Diana Duckworth - biographical information will be provided at a later time.
Kim Geier earned her master's of life science from the University of Maryland and a bachelor of science in biology from The College of William and Mary. She teaches honors biology I and II at Brookville High School in Campbell County. She has been involved with Governor's School for the past ten years as a lab assistant or teacher of the anatomy course.
Kristin Harris, president of Kristin Harris Design, Inc., has been providing broadcast, corporate, and federal clients with a wide range of design services for the past sixteen years. Her studio services include animation, motion graphics, illustration, print, and web design. She specializes in producing and animating educational media for children and has created more than fifty short form animations for children. HBO Family/HBOL is broadcasting forty of her interstitials, and her work has been included in numerous film festivals all over the country. She is a member of Women in Film & Video DC, ITVA DC, and Women in Children's Media. She teaches in the art program at Lynchburg College and has taught at Northern Virginia Community College and the Art Institute of Washington. She received a B.A. in fine arts from U.C.L.A. and an M.F.A. from The George Washington University.
Kevin Peterson has been in Lynchburg College's math program as an associate professor of mathematics since August 2000 and is currently the program coordinator. He received his B.S. in mathematics from the University of Central Florida and an M.S. and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Florida. His field is combinatorial rigidity. His mathematical interests include graph theory, combinatorics, and number theory. He also enjoys spending time with his family in outdoor activities.
Rebecca Rossis the instructor for the class, "Brave New World - Understanding Your Genetic Future." She holds a B.S. in biology and chemistry from Mary Washington, a Master's from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. She has taken post-graduate courses in Hawaii and at the University of Virginia, N.C. State, and Catholic University. She has studied genetics and biotechnology at the University of Kansas Medical School, Rochester Medical School, Princeton University (as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 2001), and with the Biotech Center of Cold Spring Harbour, New York, in 2008. She was a field tester for the book, Shoestring Biotechnology, published in 2002 by NABT, and a reviewer for the book, Recombinant DNA and Biotechnologyby Massey and Kreuzer. Dr. Ross has won numerous awards, such as the Tandy Award, the Outstanding Biology Teacher Award by NABT, the VAST Biology Teacher Award, and the Virginia Academy of Science Award for work with students on research projects. She has served as president of the Virginia Association of Science Teachers, the OBTA director for Virginia, NABT regional director, and president of the National Association of Biology Teachers in 2005. She has taught biology, anatomy, and physiology at Ferrum College, Virginia Western Community College, University of Virginia, Cave Spring High School, and Radford University. She was director of educational outreach for the Fralin Biotechnology Center at Virginia Tech for six years. During those six years she organized more than 175 workshops for high school and community college teachers on biotechnology, set up the first biotech equipment trunks to be lent to teachers to do labs, and organized and ran the Biotech 2001 Regional Conference for years. She has taught at the Summer Residential Governor's School at Lynchburg College for seven years.
Gwen Sibert has been teaching at the Roanoke Valley Governor's School for Science and Technology for the past twenty-one years. She graduated from Jacksonville State University in Alabama with a B.A. in chemistry and biology and received her M.A.L.S. from Hollins University, with a concentration in science. In her forty years of teaching, she has been involved in many research opportunities. She has received Dreyfus and NSF grants to carry out original research in inorganic chemistry at Hollins University in 1991, at the University of Rochester in 1992, and at Virginia Tech in 1994. She also received an ASBMB Fellowship to carry out research on the superoxide dismutase enzyme in the biochemistry department of Virginia Tech in 1993, and she spent the summer of 1998 at the Almaden-IBM Research Center in San Jose, Ca., working with polyamide films. She was a part of the Virginia Tech Chemistry Hypermedia Project (1994-96), which resulted in having most of the material for the courses she teaches being placed on the Virginia Tech chemistry web server. Her latest adventure has been teaching environmental chemistry at the Summer Residential Governor's School at Lynchburg College during the summers of 2001-2008.
Ms. Sibert has been married for forty-seven years. Her hobbies including "stamping," reading murder mysteries, reading and sending e-mail, and working on her web pages. She enjoys listening to classical music, jazz, and "oldies" music. She also thinks that chemistry is the ultimate subject to study.
Bob Powers has been teaching for eleven years at Cave Spring High School in Roanoke, Virginia. He has several degrees from Virginia Tech -- undergraduate degrees in math, computer science, and history and a master's in education. He is currently pursuing an Ed.S. in instructional technology at Virginia Tech. Mr. Powers is the debate, scholastic bowl, and chess coach at Cave Spring High School.
Brooke Haiar is an assistant professor of environmental science at Lynchburg College. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in geology from Virginia Tech and her Ph.D. in geology and paleontology from the University of Oklahoma in the summer of 2008. Her research focuses on the paleoecology of the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous formations of western North America, including the vertebrate fauna as well as the flora.
Steve Smith has been in Lynchburg College's Health and Physical Education program as an assistant professor of health and physical education since August, 2003 and is currently the program coordinator for the Lifetime Fitness and Wellness General Education Course. He received both his B.S. in health and physical education and his M.Ed. in curriculum and instruction from Lynchburg College. He is currently finishing his doctoral degree in motor learning from the University of Virginia. His primary academic fields are motor learning, sport and exercise psychology, and strength and conditioning. His academic interests include functional strength training, human motor development, self-efficacy, phenylketonuria, and talent selection in sports. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Coach Smith serves as the strength and conditioning coach for the cross country and track and field programs and as the assistant golf coach. Prior to that he served as the assistant baseball coach at Lynchburg College for seven years. He enjoys spending time with his family, lifting weights, golfing, and mountain biking.
Terry Wilsonhas been teaching geology and astronomy classes for the Governor's School for many years. He is also a long-standing science teacher in Lynchburg City Schools. He received his B.S. from the University of Tennessee in 1972 and his M.S. from the University of Virginia in 1978. He is a veteran of the U.S. Army. His interests include geology, astronomy, and chess.