CURRICULUM VITAE

BONNIE S. WOOD, Ph.D.

April 2009

Professor of Biology

College of Arts and Sciences

University of Maine at Presque Isle

 

EDUCATION:

1976 - 1978

Postdoctoral Fellow, Behavioral Biology

California Primate Research Center                  

University of California, Davis, California

 

1975

Ph.D., Neurobiology and Behavior                   

Cornell University Medical College                 

Graduate School of Medical Sciences                

New York, New York                                  

Dissertation title: Recovery of Function Following Unilateral Lesions in the Cat Visual System

 

1968

BA, Biological Sciences                         

Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts

                                                                                               

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

2008

 

 

2007

Sabbatical Project: Authorship of book entitled Lecture-Free Teaching: A Learning Partnership of Science Educators and their Students.

 

Trustee Professor Project: “Assessment of Significant Learning at the University of Maine at Presque Isle”

 

2005 - present

Site Coordinator, Transitions: A Partnership for College Success, funded by the Nellie Mae Education Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation

 

2003

Sabbatical Project: "Incorporation of Inquiry-Based Learning into a Combined Lecture/Laboratory General Biology Course"

 

2003

Collaborative Research: With doctoral candidate at Northeastern University, who  continued and expanded my research on the all-female College Algebra I class at Presque Isle High School   

 

2000

Trustee Professor Project: “Incorporation Of Active Learning Methods Into ‘Lecture’ Courses”

 

1999 - 2000

Principal Investigator, Title II Eisenhower Professional Development Act Grant. “Incorporation of Active Learning Methods into General Biology and Science Courses”

 

1998

Visiting Research Scholar, Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, Wellesley, and Massachusetts.  Research on sex differences in mental spatial rotation skills.

 

1991 - 1997

Research on the effects of participation in an all-female Algebra I class at a coeducational public high school in northern Maine.

 

1992 - 1993

Co-investigator in project on the effects of cross-country ski race training on high school aged students.

 

1989

Planner and director of project on determining glycemic index of foods for fifteen high school students in Aroostook Regional Gifted and Talented Program.

 

1976 - 1978

Postdoctoral research on the effects of early social experience upon visual behavior, arousal and social competency in rhesus monkeys.  Behavioral Biology Unit, California Primate Research Center, University of California, Davis, California.

 

1968 - 1974

Predoctoral research, neuroanatomical studies of visual behavior in the cat.  Department of Anatomy, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York.

 

1968

Research assistant in sleep laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, California.

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:  

1999-present

Professor of Biology, University of Maine at Presque Isle, Presque Isle, Maine

 

1995 - 1999

Associate Professor of Biology, University of Maine at Presque Isle, Presque Isle, Maine

 

1989 - 1995

Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Maine at Presque Isle, Presque Isle, Maine

 

1980 - 1989

Director, Educational Services Department, The Aroostook Medical Center, Presque Isle, Maine

 

1979

Instructor of Biology, University of Maine at Presque Isle, Presque Isle, Maine

 

1978 - 1979

Instructor of Biology, California State University, Sacramento, California

 

1976

Instructor of Biology, California State University, Sacramento, California

1975

Public Health Educator, U.S. Indian Health Service, Ft. Belknap Indian Reservation, Harlem, Montana

 

1974

Instructor, College of Great Falls Extended Campus, Ft. Belknap Indian Reservation, Harlem, Montana

 

PUBLICATIONS

Wood, Bonnie S (Forthcoming in 2009) Lecture-Free Teaching: A Learning Partnership of Science Educators and their Students. Arlington, VA: NSTA (National Science Teachers Association) Press.

 

Wood, Bonnie S. (2009 May/June). Learning science while constructing learning teams. Journal of College Science Teaching 38(5): 28-32.

 

Wood, Bonnie S. 2009. Erasing lecture-laboratory boundaries: An inquiry-based course design. In Inquiry: The key to exemplary science, ed. R.E. Yager, 177-190. Arlington, VA: NSTA Press.

 

Wood, Bonnie S. 2009. Inquiry-based labs: The scientific report. In College Science Teachers Guide to Assessment, ed. T. R. Lord, D. P. French and L. W. Crow, 111-114. Arlington, VA: NSTA Press.

 

Wood, Bonnie S. 2009. Student-authored book reviews. In College Science Teachers Guide to Assessment, ed. T. R. Lord, D. P. French and L. W. Crow, 115-116. Arlington, VA: NSTA Press.

 

Wood, B. S. 2009. Student-led teaching models. In College Science Teachers Guide to Assessment, ed. T. R. Lord, D. P. French and L. W. Crow, 117-120. Arlington, VA: NSTA Press.

 

Wood, Bonnie S. (2007, August). Learning Biology While Constructing Cooperative Learning Groups: The First Fifteen Minutes. The American Biology Teacher, 69(6): 330.

