School of Medicine at UH Mānoa. Dr. Hinshaw
earned her B.S.in laboratory technology, M.S. and Ph.D. in microbiology from Auburn University. Her
research for over 25 years focused on influenza viruses in humans, lower mammals and birds,
investigating such aspects as: important hosts in nature; transmission among species; genetic changes
related to disease severity; the molecular basis of cell killing; and new approaches to vaccines. She has
conducted research at various hospitals and universities, including Medical College of Virginia, the
University of California Berkeley, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and
the University of Wisconsin—Madison. She has been recognized for her innovative and energetic
teaching style and her continual advocacy for research and education. Prior to joining UH Mānoa,
Hinshaw served as the provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of California, Davis, and as
dean of the graduate school and vice chancellor for research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
ELTON D. ABERLE, Ph.D., is Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of the College of
Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his B.S.
from Kansas State University in 1962, his M.S. from Michigan State University in 1965, and his
Ph.D. from Michigan State University in food sciences in 1967. Previously, Dr. Aberle held
administrative positions at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Institute of Agriculture and
Natural Resources, and a faculty position at Purdue University. His research and teaching
background is in muscle biology, and animal and food sciences. Dr. Aberle has received teaching
and research awards from the American Society of Animal Sciences and the American Meat
Science Association, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science and the American Society of Animal Science. He also served on the Panel of Taxonomy
and Interdisciplinarity.
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NORMAN M. BRADBURN, Ph.D., is Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service
Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago and senior fellow at the National Opinion
Research Center at the University of Chicago. He has served three terms as director of the
center, from 1967 to 1992. From 2000-2004 he was the Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral
and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation. He also served as provost of the
University of Chicago from 1984 to 1989. He received his Ph.D. degree in social psychology
from Harvard University. He has been a member of the research and advisory panel of the U.S.
General Accounting Office; a member and former chair of the Committee on National Statistics,
National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences; and a member of the Panel to Review
the Statistical Procedures for the Decennial Census. He also is an elected member of the
International Statistical Institute and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
and the American Statistical Association. His research has focused on psychological well-being
and assessing the quality of life; non-sampling errors in sample surveys; and research on
cognitive processes in responses to sample surveys. He is currently working on developing a
humanities indicator system and a large scale study of the cultural infrastructure. His book,
Thinking About Answers: The Application of Cognitive Process to Survey Methodology (co-
authored with Seymour Sudman and Norbert Schwarz; Jossey-Bass, 1996), follows three other
publications on the methodology of designing and constructing questionnaires: Polls and
Surveys: Understanding What They Tell Us (with Seymour Sudman; Jossey-Bass, 1988); Asking
Questions: A Practical Guide to Questionnaire Construction (with Seymour Sudman; Jossey-
Bass, 1982; 2nd edition with Brian Wansink, 2004) and Improving Interviewing Method and
Questionnaire Design (Jossey-Bass, 1979).
JOHN BRAUMAN, Ph.D. (NAS), is J. G. Jackson - C. J. Wood Professor of Chemistry,
Emeritus at Stanford University. John Brauman was born in Pittsburgh, PA in 1937. He
attended M.I.T. (S.B., 1959) and the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D., 1963). He was
a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA, then took the position at Stanford
University. He was Department Chair, Associate Dean for Natural Sciences, and has been
Associate Dean of Research since 2005-. He also currently serves as the Home Secretary of the
National Academy of Sciences. Brauman has received a number of awards including the
American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry, Harrison Howe Award, Guggenheim
Fellowship, R. C. Fuson Award, Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, the James Flack Norris Award
in Physical-Organic Chemistry, the National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences,
the Linus Pauling Medal, the Willard Gibbs Medal, and the National Medal of Science. He is a
member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
American Philosophical Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, and an Honorary Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences. He received the
Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching from Stanford University in 1976. Brauman has
served on many national committees and advisory boards. He was Deputy Editor for Physical
Sciences for SCIENCE from 1985 to 2000 and is currently the Chair of the Senior Editorial
Board. Brauman's research has centered on structure and reactivity. He has studied ionic
reactions in the gas phase, including acid-base chemistry, the mechanisms of proton transfers,
nucleophilic displacement, and addition-elimination reactions. His work includes inferences
about the shape of the potential surfaces and the dynamics of reactions on these surfaces. He has
made contributions to the field of electron photodetachment spectroscopy of negative ions,
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measurements of electron affinities, the study of dipole-supported electronic states, and multiple
photon infrared activation of ions. He has also studied mechanisms of solution and gas phase
organic reactions as well as organometallic reactions and the behavior of biomimetic
organometallic species.
