Faculty PIs and Project Team Participants
Dr. Andrew Waldron is a Professor of Mathematics and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Matters at U.C. Davis. He is also a researcher in String Theory and developing online lecture notes and webwork problem sets for undergraduate lower division mathematics classes.
Arnold J. Bloom became a botanist through a circuitous route. Upon receiving an undergraduate degree in Physics from Yale University, he spent several years developing computer models of the spread of air pollution over cities in the USA and Germany. He received a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University, where he also completed a two-semester course in Environmental Legislation at the Law School. He conducted postdoctoral research on the temperature responses of plants at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. For the last thirty years, he has been on the faculty of the University of California at Davis. His publications range from major reviews on the economics of resource allocation in plants to the future of agriculture under rising carbon dioxide levels. He has coauthored textbooks on Plant Physiology and Plant Mineral Nutrition. The book "Global Climate Change:
Convergence of Disciplines" derives from a General Education Course that he has offered for the past seven years and has grown to an enrollment of nearly three hundred students.
Brent Haddad is Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Center for Integrated Water Research at
University of California, Santa Cruz. He studies fresh water policy and economics, including urban and regional water policy, allocation of risk among customer categories, and climate change adaptation. He also studies renewable energy policy. Methodologies include game theory, case-study analysis, and contractual/property rights analysis (new institutional economics approaches). Professor Haddad is a frequent collaborator with natural scientists and engineers. His research center focuses on the integration of advanced water treatment technologies into regional water management. His degrees are in international relations (BA, MA), business and public policy
(MBA), and energy and resources (PhD). Professor Haddad has won numerous teaching awards, including UCSC’s campus-wide Excellence in Teaching Award. He has taught at all levels and all sizes of classes, including UCSC’s most highly enrolled class (at the time), Environmental Policy and Economics. Other courses taught include Fresh
Water Policy, Fresh Water Management, and numerous graduate courses on property rights and economic institutions. All his larger courses have substantial on-line components, including readings, announcements, grading, discussion boards, exams, and interactions with students, TAs, and graders.
Brian Carver is Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information where his primary research interest is in the laws and policies governing technology and information, particularly in understanding the technical, economic, social, and legal frameworks that best promote progress and access to information. Brian received his J.D. from the
UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and was previously in private practice focused on copyright, trade secret, and trademark litigation. Each fall Brian teaches Intellectual Property for the Information Industries and each spring he teaches Cyberlaw. During Spring 2010 he taught a new course entitled Commons-based Peer Production, a project-based course in which students studied the history and theory of computer-network-enabled commonsbased peer production and analyzed and contributed to some self-selected phenomena of peer production. Since
2009 students in his courses have been assigned to author and edit Wikipedia articles on subjects related to their coursework. In the Spring of 2011, he was named a Wikipedia Teaching Fellow by the Wikimedia Foundation in recognition of his participation in their United States Public Policy Project in which they seek to engage University faculty in leading their students to make positive contributions to Wikipedia through their coursework.

Dan Garcia is a Lecturer SOE in the Computer Science Division of the EECS Department at the University of
California, Berkeley, and joined the Cal faculty in the fall of 2000. Dan received his PhD and MS in Computer
Science from UC Berkeley in 2000 and 1995, and dual BS degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990. He has won all four of the department's teaching awards:
• the CS outstanding graduate student instructor award in 1992.
• the EECS outstanding graduate student instructor award in 1998,
• the Diane S. McEntyre Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2002, and
• the Information Technology Faculty Award for Excellence in
• Undergraduate Teaching in 2004
He was also chosen as a UC Berkeley "Unsung Hero" in 2005. He recently earned the highest teaching effectiveness ratings (6.7/7) in the history of the department's lower-division introductory courses. He is active in SIGCSE and is currently working with the Ensemble computing portal project. He serves on the ACM Education Board, the
Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles Advisory Board, and is the faculty co-director for BFOIT, a
Berkeley outreach effort.
David Pan is Associate Professor of German at UC Irvine and the Director of the UCI Humanities Core Course. He has chaired UCI’s Council on Education Policy and currently serves on this committee as well as the UCEAP
Governing Board. Before coming to UCI, he worked as a management consultant at McKinsey and Company and taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford University, and Penn State University. He specializes in 18th to early 20th century German literature and the relation between aesthetics and politics. He is the author of
Primitive Renaissance: Rethinking German Expressionism (U of Nebraska P, 2001) and the forthcoming Sacrifice in the Modern World: On the Particularity and Generality of Nazi Myth (Northwestern UP). He has also published on
J. G. Herder, Heinrich von Kleist, Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Juenger, Bertolt Brecht,
Carl Schmitt, and Theodor Adorno. He serves as the book review editor of Telos.