 

Wood, Bonnie S. (2005). Lecture-free teaching in seven steps. The American Biology Teacher. 67(6): 331-338.

 

Wood, B. (2004). Service learning in a human nutrition course. Great Ideas! In Teaching Nutrition. A Benjamin Cummings Publication for Nutrition Instructors, 1: 2. 

 

Wood, B. S. (2004). Lecture-free teaching in college science courses. In M. Druger, E.D. Siebert & L.W. Crow (Eds.), Teaching Tips. Innovations in Undergraduate Science Instruction (pp. 39-40). Arlington, VA: NSTA Press. 

 

Wood, B. S. (2004). Service learning in a college science course. In M. Druger, E.D. Siebert & L.W. Crow (Eds.), Teaching Tips. Innovations in Undergraduate Science Instruction (pp. 41-42).  Arlington, VA: NSTA Press.

 

Wood, Bonnie. (2003). Improving wellness on campus: Service learning in a human nutrition class. Journal of College Science Teaching, XXXIII (2): 27-31.

 

Hoese, W.J., J. Gibber, and B. Wood. (2002). Gender: In the genes or in the jeans? A case study on sexual differentiation.  National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, Case Study Collection (http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases)

 

Wood, B.S.  (1997). All-female mathematics classes: An opportunity for classroom teachers and researchers to collaborate.  New England Mathematics Journal, XXX (1), 10-16.

 

Wood, B.S., and L.A. Brown (1997).  Participation in an all-female Algebra I class: Effects on high school math and science course selection.  Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 3, 265-277.

 

 Wood, B.S., W.A. Mason, and M.D. Kenney (1979). Contrasts in visual responsiveness and emotional arousal between rhesus monkeys raised with living and those raised with inanimate substitute mothers.  Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 93(2), 368-377.

 

Wood, B.S. (1975). Monocular relearning of a dark-light discrimination after unilateral cortical and collicular lesions.  Brain Research, 83, 156-162.

 

Wood, B.S. (1973). Monocular relearning of a dark-light discrimination after large unilateral cortical lesions.  Brain Research, 53, 428-434.

 

INVITED CONTRIBUTION TO BOOK

Wood, B.S. (1998). Nancy Kopell. In C. Morrow & T. Perl (Eds.), Notable Women in Mathematics.  An Biographical Dictionary (pp. 98-102). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

 

RECENT PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

“Lecture-Free Teaching: A Learning Partnership of Science Educators and their Students” (2009, January). 4-hour participative workshop to college faculty at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico.

 

“Lecture-Free Teaching: A Learning Partnership of Science Educators and their Students” (2008, June). 3-hour hands-on workshop to middle and high school science teachers at the Central Aroostook Science and Math Partnership Summer Institute, Presque Isle, ME.

 

“Lecture-Free Teaching: A Learning Partnership of Science Educators and their Students” (2008, May). 3-hour hands-on workshop to science faculty at Caribou High School, Caribou, ME.

 

“Lecture-Free Teaching: A Learning Partnership of Science Educators and their Students” (2008, March) 60-minute hands-on workshop at meeting of National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), Boston, MA.

 

“Lecture-Free Teaching: A Learning Partnership of Educators and their Students” (2008, April) Presentation at “cluster meeting” for five University-High School partnerships supported by “Transitions: Partnership for College Success” grant, Presque Isle, ME.

“Erasing Lecture-Laboratory Boundaries:  An Inquiry-Based Course Design” (2008, March) Presentation at national meeting of Society for College Science Teachers (SCST), Boston, MA.

 

“Lecture-Free Teaching: A Learning Partnership of Professors and their Students” (2008, January) Faculty Noon Seminar Series, University of Maine at Presque Isle, Presque Isle, ME.

 

“Lecture-Free Teaching in Seven Steps” (2007, November) 90-minute hands-on workshop, at the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) Professional Development Conference, Atlanta, GA.

 

“Strategies for Affecting Student Achievement” (2007, January) Presentation at “cluster meeting” for five University-High School partnerships supported by “Transitions: Partnership for College Success” grant, Marlborough, MA.

 

“Building High School-University Partnerships” (2006, September) Presentation with two others at “cluster meeting” for five University-High School partnerships supported by “Transitions: Partnership for College Success” grant Rockport, ME.

 

“Lecture-Free Teaching in Seven Steps” (90-Minute Presentation) and “Lecture-Free Teaching in College Science Instruction” (3-Hour Workshop) (2005, February) Invitation by the Learning Commons at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

 

"Lecture Free Teaching in Science Courses"  (2002, September) Workshop presentation at Central Aroostook Council on Education (CACE) In-service Program for local teachers, "Best Practices that Support Student Learning." Limestone, ME.

