Fellows

Joel J. Mintzes, Lead Fellow Joel J. Mintzes is Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and Adjunct Professor of Science Education at North Carolina State University. His research group investigates problems of conceptual development and cognitive processes in biology. In addition to his recently edited books (with James H. Wandersee and Joseph D. Novak), Teaching Science for Understanding: A Human Constructivist View, and Assessing Science Understanding: A Human Constructivist View (San Diego: Academic Press), he served as Director of Research of The Private Universe Project at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Dr. Mintzes has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including Science Education and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching. He has taught majors and non-majors courses in introductory biology for 25 years. email: mintzes@uncwil.edu

Eileen Lewis Eileen Lewis, Professor of Chemistry, Cañada College (California). Her background and research is in Chemistry and Cognition. Research interests include conceptual change in students' understanding of science, longitudinal changes in science understanding, curricular designs that support knowledge integration, and conceptual frameworks and chemistry problem-solving. Currently on leave from Cañada College, she is serving as lecturer in the Chemistry Department at the University of California, Berkeley where she also works for the ModularCHEM Consortium. She is a NISE Fellow on the FLAG (Field Tested Learning Assessment Guide) team. email: eileen@socrates.berkeley.edu

Mike Zeilik Michael Zeilik is a Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy at the University of New Mexico. In his teaching, he specializes in introductory courses for the novice, non-science major student; over 10,000 students have taken his courses. Dr. Zeilik has authored four books used internationally: Astronomy: The Evolving Universe (9th edition, Cambridge University Press, 2002), Astronomy: The Cosmic Perspective with J. Gaustad (2nd edition, Wiley, 1990), Conceptual Astronomy (1st edition, Wiley, 1993), and Introductory Astronomy and Astrophysics with S. Gregory (4th edition, Saunders, 1998). The 8th edition of Evolving Universe won a 1997 Texty Award in college physical sciences from the Text and Academic Authors Association; the 9th edition won a 2003 Texty. In 2002, the American Astronomical Society awarded him its Astronomy Education Prize. In 2003, he was awarded the Excellence in Introductory College Physics prize of the American Association of Physics Teachers. email: zeilik@la.unm.edu