Eric Potma obtained his PhD in 2001 from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University from 2001 till 2005. Since 2005, Eric Potma is an assistant professor at the
University of California, Irvine (UCI), where he teaches chemistry and conducts research. His research interests are in the field of biophysics and optics. Potma has taught extensively at the undergraduate level, where his focus is on teaching and improving several courses in the General Chemistry series at UCI.
Frank Vahid is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Riverside, and Associate Director of the
Center for Embedded Computer Systems at UC Irvine. He has authored over 140 conference and journal publications, and a graduate textbook and three undergraduate textbooks on embedded/digital systems design and programming including an e-book with a virtual lab. He has received several outstanding teacher awards while at UCR. He has consulted for companies including Motorola, NEC, AMCC, Atmel, and Cardinal Health, and holds three U.S. patents. His research has been supported by the NSF, the Semiconductor Research Corporation, Philips,
Motorola, Xilinx, Intel, TriMedia, NEC, and the Dept. of Education. His current research includes developing a framework for people to set up customized camera/sensor-based home monitoring and automated notification systems to assist the aging and the vision/hearing impaired, and developing digital mockups of human physiology to assist in the design and testing of medical equipment. He received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from the
Univ. of Illinois Urbana/Champaign and M.S./Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Irvine.
Greg Niemeyer is Associate Professor at the Department of Art Practice, and the Center for New Media, UC
Berkeley. Prof. Niemeyer is an artist, inventor focusing on the critical analysis of the impact of new media on human experiences. His creative work focuses on the mediation between humans as individuals and humans as a collective through technological means, and emphasizes playful responses to technology.

Ivo D. Dinov is a UCLA associate professor of statistics, the Chief Operations Officer of the Center for
Computational Biology (www.CCB.ucla.edu), the Director of the Statistics Online Computational Resource
(www.SOCR.ucla.edu), and PI of the Distributome Project (www.Distributome.org). Dr. Dinov received a 2007
World Wide Web Gold Award™ and was awarded the 2008 IEEE Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image
Analysis (MMBIA) Best Paper Award. The focus of his research spans statistical computing, statistics education, mathematical modeling, human brain mapping and computational neuroscience.
Jacqueline Shea Murphy is Associate Professor in UC Riverside’s renowned program in Critical Dance Studies, where she has taught since 1998. She holds a Ph.D. in English from UC Berkeley, a Master’s in fiction from The
Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars Program, and a BA from Barnard College, and is a longtime teacher and practitioner of Iyengar yoga. She is author of “The People Have Never Stopped Dancing”: Native American Modern
Dance Histories (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), awarded the 2008 De la Torre Bueno Prize by the Society of
Dance History Scholars (SDHS); co-editor of the collection Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance
(Rutgers University Press, 1995); and has published in numerous journals and collections. She was the 2009 recipient of a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to Aotearoa New Zealand, where she studied with renowned contemporary Maori choreographers and dance leaders, and is currently developing a new book project that looks at ways that contemporary Indigenous choreographers in the U.S., Canada, and Aotearoa are inhabiting Indigenous epistemologies in their dance making as a tool for revitalizing Indigenous knowledge systems.
James R. Carey is Professor and the former Vice-Chair in the Department of Entomology at the University of
California, Davis with research interests in insect demography, mortality dynamics, healthspan and aging. He received his BS and MS degrees from Iowa State University (1973; 1975) and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (1980). He is a senior scholar at the Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging at UC Berkeley as well as a member of the AAAS, Population Association of America, International Union for the Scientific Study of Populations, the
Gerontological Society of America, and the Entomological Society of America. He is the author of three books including “ Demography for Biologists (Oxford University Press 1993), Longevity (Princeton University Press, 2003), and Longevity Records: Life Spans of Mammals, Birds, Amphibians and Reptiles (Odense, 2000) and over 200 scientific publications on insect demography and aging. Professor Carey teaches two courses at UC Davis including a 4-cr course on the biology and demography of aging titled ‘ Longevity’ with an annual enrollment of over 200 students and a lower division 4-cr GE course through the Science and Society program titled ‘ Terrorism and War’ with an annual enrollment of up to 300 students.