JONATHAN R. COLE, Ph.D. is at Columbia University. He is currently the John Mitchell
Mason Professor of the University, and was Provost and Dean of Faculties at Columbia from
1989-2003. He received his B.A. from Columbia, 1964; and his Ph.D., Sociology, Columbia,
1969. He was the Adolphe Quetelet Professor of Social Science, 1989 to 2001; Professor of
Sociology, Columbia University from 1976 to present; Adjunct Professor, Rockefeller
University, 1983-1985; Vice President of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, 1987-1989.
Director, Center for the Social Sciences, 1979-1987; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, 1975-76; John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
Fellowship, 1975-76; Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992; "National
Associate" U.S. National Academies of Sciences, 2003. Elected Member, Council on Foreign
Relations, 2003; Elected Member, American Philosophical Society, 2005; Cavaliere Ufficiale in
the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy, 1996; Commendatore in the Order of Merit of the
Republic of Italy, 2003. Served on and continues to serve on multiple national committees of the
NSF, NRC, and NAS. Some publications in the sociology of science, science policy, and higher
education, include: Social Stratification in Science (with Stephen Cole) (1973); Peer Review in
the National Science Foundation: Phase One (1978) and Phase Two (1981) of a Study (co-
authored); Fair Science: Women in the Scientific Community (1979); The Wages of Writing: Per
Word, Per Piece, or Perhaps (1986) (co-authored); The Outer Circle: Women in the Scientific
Community (1991) (co-edited and author); The Research University in a Time of Discontent (co-
edited and author)(1994); multiple journal publications on similar topics. His book, The Great
American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Threatened Future, will be published by
Public Affairs in the fall of 2009.
PAUL W. HOLLAND holds the Frederic M. Lord Chair in Measurement and Statistics (retired)
in the Research & Development Division at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ.
His educational background includes a M.A. and a Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University,
1966, and a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Michigan, 1962. His association with
ETS began in 1975. In 1979 he became the director of the Research Statistics Group. In 1986
Holland was appointed ETS's first distinguished research scientist. He left ETS in 1993 to join
the faculty at University of California Berkeley as a professor in the Graduate School of
Education and the Department of Statistics, but returned in 2000 to his current position at ETS.
He has made significant contributions to the following applications of statistics to social science
research: categorical data analysis, social networks, test equating, differential item functioning,
test security issues, causal inference in nonexperimental research, and the foundations of item
response theory. His current research interests include kernel equating methods, population
invariance of test linking, software for item response theory, and causal inference in program
evaluation and policy research.
ERIC W. KALER, Ph.D., became the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
at Stony Brook University in 2007. Prior to that, he was the Elizabeth Inez Kelley Professor in
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the department of chemical engineering and the Dean of the college of engineering at the
University of Delaware. He holds a B.S. from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D.
from the University of Minnesota, both in chemical engineering. He is known for his
distinguished study and applications of complex fluids, including advances in the understanding
of surfactant mixtures and for the use of complex fluids to synthesize new materials. Dr. Kaler
has served on several NRC panels, including the subpanel for the NIST center for neutron
research, which he chaired, and the panel for materials science and engineering. He was named
fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2001. He was one of the
first to receive a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation in
1984. He also received the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award from the American Society of
Engineering Education in 1995 and the 1998 American Chemical Society Award in Colloid or
Surface Chemistry. He is Co-editor-in-chief of Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science.
EARL LEWIS, Ph.D. is Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and the
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies. Before joining the
Emory faculty in July 2004, Lewis served as dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate
Studies and vice provost for academic affairs/graduate studies at the University of Michigan. He
was the Elsa Barkley Brown and Robin D.G. Kelley Collegiate Professor of History and African
American and African Studies and formerly director of the Center for Afro-American and
African Studies. From 1984 to 1989 he was on the faculty in the department of African
American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Lewis, who holds degrees in history
and psychology, is author and co-editor of seven books, among them In Their Own Interests:
Race, Class and Power in 20th Century Norfolk (University of California Press, 1993) and the
award-winning To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans (Oxford University
Press, 2000). Between 1997 and 2000 he co-edited the eleven-volume The Young Oxford History
of African Americans. Lewis co-authored the widely acclaimed Love on Trial: An American
Scandal in Black and White, published in 2001 by WW Norton. His most recent books are The
African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present, co-
edited and published with Palgrave (2004), and the co-written Defending Diversity: Affirmative
Action at the University of Michigan, published by the University of Michigan Press (2004). He
is a current or past member of a number of editorial boards and boards of directors. And he is
co-editor of the award-winning book series American Crossroads (University of California
Press). He received the 2001 University of Minnesota's Outstanding Achievement Award given
to a distinguished graduate. And Concordia College, whose board of regents he joined in 2008,
honored him with an honorary degree in 2002. He was named a fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.
