July 19, 2003
Show 111
Guest, Dr. Saundra Yancy McGuire

Dr. Saundra Yancy McGuire is the Director of the Center for Academic Success, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, and Associate Dean of University College at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She is actively involved in curriculum reform efforts at LSU, and has written several ancillary books for General Chemistry textbooks. Dr. McGuire has been teaching chemistry for the past 30 years. Prior to joining LSU in August 1999, she spent eleven years at Cornell University, where she served as Acting Director of the Center for Learning and Teaching, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry. She received the 1991 Clark Distinguished Teaching Award while at Cornell. Her current interests include improving learning strategies used by university students, reform of pre-college science and college science teaching methods, and increasing the number of students who are interested in and prepared to pursue careers in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology. She has been nationally recognized for her teaching, workshop presentations, and mentoring of students. In 2002, she received the coveted Dr. Henry C. McBay Outstanding Teacher award from the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers.

Links:
Louisiana State University Center for Academic Success
Dr. McGuire’s Chemistry Department Home Page at LSU



August 2, 2003
Show 112
Guest, Dr. Vivian W. Pinn

Dr. Vivian W. Pinn is the first full-time Director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an appointment she has held since November 1991. In February 1994, she was also named as Associate Director for Research on Women’s Health, NIH. Dr. Pinn came to NIH from Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C., where she had been Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology since 1982, and has previously held appointments at Tufts University and Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Pinn earned her BA from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and her MD from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1967, where she was the only woman and minority in her class. She returned to Massachusetts to complete her postgraduate training in Pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, during which time she also served as Teaching Fellow at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Pinn is a member of long standing in many professional and scientific organizations, in which she has held many positions of leadership. She also served as the 88th President of the National Medical Association (and second woman President). Dr. Pinn has received numerous honors, awards, and recognitions, and has been granted seven Honorary Degrees of Laws and Science since 1992.

Links:
Office of Research on Women’s Health
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Making a Difference – Dr. Vivian Pinn

August 9, 2003
Show 113
Guest, Dr. Faye Grimsley

Faye Grimsley, Ph.D., CIH, has a joint faculty appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Xavier University of Louisiana and also as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

Dr. Grimsley is a certified industrial hygienist (CIH) with more than 10 years of experience. She has a BS in Microbiology from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, an MSPH in Industrial Hygiene from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and a PhD in Environmental and Industrial Hygiene from the University of Cincinnati. Prior to pursuing her doctoral studies, Dr. Grimsley worked in private industry for seven years. She spent four years with Texaco Inc. as an industrial hygienist and three years with International Paper as a senior process industrial hygienist. Dr. Grimsley’s research interests include indoor air quality, bioaerosols, and exposure assessment, with a particular interest in exposure characterization and control of indoor allergens, bacteria, mold, and the toxins they produce.

Links:
Tulane Environmental Health Sciences Department
Dr. Grimsley’s Tulane EHS Home Page
Tulane University

August 23, 2003
Show 114
Guest, Dr. Georgia Dunston

Georgia M. Dunston, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology at the Howard University College of Medicine. She is also the founding director of the National Human Genome Center (NHGC), and established the Human Immunogenetics Laboratory, both at Howard University.

Dr. Dunston’s research on human genome variation in disease susceptibility has been the vanguard of current efforts at Howard University to build national and international research collaboration focusing on the genetics of diseases common in African Americans and other people of the African Diaspora. As founding director of the NHGC, Dr. Dunston has been instrumental in utilizing multicultural perspectives and resources to understand the knowledge gained from the Human Genome Project and research on human genome variation. Dr. Dunston has served on the National Advisory Council for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; the Genetic Basis of Disease Review Committee for the National Institute of General Medical Sciences; and the National Academy of Sciences Review Committee on Human Genome Diversity Project. She received her BS in Biology from Norfolk State University, her MS in Biology at Tuskegee and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Dunston conducted her Postdoctoral work at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD.

Links:
Howard University
The National Human Genome Center



September 6, 2003
Show 115
Guest, Dr. Yolanda T. Moses

At the time of her interview, Dr. Yolanda T. Moses served as President of the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), a Washington, D.C.-based higher education membership association composed of faculty, administrators, and graduate students. Prior to her position at AAHE, Dr. Moses served as President of The City College of New York (CCNY) from 1993 to 1999. Dr. Moses came to CCNY from California State University, Dominguez Hills, where she was Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Anthropology, a position she had held since 1988. From 1982 to 1988 she was Dean of the College of the Arts and Professor of Social Science (Anthropology) at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. In 1995 Dr. Moses was elected President of the American Anthropological Association, the world’s largest association of anthropologists, with over 11,000 members. She was the first African-American President in the AAA’s 93-year history. Her writing, research, and lecturing in this area have taken her to New Zealand, Japan, India, Western Europe, and South Africa.

Dr. Moses received her A.A. degree from San Bernardino Valley College in 1966, and her bachelor's degree in Sociology with highest honors from California State College, San Bernardino, in 1968. She earned both her master's and doctorate with highest honors in Anthropology from the University of California at Riverside in 1976, and later received the University's Distinguished Alumnus Award.

Links:
American Association for Higher Education

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