Contributors
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Richard B. Alley is the Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at The Pennsylvania State University. He was a member of the team of earth scientists who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with Vice President Al Gore. He chaired the National Research Council on Abrupt Climate Change. In 2005 he was the first recipient of the Louis Agassiz Medal for “outstanding and sustained contribution to glaciology and effective communication of important scientific issues in the public policy arena.” Alley received the Seligman Crystal in 2005 for his research on the stability of the Antarctic. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008 and elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.
Jeanne Fahnestock is emeritus professor of rhetoric at the University of Maryland. She received the 2012 Book Award from the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) for Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion. She is a fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America. She is also the author of Rhetorical Figures in Science and of A Rhetoric of Argument.
Richard Fliegel has published seven detective novels with Bantam and Pocket Books and short stories in collections. A Minyan for the Dead was nominated for a Shamus Award by the Private Eye Writers of America. A member of the WGA West, he has written for Star Trek and ABC network television. He serves as associate dean for undergraduate programs in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California.
David J. Helfand is president and vice-chancellor of Quest University, Canada. He is professor of Astronomy (on leave) at Columbia University and president of the American Astronomical Society. He has served as the Sackler Distinguished Visiting Astronomer at the University of Cambridge. He developed the Frontiers of Science course for the Columbia University Core Curriculum. [End Page vii]
Donald Kennedy is president emeritus of Stanford University and past editor-in-chief of Science, the magazine of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served as the commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration. He was awarded the 2010 Wonderfest Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.
Steven L. Lamy is professor of international relations and vice dean for academic programs in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences of the University of Southern California. He has served as co-director of the school’s Pew Initiative in Diplomatic Training and as a special consultant for international affairs education for the Danforth Foundation. Lamy was an instructor in the Pew Initiative Diplomatic Training Faculty Fellows Program at the JFK School of Government at Harvard University from 1990–1994 and is a member of the Social Science Research Council Committee on Religion and International Affairs.
Andrew F. Read is director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, distinguished professor of the Eberly College of Science, alumni professor in the biological sciences, and professor of entomology at The Pennsylvania State University. He was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012, received a fellowship from Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2003, and has received the Scientific Medal and the Thomas Henry Huxley Award of the Zoological Society of London, and the Young Investigator Award of the American Society of Naturalists.
Ann O. Watters has taught English for thirty years, the last twenty-two at Stanford University in the English department and the first year writing program, now the program in writing and rhetoric. In the writing program from 1988 to 1995 she served as director and associate director, co-teaching the graduate pedagogy workshops and supervising graduate teaching fellows; she also developed the computers and writing program and the community service writing project. Watters also teaches in the School of Medicine as an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco. Her books include Global Exchange: Reading and Writing in a World Context and Writing for Change: A Community Reader.
Edward O. Wilson has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. He is a member of the National Academy of...