JOAN F. LORDEN, Ph.D., is Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received a B.A. from the City College of New
York and a Ph.D. from Yale University. Dr. Lorden served for over eight years as Dean of the
Graduate School and Associate Provost for Research at the University of Alabama at
Birmingham (UAB). During 2002-03, she was the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) Dean-in-
Residence at the Division of Graduate Education at the National Science Foundation and chaired
the CGS Board of Directors. She chaired the Board of Directors of Oak Ridge Associated
Universities and was President of the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools. Dr. Lorden has
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been a member of the Executive Committee of the Council on Academic Affairs and chaired the
Executive Committee of the Council on Research Policy and Graduate Education of the National
Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. Dr. Lorden’s research focuses on
brain-behavior relationships. She was awarded the Ireland Prize for Scholarly Distinction by
UAB. She has served on review panels and study sections at NSF, NIH, DoD, and private
agencies. At UAB she organized the doctoral program in behavioral neuroscience and was a
founding member and director of the university-wide interdisciplinary Graduate Training
Program in Neuroscience. As Graduate Dean, Dr. Lorden fostered programs that increased
opportunities for breadth of training among graduate students, served as the program director for
an interdisciplinary biological sciences training grant, and established one of the first offices for
postdoctoral support. She is actively involved in programs designed to improve the success of
women and minorities in graduate education and faculty careers in science and engineering, and
has received several grants to advance these goals. She currently serves as the Principal
Investigator for an NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant.
CAROL B. LYNCH, Ph.D., Carol B. Lynch is a Senior Scholar at the Council of Graduate
Schools, where she directs the professional master’s initiatives. She is Dean Emerita at the
University of Colorado at Boulder where she was Professor of Ecological and Evolutionary
Biology, and Fellow of the Institute for Behavioral Genetics, having served as Dean of the
Graduate School and Vice Chancellor for Research from 1992-2004. She received her B.A. from
Mount Holyoke College, her M.A. from the University of Michigan, and her Ph.D. from the
University of Iowa. She held a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in the
Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado. Much of her professional career
was spent at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut as a Professor of Biology and
Dean of the Sciences. She has received a Research Career Development Award from NIH, is a
Fellow of the AAAS and was President of the Behavior Genetics Association. Prior to coming to
the University of Colorado, Dr. Lynch was the Program Director in Population Biology and
Physiological Ecology at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Lynch was President of the
Western Association of Graduate Schools and has served on the Board of Directors of the
Council of Graduate Schools and on the Executive Committee of the Council on Research Policy
and Graduate Education at the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant
Colleges. She is currently a member of the Graduate Record Examination Board and the TOEFL
Board (ETS), as well as the ETS Board of Trustees. In 2001-2002, she served as the inaugural
CGS/NSF Dean in Residence. Dr. Lynch has held research grants from NIH, NSF, NATO, and
the BNSF, has authored numerous publications in evolutionary and behavioral genetics, and was
Co-PI on an NSF AGEP award and an NSF ADVANCE award.
ROBERT NEREM, Ph.D., joined Georgia Tech in 1987 as the Parker H. Petit Distinguished
Chair for Engineering in Medicine. He currently serves as the Director of the Parker H. Petit
Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, and he also is the Director of the Georgia
Tech/Emory Center (GTEC) for the Engineering of Living Tissues, an NSF-funded Engineering
Research Center. He received his Ph.D. in 1964 from Ohio State University and was promoted to
Professor in 1972, serving from 1975-1979 as Associate Dean for Research in the Graduate
School. From 1979 to 1986 he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Mechanical
Engineering at the University of Houston. Professor Nerem is the author of more than 200
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publications. He is a Fellow and was the founding President of the American Institute of
Medical and Biological Engineering (1992-1994), and he is past President of the Tissue
Engineering Society International. In addition, he was the part-time Senior Advisor for
Bioengineering in the new National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the
National Institutes of Health (2003-2006). In 1988 Professor Nerem was elected to the National
Academy of Engineering (NAE), and he served on the NAE Council (1998-2004). In 1992 he
was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and in 1998 a
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In March 1990 Professor Nerem was
presented with an honorary doctorate from the University of Paris, and in 1994 he was elected a
Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1998 he was made an Honorary Fellow
of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in the United Kingdom, in 2004 he was elected an
honorary foreign member of the Japan Society for Medical and Biological Engineering, and in
2006 a Foreign Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences. In 2008
Professor Nerem was selected by NAE for the Founders Award. Research interests include
biomechanics, cardiovascular devices, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and stem cell
technology.
