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About the presenters

Nick Sippl-Swezey

Nick Sippl-Swezey coordinates with high school to undergraduate educators to explore epidemiology, disease transmissions, outbreaks, and health interventions with Nova. He also works with University of California, San Francisco using Nova for clinical trial planning and infectious disease research.

 

 

Nancy Darling

Nancy Darling is Professor of Psychology at Oberlin College. For the past 25 years, she has studied how adolescents shape and are shaped by their social relationships. She has authored more than 50 scientific papers on teens' relationships with parents, friends, romantic partners, and unrelated adults and has studied families in the US, Chile, the Philippines, Italy, and Japan.

Eric Gaze

Eric Gaze directs the Quantitative Reasoning (QR) program at Bowdoin College and is a Lecturer in the Mathematics Department. He is the current President of the National Numeracy Network (NNN 2013 – 2015). Eric has given talks and led workshops on the topics of QR course development and assessment. He is the Principal Investigator for a NSF TUES Type I grant (2012-14) and Quantitative Literacy and Reasoning Assessment (QLRA) DUE 1140562, and has a QR textbook published with Pearson, Thinking Quantitatively: Communicating with Numbers. Prior to coming to Bowdoin, Eric led the development of a Masters in Numeracy program for K-12 teachers at Alfred University as an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Education. 

Wayne Getz

Wayne Getz is a computational population biologist and biomathematician using Nova to explore movement and behavior in epidemiology, conservation, and wildlife. He applies Nova in courses and in advising graduate and postdoctoral researchers at University of California Berkeley as the A. Starker Leopold Professor of Wildlife Ecology.

 

Richard M. Salter

Richard Salter Professor of Computer Science at Oberlin College and is the architect of Nova working to improve Nova in response to research and education needs. 

Anthony M. Starfield

Tony Starfield is Professor Emeritus of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota. He is retired but still thinks about modeling methodology and how to teach it.  He has worked in both engineering and conservation biology and has taught modeling to professors, practicing scientists, graduate students and undergraduates across the curriculum.

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