John F. Kihlstrom is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also member of the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Institute of Personality and Social Research; he has also served as Director of the undergraduate interdisciplinary major in Cognitive Science. A cognitive, social psychologist with clinical training and interests, Kihlstrom took his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in
1975. He taught at Harvard, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Yale before coming to Berkeley in 1996. He has taught the introductory psychology course regularly since 1980. An online version of the course, prepared for UC Berkeley
Extension, launched in Summer 2010; it forms the basis of the proposed course for the Online Instruction Pilot
Project. URL: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~kihlstrm
Jutta Heckhausen grew up in Germany and did her graduate work and Ph.D. at the University of Strathclyde in
Glasgow, Scotland where she studied the way in which infants' development is promoted by interaction and joint activities with their mothers. From 1984 to 2000 she worked first as postdoc and then as Basic Research Scientist at the Center for Life-Span Psychology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development in Berlin, and expanded her research area to include development in adulthood and old age, particularly the role of the

individual in regulating development across the life span. In 1995/96, Dr. Heckhaussen was a fellow at the Center for Social and Behavioral Science at Stanford. In 2000, she joined the Department of Psychology and Social
Behavior at UC Irvine and served as Chair of the Academic Senate, Irvine Division in 2008-09. Her research examines how individuals influence their own development by engaging with goals when opportunities are favorable and disengaging from goals when opportunities become scarce. Individuals differ in whether or not they match opportunity changes with changes in goal engagement and control strategies and this individual difference has important effects on both objective and subjective outcomes of development. This approach can be applied to many life-course settings that require the engagement with goals, the adjustment of motivational strivings, and the disengagement from futile goal commitments. In her own and through her collaborative work, Dr. Heckhausen has focused on the transition to adulthood, on older adults, particularly those challenged by major acute or chronic health problems, and on adults at various ages who are confronted with major socioeconomic challenges associated with globalization-related social change. Her undergraduate and graduate teaching is in the areas of life-span development and motivational psychology.
Karen J. Lunsford is the Associate Professor of Writing at UC-Santa Barbara. She specializes in writing studies, argumentation, science writing, writing in the disciplines, and digital forms of publication. Her research can be found in Kairos: A Journal for Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy; Writing Across the Disciplines; CCC: College
Composition and Communication; and Written Communication. Recently, she has worked on GauchoSpace, a
Moodle-based learning management system for the UCSB campus. In addition, she has compared hybrid versions of upper-division writing courses with their f2f counterparts. She is an active participant in the field of Computers
& Writing.
Kathleen Bawn is Associate Professor of Political Science at UCLA. She is interested in theoretical problems involving coalitions, how rules and institutions affect the formation of coalitions, and how the nature of coalitions affects policy decisions. Her recent work focuses primarily on political parties: specifically on differences between coalitions composed of a large number of small parties and those composed of a small number of large parties.
Her work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and other academic journals. Her teaching interests include game theory, collective choice theory and quantitative methods.
Dr. Keith C. Clarke is a research cartographer and professor, with the M.A. and Ph. D. from the University of
Michigan, specializing in Analytical Cartography. His most recent research has been on environmental simulation modeling, on modeling urban growth using cellular automata, on terrain mapping and analysis, and on real-time visualization. He is the author of three textbooks in eight editions, and over a hundred and fifty book chapters, journal articles, and papers in the fields of cartography, remote sensing, and geographic information systems.
Chair of the National Academy of Sciences Mapping Sciences Committee from 2004-2010, Dr. Clarke recently chaired National Research Council studies on the National Map and on the National Geospatial Intelligence
Agency, and served on the USGS Geography Discipline long term science planning team, for which he received the
USGS's John Wesley Powell Award in 2005. He currently serves on the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources for the National Academies, and on National Geographic Society’s Committee on Research and Exploration.
Mark G. Kubinec is currently the Director of the Digital Chemistry Project for the Chemistry Department at UC
Berkeley. The Digital Chemistry projects aims to provide a quality, interactive chemistry course that enhances chemistry instruction at UC Berkeley and is also freely and openly available online. Dr. Kubinec is the primary author of online content for the project. He is the recipient of a variety of distinguished teaching awards for excellence and innovation in the classroom and online. Dr. Kubinec received bachelor of science degrees in
Biochemistry and Chemistry from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of

California, Berkeley. In addition to chemical education, Dr. Kubinec’s research interests are in applications of
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy including molecular structure and function, materials analysis, and quantum computing.
Michael Dennin is a Professor of Physics at UC Irvine and current chair of the UC Irvine Committee on Educational
Policy. He has also served as chair on the UC Irvine Committee on Courses. As chair of Committee on Courses, he initiated the UC Irvine pilot project in online courses that has run during summer session for the last few years. He was also the first instructor for an online course in that pilot program. He has taught two online courses: one a general science course for non-majors and one sophomore level mathematics course for physics majors only. He has also been involved in a number of pedagogical reforms in introductory physics at UC Irvine. His research includes the study of foam – or why a collection of fluid can behave like a solid – and monolayers of surfactant molecules at the air-water interface – or why dust gets across your lungs and into your blood stream.
