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(Co-Leads) Dr. V. Celeste Carter (NSF), Dr. Duncan McBride (NSF), and Mr. Bill Valdez (DOE)
Dr. Duncan E. McBride
Program Director
Division of Undergraduate Education
National Science Foundation
Duncan McBride iscurrently Program Director and Section Head in the Division of UndergraduateEducation, National Science Foundation. He oversees a group of projects and centers in the AdvancedTechnological Education (ATE) program, including a national center inbiotechnology education and a regional center in biomanufacturingeducation. He is part of theleadership in planning for a small conference on the future of biotechnologytechnician education in April 2008. In addition to serving as a Program Officer in ATE, he administers theNSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM)program, and he is a Program Officer in the Course, Curriculum, and LaboratoryImprovement (CCLI) program.
Before coming toNSF he was a department chair at Kenyon College (Ohio) and previously a facultymember at Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania). He has held visiting research positions at the University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara; IBM, San Jose, California; the University of Paris;and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He is a Councilor in the Council onUndergraduate Research and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Duncan McBridereceived a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and hisundergraduate degree from Carleton College (Minnesota).
Dr.V. Celeste Carter
ProgramDirector
Divisionof Undergraduate Education
National Science Foundation
Celeste Carter is Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education, NationalScience Foundation. She is at NSF on leave from her position as Director of theBiotechnology Program at Foothill College (California). At NSF she overseesprojects in biotechnology in the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) programand is part of the leadership in planning for a small conference on the futureof biotechnology technician education in April 2008. She is also a ProgramOfficer in three other undergraduate programs at NSF: Course, Curriculum, andLaboratory Improvement (CCLI); Scholarships in Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM); and The Robert Noyce ScholarshipProgram. She had previously served for two years in a similar position at NSF,and she was Acting Lead Program Director for the ATE program during some ofthat time.
Dr. Carter received a Ph.D. in microbiologyfrom the Pennsylvania State University School of Medicine, a Master's degree inmicrobiology and molecular genetics from Harvard University, and herundergraduate degree in bacteriology and immunology from the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley.
