P. Timon McPhearson (and coauthors, Stuart P.D. Gill, Robert Pollack, and Julia E. Sable)
Biographical Information
P. Timon McPhearson (and coauthors, Stuart P.D. Gill, Robert Pollack, and Julia E. Sable),
are at Columbia University, New York, USA. Dr. McPhearson and his colleagues teach a
course entitled “Frontiers of Science” at Columbia University Dr. Mcphearson is a research scientist at Columbia’s Earth Institute. He previously taught various science courses at Rutgers
University and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), and is now active
in curriculum development at both Columbia and AMNH. He is an ecological advisor for
AMNH’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation and a former fellow of the National
Science Foundation. His research interests include the role of cooperation in ecosystems,
climate change effects on biodiversity, and science education (http://www.columbia.edu/
cu/cssr/). Dr. Gill is a Columbia Science Fellow in the Department of Astronomy. He has
been involved in curriculum development for several years in both tertiary and secondary
levels. Most notably he has been involved in the development of the ‘New Basics Project’,
a fundamental re-envisioning of secondary education. His research interests include the
formation and evolution of galaxies and galaxy clusters. Dr. Pollack has been a professor
of Biological Sciences since 1978, and is Lecturer in Psychiatry, Adjunct Professor of
Religion, and Director of the Center for the Study of Science and Religion, at Columbia
University. He was Dean of Columbia College from 1982-1989. He received the Alexander
Hamilton Medal from Columbia University, and was the holder of a Guggenheim
Fellowship. He is the author of Signs of Life: The Languages and Meanings of DNA, The
Missing Moment: How the Unconscious Shapes Modern Science, and The Faith of Biology
and the Biology of Faith: Meaning, Order and Free Will in Modern Medical Science (http://
www.columbia.edu/cu/cssr). Julia E. Sable, M.S., M.Ed, is a senior research associate in the
department of, Biological Sciences, Columbia University, and a doctoral candidate in Science
Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Ms. Sable’s research at Columbia
University involves understanding the process of membrane-cytoskeleton adhesion in
mammalian cells. She is an Adjunct Professor of Biology at The Cooper Union, Barnard
and Columbia Colleges. Her science education research focuses on undergraduate science
curriculum reform and the process of college science faculty cognitive apprenticeship.
Her Ph.D. thesis focuses on the role of faculty in the implementation process of Frontiers
of Science and describes the faculty’s lived-experiences while teaching in this course. She
is also an active member of New York University’s Future Science Educators Program and
NYAS Science Education division. |
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