Dr. Nate Titterton is an educational researcher in Berkeley's EECS department, specializing in interactive tools and innovative online curriculum in, especially, lower division and high-school computer science courses. He works with Michael Clancy, a lecturer in EECS and a leader in CS education research, on "lab-centric instruction", where lecture courses are transformed through emphasis on supervised, collaborative lab work in which extensive feedback is given to both student and instructor. Dr. Titterton led the effort to develop an online AP Computer
Science course for UCOP using these principles, utilizing a new web-based learning environment and programming tools, and integrating high-quality multimedia and project-based activities. Dr. Titterton has also served as an evaluator on several projects, has a MA in statistics, and did dissertation work on statistical reasoning.
Paul Kube received his S.B. degree in 1979 from M.I.T., and his Ph.D. from U. C. Berkeley in 1988, both in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science. Since 1988 he has been on the faculty of the Computer Science and
Engineering department of the U. C. San Diego. He has served as that department's Vice Chair for Undergraduate
Affairs, and is currently Chair of the campuswide Teaching Development Advisory Committee. His research interests include machine learning, computer vision and pattern recognition, and computer science education.
Philip Collins expertise is in the electronic properties of nanoscale materials, particularly carbon nanotubes. His research establishes methods of building circuitry at the molecular scale, within the general field known as nanotechnology. Prof. Collins teaches a wide range of courses at UCI, including an introductory science course that has been offered in both classroom and online versions. Since joining the UC Irvine Physics Department in 2002, he has been awarded an NSF CAREER research award and multiple campus teaching awards. He is also co-PI on multiple initiatives (REU, GAANN, IGERT) designed to improve student training in emerging fields of science.
Before arriving at UCI, Professor Collins experienced both ends of the industrial spectrum, having worked at IBM’s
T. J. Watson Research Center, as well as at Nanomix, a nanotechnology startup company. Professor Collins received B.S. degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a
Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley. He has also worked at Pasadena High School as a charter corps member of Teach for America.
Rita Blaik is a graduate student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UCLA. Rita received her
B.S. in Mateials Science and Engineering from the University of California at Irvine, where she participated in many diverse research fields such as metallurgy and thermal effects, bio-ceramics, and tissue engineering. She also helped co-found UCI MatSci, a student chapter of the nationally recognized society Material Advantage, which began an outreach program to local high school students. At UCLA she is a proud fellow of the IGERT Clean Energy for Green Industry fellowship and works with professor Bruce Dunn on biological fuel cell systems and

architectures. She also has a continuing interest in the issues of technology and society and has been actively involved in the Art Sci center as an instructor in the NanoLab Summer Institute.
Robert J. Blake (Ph.D.University of Texas, Austin) is Professor of Spanish at UC Davis and founding Director of the
UC Consortium for Language Learning & Teaching (http://uccllt.ucdavis.edu). He has published widely in the fields of Spanish linguistics, second language acquisition, and computer-assisted language learning. He co-authored
Tesoros Online , a multimedia program for introductory Spanish (http://www.tesoros.es), which forms the basis for a distance-learning course given through the UCDavis Extension and the main campus in a hybrid format. He has also co-authored Al corriente: Curso intermedio de español , 4th Edition (McGraw-Hill Companies). He was the project manager for the online course “Arabic Without Walls” presently taught through UC Irvine and the UCI
Extension. He recently published Brave New Digital Classrooms: Technology and Foreign Language Learning
(Georgetown University Press, 2008). In May of 2004, Prof. Blake was inducted into the North American Academy for the Spanish Language, making him a corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy as well.
Roger B. McDonald, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Nutrition
University of California, Davis
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Southern California, Exercise Biology
M.A.., San Diego State University, Exercise Physiology
B.A., San Diego State University, Physical Education
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor, Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, 2000-present
Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, 1994-2000
Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, 1988 -1994
CURRENT TEACHING
1985-Present: Introduction to Nutrition and Metabolism (undergraduate; major; enrollment = 500) . This is a completely on-line course
1995-Present: Nutrition and Aging (undergraduate; major; enrollment = 175)
REARCH AREA
Mechanisms of cellular aging and the interaction between nutrition and aging.
