Bruce Alberts – Festival PI
Bruce Alberts, professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, served two six-year terms as president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) from 1993 to 2005. During his tenure at NAS, Alberts was instrumental in developing the landmark National Science Education standards that have been implemented in school systems nationwide. Currently, Alberts serves as the editor-in-chief of the journal Science. He is also noted as one of the original authors of The Molecular Biology of the Cell, a preeminent textbook in the field now in its fifth edition.
Alberts has earned many honors and awards, including 16 honorary degrees. He serves on the advisory boards of more than 25 nonprofit institutions. He is a trustee of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, a member of the Advisory Board of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a past president of the American Society of Cell Biology. He is widely recognized for his work in the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology.
From 2000 to 2009, Alberts was co-chair of the InterAcademy Council, an advisory institution in Amsterdam governed by the presidents of 15 science academies from around the world.
Dr. Alberts serves as a co-principal investigator on the NSF grant that initially seeded the Bay Area Science Festival.
Katherine Nielsen, Co-Director, UCSF Science & Health Education Partnership (SEP)
katherine.nielsen at ucsf.edu
Katherine has spent more than 10 years at SEP: she coordinated Triad, a gender equity in science program, at SEP from 1995 to 1997, returned to SEP in 2001, and became Co-Director in 2005. She has experience in both the education and scientific fields, having taught science at the middle and high school, community college, and undergraduate level; conducted research in developmental neurobiology; and completed a Masters Degree in Education from Stanford University and one in Biological Sciences from Montana State University. She has served as PI or Co-PI on awards addressing professional development, partnership, and diversity issues from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, National Institutes of Health, California Science Project, and others. She is a co-author of Girls in Science: A Framework for Action (NSTA Press) and recently led a collaborative effort to draft a book on science education partnerships.
Katherine serves as an adviser on the science festival project, regularly overseeing day to day decisions.
Kishore Hari, Bay Area Science Festival Director
Kishore Hari joined SEP in November 2009, bringing an interest in engaging public audiences in science discussion. In 2007, he founded Down to a Science, a San Francisco based science cafe, to create social dialogues fueled by scientific research. Building on its success, Kishore started BayAreaScience.org, a web portal to all of the various science institutions and events throughout the Bay Area.
Kishore is available 24 x7 for all your science festival needs.
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