Abbreviated CV

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Education

  • B.A. (w/ Honors), Biology/Philosophy, Earlham College, 1980
  • Ph.D., History & Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1991.

Academic Honors & Awards

  • Fulbright-Nehru Academic & Professional Excellence Award. 2024-25.
  • Fellow of Sigma Xi. 2024.
  • President, Sigma Xi—The Scientific Research Honor Society. Elected 12/2019 for 3-year term (President-Elect 2020-21; President 2021-22; Immediate Past President 2022-23).
  • Grand Award. Apex Awards for Publication Excellence – Magazines, Journals, and Tabloids category. American Scientist special issue on Trustworthy Science. 2022
  • MSU Excellence in Diversity Award (Team—Sustained Effort Toward Excellence in Diversity) for BEACON Center accomplishments. 2020-21.
  • International Society for Artificial Life Education & Outreach Award as lead for Avida-ED.  2017.
  • MSU Phi Kappa Phi Excellence Award in Interdisciplinary Scholarship. For Avida-ED Project. 2012.
  • MSU Distinguished Faculty Award. 2011.
  • Thomas Jefferson Religious Freedom Lecture. University of Mary Washington. 2010.
  • American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) Outstanding Service Award. 2009
  • 25th Annual Alfred E. Stiernotte Lecture. Quinnipiac University. 2009.
  • Springer Lecture. International History and Philosophy of Science Teaching Group. 2009.
  • National Associate. National Research Council of the National Academies of Science. Designated lifetime member in 2008.
  • Academy of Scholars Senior Lecture. Wayne State University, Detroit. 2008.
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Elected 2006.
  • Provost’s Convocation/Helen Edison Lecture. Univ. of California, San Diego. 2006.
  • Silverstein Lectures. Northwestern University Medical School. 2006.
  • Sagan National Colloquium Lecture. Ohio Wesleyan University. 2006.
  • Comstock Speakership. Minnesota State University Moorhead. Minnesota. 2005.
  • Matheny Lecture. Southeastern Louisiana University. 2004.
  • Friend of Darwin Award. National Center for Science Education. 2003.
  • Branigan Lecturer. Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University. 2002.
  • Sigma Xi National Distinguished Lecturer. 2000-2002.
  • National Press Club Author’s Night. 1999.
  • CTNS Science & Religion Course Award. 1999.
  • Templeton Prize – Exemplary Paper in Theology and the Natural Sciences. 1997.
  • President of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society (UT-Austin Chapter) . 1994 – 1999.
  • The Philosophy Foundation First International Essay Competition. 1990.
  • Michael R. Bennett Prize (Philosophy Essay Competition). 1988.
  • Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. Elected 1986.
  • Apple for the Teacher Award. 1986.
  • Phi Beta Kappa. Elected 1980.

Grants & Fellowships

  • National Science Foundation – NRT-HDR ($3,000,000). Senior Personnel. WaterCube: Big Data Water Science for Sustainability and Equity. (#2244164) 2023-2026.
  • National Science Foundation – ER2 ($599,930). Principal Investigator. Institutional Transformation: VERITIES – Virtue-Based Education for Responsibility and Integrity To Increase Excellence in STEM. (#2024238) 2020-2026.
  • MSU DFI grant. Salmon Run Educational Video Game Prototype Pilot Study. ($50,000). Co-PI. 2021-2023.
  • National Science Foundation – IUSE ($102,932). Principal Investigator. Extending Avida-ED 4 Dissemination with E-Book and Virtualization Technology. Supplement to Active LENS: Learning Evolution and the Nature of Science using Evolution in Action. (#1432563) 2014-2022.
  • National Science Foundation ($22,500,000). Co-PI.  BEACON: An NSF Science & Technology Center for the Study of Evolution in Action.  (#0939454) 2015-2022.
  • National Science Foundation – IUSE ($2,315,094). Principal Investigator. Active LENS: Learning Evolution and the Nature of Science using Evolution in Action. 2014-2022.
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute ($1,500,000). Co-PI. LEVERS: Leveraging Engagement and Vision to Encourage Retention in STEM. 2014-2019.
  • John Templeton Foundation ($1,055,139). Principal Investigator. The Scientific Virtues: A National Survey of the Ethical Perceptions of Scientific Leaders. (#36630) 2013-2014.
  • John Templeton Foundation ($95,725). Principal Investigator. The Scientific Virtues: Planning Grant for a National Survey of the Ethical Perceptions of Scientific Leaders. (#36630) 2012-2013.
  • National Science Foundation ($25,000,000). Co-PI.  BEACON: An NSF Science & Technology Center for the Study of Evolution in Action.  (#OIA-0939454) 2010-2015.
  • National Science Foundation – Co-PI. CRI:IAD — A Testbed for Evolving Cooperative and Adaptive Behavior among Autonomous Systems. (APP 98946-00) 2008-2009.
  • National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) Sabbatical Fellowship. Theory and Applications of Evolutionary Computation. 2008
  • National Science Foundation. Senior Personnel. “BRAID: Bridging the Disciplines with Authentic Inquiry & Discourse” 2007-2010.
  • Cambridge Templeton Consortium. Principal Investigator. Emerging Intelligence: Contingency, Convergence and Constraints in the Evolution of Intelligent Behavior. (#1119) 2005-2009.
  • National Science Foundation. Principal Investigator. Avida-ED: Technology for Teaching Evolution and the Nature of Science using Digital Organisms. (#DUE-0341484) 2004-2008.
  • MSU Quality Fund. Senior Personnel. BRAID: Bridging the Disciplines with Authentic Inquiry & Discourse. 2006-2008
  • MSU Foundation Grant. “Applied Darwinism: Theory & Practice of Evolutionary Design”. 2002-2003.
  • American Scientific Affiliation / Templeton Lecture grant. 2002.
  • National Science Foundation / Sigma Xi Ethics in Science Workshop grant (Co-PI w/ Terry May) 2001.
  • American Scientific Affiliation / Templeton Lecture grant. 2000-01.
  • Capacity Building Grant, MSU Foundation. 2000
  • National Science Foundation / National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. 1996. Summer Institute on Scientific, Ethical, and Social Challenges of Contemporary Genetic Technology.
  • Three Nails Fellowship. 1994. Obirin University, Tokyo JAPAN
  • U.R.I. Summer Research Award. 1994. “Causal Confirmation, Information and Experimental Method.”
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. 1993. Summer Institute on Naturalism
  • Mellon Foundation Fellowships. 1985-1986 and 1988-1989.
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