Sam Mchombo received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of London in 1978. He held an appointment as a Senior Lecturer in Chichewa and Linguistics at the University of Malawi in East Africa, where he pioneered the
Department of African Languages and Linguistics. In 1984, he traveled to the United States under the auspices of the Fulbright Foundation as a Visiting Scholar at MIT and Stanford University. In the fall of that year, he held an appointment as a postdoctoral fellow at MIT sponsored by the Systems Development Foundation. From January
1985 through summer 1988, he held appointment as Lecturer in Linguistics at San José State University. In the summer of 1988, he joined the faculty of the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His

research has centered on the morphological and syntactic structure of Bantu languages of Africa and the relevance of that to the formalization of grammatical theory. Beginning with work done for his doctoral degree and pursued in subsequent publications he has been involved in advancing a lexical theory of grammar and has played a major role in advancing work on the theory of Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG). He has conducted research into the syntax and semantics of reciprocal constructions in Bantu languages as part of his investigation of the logical structure of Bantu languages, and of the relation between morpho-syntax and semantics. His recent research has focused on interactions between grammatical and information structure. His other publications have dealt with aspects of political developments in Southern Africa, on sports and development, as well as on soccer, national identity, and globalization. He has written on a wide range of topics, including papers on the democratic transition in Malawi, the role of the media in fostering democracy in Southern Africa, the role of women in building democracy, religion and politics in Malawi, as well as on issues of national identity and the politics of language in
Southern Africa. He is involved with his local community as a soccer referee for youth and adults. In 2003 he was appointed as the Institute for African Development Distinguished African Scholar for Spring 2003, at Cornell
University.
Dr. Sarah Eichhorn is the Assistant Vice Chair of Undergraduate Studies in the UC Irvine Mathematics Department.
She got her PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Arizona in 2004. Her research is in elasticity theory and applications to planetary physics. Within the UCI Mathematics Department, Eichhorn oversees the undergraduate curriculum, coordinates the calculus courses, advises mathematics majors and runs an NSF support lower division undergraduate research program in Computational Applied Mathematics (iCAMP).
Shlomo Dubnov graduated from the Jerusalem Music Academy in composition and holds a doctorate in computer science from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is a graduate of the prestigious IDF Talpiot program. Prior to joining UCSD, he served as a researcher at the world-renowned Institute for Research and Coordination of
Acoustics and Music (IRCAM), in Paris, and later headed the multimedia track for the Department of
Communication Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University, in Israel. Dr. Dubnov conducted numerous research projects on advanced audio processing and retrieval, computer generated music, and other multimedia applications. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and Secretary of IEEE's Technical Committee on Computer Generated
Music. Dr. Dubnov is currently Director of the Center for Research in Entertainment and Learning at UCSD's research center, CALIT2, and teaches in the Music and Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts programs.
Susanne Lohmann is Professor of Political Science; Professor of Public Policy; Director of the Center for
Governance; and founding faculty member in the Interdepartmental Degree Program on Human Complex Systems at UCLA. Professor Lohmann received her Ph.D. in economics and political economy from Carnegie Mellon
University in 1991. She taught at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business before joining UCLA in 1993.
Professor Lohmann was John M. Olin Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in 1986-89; Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in
1989-90, also at Carnegie Mellon University; James and Doris McNamara Fellow at Stanford University in 1991-92;
John M. Olin Fellow at the University of Southern California in 1996; Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1998-99; and Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2000-01.
Professor Lohmann’s articles on collective action and central banking have appeared in American Economic
Review, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, International
Organization, and other leading social science journals. Her current research focuses on the political economy of universities, science, and higher education. Professor Lohmann is completing a book titled How Universities Think:
The Hidden Work of a Complex Institution, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. She teaches courses on “Ethics and Governance,” “Can’t We Make Moral Judgments?”, “Diversity, Disagreement, and
Democracy,” “Understanding the Public Issue Life Cycle,” “Global Environment and World Politics,” and
“Universities, the Rise of the West, and the Rise of the Rest.” Professor Lohmann is the recipient of two teaching awards.

Victoria Umanskaya is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at UC Riverside. She works and teaches graduate courses in areas of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and International Trade. At the undergraduate level she teaches Microeconomic Theory and International Trade.
Dr. Lei, Yue received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in February 2001.
She was a Visiting Assistant Professor at University of California (UC), Irvine from April to June 2001, and then at
UC Santa Barbara from September 2001 to June 2004. She was a Lecturer of Mathematics at UC Merced from July
2006 to June 2009. She started her current position, Lecturer with Potential of Security of Employment, at UC
Merced in July 2009.
Dr. Yung-Ya Lin received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in physical chemistry from National Taiwan University (advisor:
Prof. Lian-Pin Hwang), and then PhD in physical chemistry from University of California, Berkeley (advisor: Prof.
Alex Pines). He did postdoctoral research in magnetic resonance in the Department of Chemistry, Princeton
University (advisor: Prof. Warren Warren). He is now an Associate Professor of physical chemistry in the
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA. His group’s research has been focusing on channeling progress in physics, chemistry, biomedicine, materials, electronics, and mathematics into significant improvements in magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy and imaging with valuable biomedical applications. More specifically, his group is now converging theory and experiments, physical sciences and biomedicine into focuses on (i) MR molecular imaging to detect cancer at early stages, (ii) MR nano medicine to cure cancer by targeted therapy and
(iii) MR physical oncology to understand cancer mechanism. He received UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award
(2009), Young Investigator Award of European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2006), Camille and
Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award (2005), Hanson-Dow Distinguished Teaching Award (2005), NSF CAREER
Award (2004), Research Corporation Research Innovation Award (2002), UCLA Career Development Award (2002), and Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award (2001).
