Who is Eligible: An individual who has demonstrated innovative and sustained contributions to science education, with particular emphasis on the local, regional, and/or national impact of the nominee’s activities. The primary nominator must be a member of the ASCB, but the candidate and support letter authors need not be.

How to Apply: Provide a letter of nomination, a maximum of three letters of support, and CV.

Awards: The winner is presented a plaque and will give remarks at the Annual Meeting. Expenses to attend the Annual Meeting are paid.

Deadline: March 31.

Nominations should be sent by March 31 to the ASCB Office.
ATTN: ASCB Education Committee

Bruce Alberts Awardees:

2009 Manuel Berriozábal and Toby Horn
Berriozábal, of University of Texas at San Antonio, was honored for founding the Prefreshman Engineering Program (PREP) in 1979. It is asummer enrichment program for middle and high school students who are underrepresented in college engineering programs. Now a statewide program, PREP has enrolled 28,000 students; 99.9% have graduated from high school 84% have graduated from college. Horn, of the Carnegie Institution for Science, was honored for her sustained contributions to K–12 science education. Most recently, as co-director of the Carnegie Academy for Science Education (CASE), Horn has been involved in various educational programs in partnership with Washington, DC, public schools. These programs offer professional development opportunities for teachers, biotech industry intern experiences for students, and loaner lab equipment and materials for the high school classroom

2008 Wm. David Burns and Karen K. Oates
Burns and Oates were awarded for their effort in founding Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER), a faculty development and science education reform project supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Since 2001, more than 1300 educators, administrators, and students from 330 colleges, universities, high schools, governmental and nongovernmental organizations concerned with the improvement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education have participated in SENCER events and launched projects on campus. Burns is currently the Executive Director of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement at Harrisburg University, and Oates, who was provost for Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, is now with the Division of Undergraduate Education, NSF.

2007 Patricia J. Pukkila
Pukkila, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was chosen primarily for her exceptional contributions to undergraduate science education at the local, state, and national level. An internationally recognized leader in the study of recombination and fungal genomics, Pukkila is also recognized for her effort to make undergraduate research a key part of the Quality Enhancement Plan for the recent Southern Association of Colleges and Schools reaccreditation.

2006 A. Malcolm Campbell and Sarah C.R. Elgin
Campbell and Elgin were named awardees in part for their joint contributions to the ASCB’s education journal, CBE—Life Sciences Education. They also were selected because of their substantial individual contributions to U.S. science education. Campbell, of Davidson College, has been a leader in bringing genomics to the undergraduate curriculum; he authored a genomics textbook in 2001 and, that same year, founded the Genome Consortium for Active Teaching (GCAT) at Davidson. Elgin, of Washington University in St. Louis, founded the Science Outreach Program, which serves K–12 schools in the St. Louis area. In 2005 the program reached 1,700 teachers and 24,700 students. Selected as an HHMI professor in 2002, Elgin more recently established Washington University’s Genomics in Education Program to engage students in sequencing and annotating genomes.

2005 Samuel Silverstein
Silverstein, of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, received the award in recognition of his innovative and effective Summer Research Program for High School Science Teachers in New York, which he founded and directs.

2004 William Wood
Wood, of the University of Colorado, conducts research on the genetic control and molecular biology of embryonic axis formation and pattern formation in development of C. elegans. He authored the textbook Biochemistry, still widely used, and founded the National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Biology Education.

2003 Nancy Hutchison
Hutchison received the award in recognition of her vision and leadership as Director of the Hutchinson Center’s Science Education Partnership, a professional development program for Washington secondary school teachers that she co-founded in 1999. That same year she helped to found HutchLab, a program to expose high school students to biomedical research at the Hutchinson Center.

2002 Sandra Mayrand
Mayrand, of the Regional Science Resource Center at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, was awarded for how her early volunteer K–12 science education activities grew into a major science education initiative, bringing researchers and educators together around the focus of experimental cell biology.

2001 David Bynum
Bynum, of the State University of New York, was awarded for the range and depth of his activities in science education. His programs affect education at many levels, and he has assessed their outcomes and shown that they work.

2000 Virginia Shepherd
Shepherd, of Vanderbilt University, directs Science Education Outreach for Vanderbilt. Among the programs she has spearheaded are a "Girls and Science" summer camp, the design and implementation of a new research-based molecular biology course at Nashville’s Martin Luther King Science Magnet School, and the development of instructional CDs.

1999 Eugenie Scott
Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, was awarded for her dedication to protecting the teaching of evolution through writing, speeches, media appearances and, importantly, presentations to school boards, teachers, churches, and parents.

1998 Robert DeHaan
DeHaan, of Emory University, received the award for establishing the highly successful Elementary Science Education Partners in the Atlanta schools.