 

"Lecture Free Teaching in College Science Courses." (30-minute talk and 2 hour workshop). (2002, June) Invited speaker, Summer 2002 National Conference, Integrating Science and Mathematics Education Research into Teaching, a joint conference of Maine Center for Science and Mathematics Education Research and the Maine Mathematics and Science Teaching Excellence Collaborative (MMSTEC).  University of Maine, Orono, ME.

 

"Strategies for Enhancing Participation by Under-represented Groups in Science and Mathematics" (2002, June) Invited panelist at Summer 2002 National Conference Integrating Science and Mathematics Education Research into Teaching, a joint conference of Maine Center for Science and Mathematics Education Research and the Maine Mathematics and Science Teaching Excellence Collaborative (MMSTEC).  University of Maine, Orono, ME.

 

"How to Teach a College Science 'Lecture' Course Without Giving a Lecture." (2002, March) Society for College Science Teachers at National Convention of National Science Teachers Association, San Diego, CA.

"Active Learning Demonstrations: Faculty Playing the Role of Students," (2000, October) 90-minute workshop at Lilly Conference on College & University Teaching---New England, Boston, MA.

 

"Gender:  In the Genes or in the Jeans?" (With Judith Gibber, Ph.D.  and William Hoese, Ph.D.) (2000, May) Case Studies in Science Workshop, a five-day workshop at the State University of New York at Buffalo, May 2000, Buffalo, NY.

 

"Using Active Learning Methods to Promote Discussion of Diversity Issues in the Classroom," (2000, May) Two-day Faculty Workshop: Diversity and the Curriculum, University of Maine at Presque Isle, Presque Isle, ME.

 

“Single-Sex Interventions: How do They Affect Girls’ Participation in Math and Science?” (1998, April) One-hour presentation at the Wellesley Centers for Women Luncheon Seminar Series, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.

 

 “Girls Only?  One School’s Experience.” (1997, November) One-hour presentation at workshop entitled “Girls on the Edge.  Equity and Fairness in Education” at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, Presque Isle, ME.

 

“Gender Equity in Math and Science Education.”  (1997, June) Two-hour presentation to K-12 teachers participating in the Aurora Academy, University of Maine at Presque Isle, Presque Isle, ME.

 

“Research on All-Female Algebra I Classes” (1997, May) One hour presentation to teachers at Kieve Science Camp for Girls Reunion, Nobleboro, ME.

 

“All-Female Algebra I Classes: A Need for Well-Designed Research.” (1995, April) One-hour presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Boston, MA.

 

"Programs that Promote Leadership for Girls" (1994, May) Panelist at Maine State Department of Education 1994 Women in Leadership Conference entitled Women Leaders Were Once Children, Sebasco, ME.

 

"Effects of Participation in an All-female Math Class at a Public High School in Rural Maine."  (1993, June) Presentation at American Association of University Women (AAUW) Pre-Convention Workshop entitled Gender Issues in the Classroom and on the Campus, Minneapolis, MN. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (LEADERSHIP POSITIONS ONLY)

2007 

Organizer and coordinator of Classroom Assessment Techniques Discussion Group for  University of Maine at Presque Isle Faculty  

 

2005 - present  

Site Coordinator, Transitions: A Partnership for College Success, funded   by the Nellie Mae Education Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation  (partnership between Caribou High School and the University of Maine at Presque Isle)

 

2005

Chairperson, Director of Health and Fitness Center Search Committee

 

2000 - 2002

Coordinator, Science and Mathematics Department, University of Maine at Presque Isle

 

2000 - 2004

Campus Coordinator, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Visiting Fellows Program

 

2000 - 2002

Organizer and coordinator of Active Learning Discussion Group for University of Maine at Presque Isle Faculty and of active learning website

 

1999

Chairperson, Dean of Arts and Sciences Search Committee

 

1997

Chairperson, Science Department Promotion Committee for applications for promotion to Full Professor of Dr. Robert Pinette and Dr. Kevin McCartney, University of Maine at Presque Isle

 

1994-1997

Chair, Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Research                        Subjects University of Maine at Presque Isle

 

1996

Chair, Search Committee for Dean of School of Arts and Sciences, University of Maine at Presque Isle

                         

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPS

Member, National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)

 

Member, Society of College Science Teachers (SCST)

 

Member, National Association for Biology Teachers (NABT)

 

Associate Member, Center for Research on Women, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

 

Member, American Association of University Women (AAUW)

 

 

 

REFERENCES

Dr. Donald Zillman

President

University of Maine at Presque Isle

 

Dr. Michael Sonntag

Vice President for Academic Affairs

University of Maine at Presque Isle

 

Dr. Nancy Hensel

(Former President, University of Maine at Presque Isle)

Executive Officer, Council on Undergraduate Research

 

Michael McCormack

Director, Transitions: Partnership for College Success

University of Maine at Presque Isle

 

Dr. Raymond Rice

Chair, College of Arts and Sciences

University of Maine at Presque Isle