Staff
Angela White is an Instructional Designer in Educational Technology Services at UC Berkeley. Since September of
2008, Angela has been supporting faculty in their use of bSpace (UC Berkeley's implementation of Sakai). She leads workshops and meets with instructors for one-on-one consultations. Recently, through the Teaching Enrichment
Program, Angela has begun working with faculty to meet their teaching needs through an array of technologies in addition to bSpace. She has a personal interest in socialmedia and the use of Web 2.0 tools for personal and professional productivity and entertainment. Prior to coming to campus, Angela worked as a training specialist for seven years in the Office of the CFO at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. In addition to exploring Second Life and Tweeting about technology and HigherEd, Angela enjoys time with her 6-year-old daughter.
Artemio Cardenas is a senior analyst for the Academic Planning, Programs, and Coordination department at UCOP.
Currently he serves as staff for the UC Online Instruction Pilot Project. His background in higher education spans from student services to policy analysis. Before being employed at the UC Office of the President, he worked as a program assistant and student advisor for the McNair Scholars Program at California State University, East Bay; as a consultant for the Colorado Department of Higher Education; and as a graduate researcher at the Center for
Education Policy Analysis in Denver. His research interests include the study of tuition pricing and financial aid.
Artemio holds a master’s in public administration from the University of Colorado’s School of Public Affairs and a
BS in finance from the University of San Francisco.

Chris O'Neal is the Associate Director of the Teaching, Learning, & Technology Center at UC Irvine. Chris received his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Michigan. In addition to consulting with UCI instructors on issues of pedagogy, he runs numerous TLTC workshops, and assists the Director with TLTC programs.
His areas of expertise include science education, instructional technology, and teaching improvement. Dr. O'Neal's research is on the impact of instructor classroom behaviors on student retention in the sciences.
Christian Burke is an Instructional Media Architect in the School of Medicine at UC San Francisco where he develops technologies, media and best practices for teaching and learning. He also develops workshops and training for faculty, students and staff in teaching with technology, instructional design and storyboarding as a method to create curriculum. He's an architect by training and is currently working on short fiction.
Dr. Daniel Greenstein is Vice Provost for Academic Planning, Programs and Coordination at the University of
California Office of the President. He is responsible for systemwide academic planning and accountability and provides leadership for a variety of academic programs that are managed on a university-wide basis including the
California Digital Library, the University of California Press and several instructional programs including Education
Abroad. Dr. Greenstein began his career as a professor of history (University of Glasgow) before taking up leadership roles in the development of variety internet based academic information services. Current fascinations include: the role of online undergraduate education in the quality sector of higher education, the future of higher education, and the converging roles of university libraries, presses, and IT and academic support services. He holds degrees from the Universities of Oxford (DPhil) and Pennsylvania (MA, BA).
David G. Kay received his B.A. magna cum laude in Linguistics from UCLA in 1973 and his Juris Doctor from Loyola
Law School (Los Angeles) in 1976. He passed the 1976 bar exam and was admitted to law practice in California. In
1981, he received an M.S. in Computer Science from UCLA under Professor Gerald Popek, with a thesis entitled
Political Regulation of Electronic Funds Transfer Systems. He joined the faculty of the UCLA Computer Science
Department in 1981; in 1990, he moved to UC Irvine where he currently holds appointments in the departments of
Informatics and Computer Science. He teaches introductory computer science courses for majors and nonmajors, as well as more advanced courses in programming languages, human-computer interaction, upper division writing for computer scientists, TA training, and computer law. At the systemwide UC level, he is chair for 2010-11 of the
University Committee on Educational Policy. He received the UCLA Distinguished Lecturer Award in 1988 and the
UCI Excellence in Teaching Award in 2001. He is active nationally in the field of computer science education and has used technology to enhance his classroom teaching in many ways over nearly 30 years.
DoQuyen Tran-Taylor is a Planning Analyst for Academic Planning, Programs, and Coordination at the University of
California, Office of the President (UCOP). Her responsibilities include policy and data analysis, coordination of planning initiatives, and support of long range academic planning. She currently serves as the project manager for the UC Online Instruction Pilot Project. Before joining UCOP, DoQuyen was a student affairs professional at institutions such as UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, and San Jose State University. She has had diverse campus experiences in residential life, orientation, communications, academic advising, and commuter affairs. DoQuyen received a B.S. in Biological Sciences from UC Irvine and a M.Ed. in College Student Personnel from the University of Maryland,
College Park.