SUZANNE ORTEGA, Ph.D. assumed the position of Provost and Executive Vice President for
Academic Affairs at the University of New Mexico on August 1, 2008. She previously served as
Dean and Vice Provost of the Graduate School at the University of Washington from 2005-2008
and as Vice Provost for Advanced Studies and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of
Missouri – Columbia (MU) from 2000 to 2005. She received a bachelor's degree in sociology
from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tenn., in 1974, and a master's and doctorate in
sociology in 1976 and 1979, respectively, from Vanderbilt University. Dr. Ortega was at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1980 to 2000, serving as assistant professor (1980-1986),
associate professor (1986-1995), special assistant to the dean of graduate studies (1994-1995),
assistant dean of graduate studies (1995) special assistant to the senior vice chancellor for
academic affairs (1997-1998) and associate dean of graduate studies and professor (1995-2000).
She is the author of numerous articles and an Introductory Sociology textbook, now in its
seventh edition. Her most important administrative accomplishments include securing funding
for the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Degree, Preparing Future Faculty, Diversity
Enhancement, and Ph.D. Completion programs. Dr. Ortega has served as Chair of the Board of
Directors of the Council of Graduate Schools, Chair of the Graduate Record Examination Board,
Chair of the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools and on the executive committee of the
Council on Research Policy and Graduate Education of the National Association of State
Universities and Land Grant Colleges. She has also served on the American Sociological
Association (ASA) Advisory Board for Preparing Future Faculty, ASA Executive Office and
Budget committee, and the National Science Foundation Human Resources Expert Panel.
CATHARINE R. STIMPSON, Ph.D., is Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science, and
University Professor at New York University. She earned an A.B. in English, magna cum laude,
from Bryn Mawr College in 1958; a B.A. with honors in 1960 and an M.A. in 1966 from
Newnham College, Cambridge University; and a Ph.D. with distinction from Columbia
University in 1967. Formerly, Dr. Stimpson was a member of the English Department of
Barnard College (1963-80), where she was the first director of the Women's Center and the
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founding editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (1974-80) for the University
of Chicago Press. In 1981, she became Professor of English at Rutgers University, then Dean of
the Graduate School, Vice Provost for Graduate Education, and University Professor; she was
also the first director of the Institute for Research on Women. While at Rutgers, Dr. Stimpson
continued to teach, while she served as Director of the MacArthur Foundation Fellows Program
(1994-97). She is a former chair of the New York State Humanities Council and the National
Council for Research on Women as well as past president of the Modern Language Association.
Dr. Stimpson also served as president of the Association of Graduate Schools in 2000-01. She
holds honorary degrees from several universities and colleges, including Upsala, Bates,
Hamilton, and the University of Arizona. Dr. Stimpson's publications include a book, Where the
Meanings Are: Feminism and Cultural Spaces, and a novel, Class Notes. She has edited seven
books, has served as co-editor of the Library of America's Gertrude Stein: Writings 1903-1932
and Gertrude Stein: Writings 1932-1946, and has published over 150 monographs, essays,
stories, and reviews.
RICHARD WHEELER, Ph.D., is Vice Provost at the University of Illinois. He received his
Ph.D. in English from the State University of Buffalo in 1970. He joined the Department of
English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1969 and has been on the Illinois
faculty ever since. From 1987 to 1997 he was Head of the Department of English, and in 1999-
2000 he was Acting Head of the Department of Anthropology. He was Dean of the Graduate
College from 2000 to 2009. He has chaired the Executive Committee of the Midwest
Association of Graduate Schools, the Graduate Deans group of the Committee on Institutional
Cooperation, and the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Council of Graduate
Schools. His scholarly publications include Shakespeare’s Development and the Problem
Comedies: Turn and Counter-Turn (U of California P, 1981), The Whole Journey: Shakespeare’s
Power of Development (co-authored, U of California P, 1986), Creating Elizabethan Tragedy
(ed., U of Chicago P, 1988), Critical Essays on Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure (ed., G.K.
Hall, 1999), and articles on Shakespeare, renaissance drama, and modern British literature. His
scholarship has been centrally concerned with identifying key psychological patterns that shape
the development of Shakespeare’s work and, more recently, plausible links between the plays
and the life of their author.
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