NSF ATE Investments in Quantitative Biology in 2-year Institutions of Higher Education

V. Celeste Carter, Ph.D., Program Director, Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE), National Science Foundation (NSF).

V. Celeste Carter received her Ph.D. in Microbiology from the Pennsylvania State University School of Medicine. She completed postdoctoral studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She joined the Division of Biological and Health Sciences at Foothill College to develop and head both Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Programs. She served as a Program Director twice in the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Carter accepted a permanent program director position in DUE in 2009; she is the Lead Program Director for the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program in DUE. Dr. Carter also works on other programs in DUE and serves on federal interagency working groups.

What comes first: mathematics or biology? Nope, they go together!

Julie Phelps, Ph.D. & Sidra Van De Car, Ph.D, American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC)

Julie Phelps is the Standards Committee Chair (IMPACT Team) for AMATYC and is leading the charge of creating the process for keeping the AMATYC IMPACT content alive. She is also involved with the myAMATYC.org and helping IMPACT Live! continue to focus on information that matters to our members. She currently is also involved in the Teaching for PROWESS project. The project is a joint venture with AMATYC and NSF to promote active learning and transformational change in the first two years of college mathematics. This year Julie has become a member of the College Mathematics Journal (CMJ) editorial board for the Mathematics Association of America (MAA).  Julie has been a professor of Mathematics at Valencia College since 1997.

Sidra Van De Car is a professor of mathematics at Valencia College in Orlando, Florida. She holds two PhDs from the University of Central Florida, one in Mathematics and one in Applied Experimental and Human Factors Psychology. She has been teaching on the collegiate level for twenty-four years and has research interests in learning and cognition. At Valencia, Sidra is a faculty advisor for the Women in STEM club and works in the college’s Teaching and Learning Academy helping tenure-track faculty.  She is currently PI on a 5-year, NSF grant titled “Successful Engagement: Active Learning in Mathematics”.