John T. Yun is an associate professor in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California,
Santa Barbara (UCSB) and director of both the University of California Educational Evaluation Center (UCEC) and the Center for Educational Leadership and Effective Schools (CELES). His research focuses on issues of equity and

evaluation in education, specifically: patterns of school segregation; the effects of school context on educational outcomes; the importance of evaluation to everyday school practice; and the educative/counter-educative impacts of high-stakes testing. His work has been widely cited by researchers around the country and used in multiple amicus curiae briefs in the Gratz and Grutter cases, as well as in several school desegregation cases argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is also co-editor of The Complex World of Teaching (with E. Mintz,) and received his doctorate in administration, planning and social policy research from Harvard University.
Keith Williams , Ph.D., is a faculty member in the Exercise Biology program at UC Davis. His teaching and research activities center around biomechanics of human movement, with a particular research interest in how distance running mechanics and athletic footwear influence running performance, metabolic energy costs, and injury susceptibility. He has twice chaired the UC Senate’s systemwide University Committee on Educational Policy and served as a member of the systemwide Senate Academic Council, most recently in 2009-10. He has been involved in a variety of systemwide committees, including the Senate Special Committee on Remote and Online Instruction and Residency (2009-10) and the Undergraduate Educational Effectiveness Task Force (2008-09). He was co-chair of the Education and Curriculum Work Group of the UC Commission on the Future (2009-10), a group of faculty and administrators that provided recommendations to commission concerning strategies for dealing with effects of budgetary reductions on educational effectiveness at UC. Among those recommendations was support for the online education pilot program being developed by the office of Academic Planning, Programs and Coordination and suggestions for steps that might be taken to assess and track the quality of education at UC.
Dr. Kim McShane-DeBacco is an Instructional Consultant at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB),
California, USA (2008-present). Kim's research interests center around blended teaching and learning, and ethics and reciprocity in developer-faculty and faculty-student relationships. Kim’s PhD (2007) in higher education, completed at The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), NSW, Australia was on the topic: Technologies transforming academics: Academic identity and online teaching . Prior to her current appointment, Kim was an
Academic (faculty) Developer in the Institute for Teaching and Learning at The University of Sydney (2001-2008), and in the Academic Development Unit at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia (1998-2001). In these roles she supported instructors with the design, facilitation and assessment of courses in face-to-face, blended and distance education environments, including satellite television and video-lecturing. Kim‘s academic career began with her initial appointment as a Lecturer (professor) in graduate ESL and foreign language teacher education programs at La Trobe University (1992-1998). Kim is functionally fluent, and for the most part literate, in 6 languages, and she is presently writing up her memoirs about her childhood in rural north-west Tasmania.
Kirk Alexander received both his BA (Art History) and MSE (Civil Engineering) from Princeton University.
Kirk came to UCDavis in 2003 from Princeton University where he was the Director of the Educational Technologies Program.
At Davis he started as the Programming Manager for IET/Mediaworks and led the team to finish two major projects for the UCCPP (University of California College Prep Program). These were complete multimedia AP
Spanish courses that interfaced via SCORM protocol to a locally developed Learning Management System (LMS).
Additionally during this period Kirk oversaw a number of media development projects. In 2005 Kirk was assigned as Program Manager for the major project to replace the University's course management tools with a new system based on Sakai. This work is now in production and the development team, under Kirk, began to explore the addition of new tools and the integration of those tools with media based content to be used for instruction and research in a Sakai context. Kirk is now investigating the potential and strategies for developing hybrid and online undergraduate courses at UCD. Academic Technology Services at UCD has close working relationships with a number of award winning instructors for whom technology already factors heavily in their teaching. UCD hopes to leverage this expertise in helping others to develop effective online courses. At Princeton Kirk led initiatives to develop the Almagest media repository, “Walks in Rome" a context oriented internet database with interactive graphic animations for complete on-line teaching (including The Nolli Map interactive map linked to a repository of course materials on the architectural history of Rome),“An Interactive 3D Computer Graphics History of the

Evolution of 250 Years of Princeton University’s Architecture” in honor of Princeton’s 250th Anniversary, “The
Piero Project” a FIPSE funded endeavor entitled “Teaching Art History with Interactive 3-Dimensional Computer
Graphics.” -- a 3D interactive model of Piero della Francesco's The Story of the True Cross fresco cycle and The
Mappamundi Project (A Multimedia, Illustrated Medieval Dictionary).
Dr. Kumiko Haas is the Director of Instructional Improvement Programs at UCLA’s Office of Instructional
Development. Dr. Haas has been at OID since June of 2003. She is in charge of developing and implementing academically oriented programs, services and activities in support of innovative instructional improvement in all
UCLA schools and colleges. Her current responsibilities include development and implementation of the Collegium of University Teaching Fellows Program (CUTF), TA Training Program (TATP), and Test of Oral Proficiency (TOP) and oversight of and Community Based Program (CBL) and the Instructional Improvement Programs Major Grant (IIP
Grant). She develops and teaches intensive training programs, workshops, and seminars on issues of pedagogy, course design, and instructional methods for new and experienced instructors. Dr. Haas received her Bachelor of
Arts degree from the International Christian University in Tokyo; and she earned a Masters and Doctorate in
Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. Her doctoral work at UC Berkeley and post-doctoral work at
California State University, Los Angeles examined cultural and familial influences on student motivation, learning and academic success. Dr. Haas’ expertise is in curriculum development, pedagogy, student learning, as well as student mentoring and advising.
Dr. Leo Schouest has been with the UC Riverside campus for over 30 years and has in the last 10 years successfully implemented many instructional technology initiatives and pedagogical principles campus wide particularly within the Sciences. With over 30 years experience in both teaching and administration at private and public higher education research and teaching institutions, he provides a focused, balanced and student-centered approach to teaching and learning. Besides managing the UC Riverside learning management system, he is also a consultant for the UCR campus re-accreditation process with experience in evaluating learning goals, outcomes and assessment with a particular interest in the development of rubrics to assess the effectiveness of learning goals. Working with other team members, he has helped to develop individual departmental approaches to assessing student-learning outcomes as they relate to departmental learning goals. With additional interests in educational psychology and classroom ecology, he has been instrumental in developing classroom environments (Hyperstruction Studio and
Flex classroom designs) that encourage greater student engagement and active participation especially in large lecture venues. Recently, an important area of interest has been evaluating effective ways to increase peer-to-peer collaboration via social media and the impact of mobile computing on the learning environment.
Lisa Rothrauff is Manager of Training & Support in ETS. She came to ETS in 2008, with over ten years of experience in content and curriculum development. She has worked as a development editor of both online and print media for a college textbook publisher and as a curriculum developer and learning strategies manager for an online course provider. Prior to her career in industry, Lisa taught as a GSI at Berkeley and as a lecturer at Stanford, where she taught and helped develop curriculum for the History department’s introductory survey course. She graduated from Smith College and had a Ph.D. in History from Berkeley in medieval History. Since coming back to campus,
Lisa has endeavored to expand her team’s services beyond bSpace, the system they immediately support. Services that we currently provide include: front-line support for bSpace users, standard and custom workshops for departments and key campus partners, consultations on the application of tools (in support of pedagogy), introduction to clickers, and brownbag workshops on social media and other relevant topics. We look forward to supporting faculty who are engaged with the OIPP initiative.
Mara Hancock is the Director for Educational Technologies and Associate CIO for Teaching and Learning at the
University of California, Berkeley. She oversees the Educational Technology Services (ETS) department, which serves the UC Berkeley campus community by providing technology and support for campus learning spaces, and

the development and support for online tools that enhance teaching, learning, communication and collaboration.
She currently sits on several system-wide committees in both educational technology and library services. Mara is passionate about the pursuit of innovative educational technology to improve the teaching and learning experience in the classroom and online for the Berkeley students and faculty as well as for learners around the world. To this end, ETS has been an active contributor in the Sakai and Fluid Projects, and is currently leading the
Opencast Project — all international, open source, community developed products out of higher ed. She is interested in the intersection of instructional design, user-centered design, and software development, and how these fields can collaborate to create a better learning experience. Mara has been in the eLearning field for over 15 years, both in higher education and the private sector. Prior to that, she was a graphic designer and free-wheeling artist.
Mark Grimes is a doctoral student in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa
Barbara (UCSB). His MA is in Education with a specialization in counseling and guidance and a focus on students in higher education.
He currently serves as a graduate student researcher for the UC Educational Evaluation Center (UCEC). His research interests include evaluation of education programs, online education, and student development in higher education. His most recent evaluation project involved an assessment of an online statistics courses at several
California community colleges. Prior to coming to UCSB, Mark worked in the Orfalea College of Business at Cal
Poly-San Luis Obispo as the assurance of learning coordinator for the college and advised other colleges and departments on student learning and accreditation.
Susan Sward is a communications consultant for the UC Office of the President’s Online Pilot Project and its
Provost’s Office. Prior to her work at UC, she was an investigative reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. There she worked on the newspaper’s investigative team and covered environmental contamination and governmental policies and operations, including examinations of the San Francisco Police Department, the Hetch Hetchy water system and California prisons’ medical care. Her work also has appeared in other publications, including the New
York Times and the Sacramento Bee. Before working for the Chronicle, she spent almost a decade covering politics in Sacramento.
She received her BA in psychology from Stanford University and a master’s in journalism at the University of
California-Los Angeles.