Advisory Board

Our Advisory Board is composed of individuals from around the country who have interesting and innovative perspectives related to re-envisioning the Ph.D. Their thinking is needed to produce the best ideas available for review and deliberation of doctoral education.

In Autumn of 1999, the Advisory Board met to review the progress of the project and contribute to it. Via structured discussions and informal interaction, the group identified what would need to be done  during those following months.  The intellectual capital of these important thinkers is vital to processing the ideas, conceptions and construction of the final products of the inventory process.

The composition of the group is eclectic, representing the best thinkers we could assemble from the many avenues of society that care about the Ph.D.

Advisory Board Members:

• James Soto Antony, Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (ELPS), University of Washington

• Wendy Baldwin, Deputy Director for Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• Debbie Davis, Past-President, National Association of Graduate and Professional Students

• W. Michael Gallatin, Vice President and Scientific Director, ICOS Corporation

• Phillip Griffiths, Director, Institute for Advanced Study

• Leroy Hood, President and Director, Institute for Systems Biology

• Mark Kelley, Past-President, MLA Graduate Student Caucus, City University of New York

• Leo Lambert, President, Elon College

• Marsha Landolt, Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Washington

• Jules LaPidus, Past-President, Council of Graduate Schools

• Earl Lewis, Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Michigan

• Daniel Ling, Director of Research, Microsoft

• Shirley Malcom, Director of Education and Human Resources, American Association for the Advancement of Science

• Gerald T. Miwa, Vice President of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company

• Kimberly R. Moffitt, Past President, National Black Graduate Student Association

• Hank Montrey, Vice President, Corporate Research & Development, Weyerhaeuser

• Donald Nielsen, Vice President, Seattle Public School Board

• James O'Donnell, Vice Provost for Information Systems and Computing, University of Pennsylvania

• Lee Shulman, President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

• George E. Walker, Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, Indiana University

• Robert Weisbuch, President, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

James Soto Antony
Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (ELPS), University of Washington

James Soto Antony is currently Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, with an emphasis on Higher Education, and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Multicultural Education. Professor Antony received his baccalaureate degree in Psychology and his master's degree and Ph.D. in Higher Education and Organizational Change at UCLA. His current research stems from an interest in identifying the factors that influence aspirations to, and success within, professional occupations, with a special focus on minorities pursuing college faculty careers.

Recent publications examining the personal and environmental factors that influence educational and professional ambition and aspirations have appeared in such journals as Research in Higher Education, the Journal of Higher Education, the Journal of Education of Students Placed at Risk, and the Journal of College Student Development. Additionally, in a forthcoming book by William Tierney on faculty roles and rewards (SUNY Press), Dr. Antony contributes a chapter providing compelling evidence for how the graduate school socialization process can inhibit postsecondary faculty career aspirations among minority doctoral students. In a follow-up article to appear in the Journal of Negro Education, Dr. Antony uses the social-psychological paradigm of stereotype threat and disidentification theory as a framework for understanding how the graduate school experience can be shaped to promote faculty career aspirations among minority doctoral students.

Wendy Baldwin
Deputy Director for Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Wendy Baldwin is Deputy Director for Extramural Research at NIH. Previously, she was Deputy Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH. Her graduate degrees are in social demography, with special attention to issues related to fertility, infant mortality, family, child well being, AIDS risk behavior, and research and statistical methods. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky, Lexington, in 1967, and her B.A., Magna Cum Laude, from Stetson University, Deland, Florida. She is currently heading a Public Health Service (PHS) reinvention laboratory for the extramural program at NIH and has been involved in the implementation of the NIH Revitalization Act regarding the inclusion of women and minorities in research.

Dr. Baldwin is presently the chair, and has been a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Steering Committee of the Task Force for Social Science Research on Reproductive Health since 1985, and in 1998 became the vice-chair of the Board of Directors of the Human Frontier Science Program. She chairs the NIH Bioengineering consortium (BECON) bringing together all the NIH Institutes involved in this area of research. Dr. Baldwin received the prestigious 1997 National Public Service Award co-sponsored by the American Society for Public Administration and the National Academy of Public Administration, for her outstanding accomplishments in the areas of science administration and reinvention activities at the NIH, including her success in having the NIH's extramural program designated as a National Performance Review Reinvention Laboratory under Vice President Gore. She has received a number of honors and awards, including two service awards, and the Carl S. Schultz Award from the Population and Family Planning Section of the American Public Health Association. Dr. Baldwin was elected a fellow to the AAAS in 1998.

Debbie Davis
Past-President, National Association of Graduate-Professional Students

Debbie Davis is a doctoral student at the University of California, Irvine. She is pursuing an interdisciplinary degree focusing on sociology and higher education policy. Her dissertation project explores the impact of student government organizations on campus-based student activism. Debbie has held numerous leadership positions including the Chair of the University of California Student Association, the UC system-wide student government. She is the Past-President of the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS). NAGPS represents over 850,000 graduate and professional students nationwide.

W. Michael Gallatin
Vice President and Scientific Director, ICOS Corporation

W. Michael Gallatin is currently Vice President and Scientific Director of the Company, a position he has held since 1995. He joined the Company in 1990 as Director of the Cell Adhesion Program and became a Senior Director, Science, in 1992. He was appointed Vice President, Biological Research in 1993. Previously, Dr. Gallatin was a faculty member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in immunology from the University of Alberta (Canada) for his research on genetic resistance to neoplastic disease and mechanisms of tumor cell metastasis. Dr. Gallatin has been actively researching immunobiology and cell adhesion for 21 years and has authored numerous scientific articles, including the first description of a cell adhesion molecule involved in site-specific leukocyte traffic, which he published in 1983 while a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University.

Phillip Griffiths
Director, Institute for Advanced Study

Phillip Griffiths, became the seventh Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in 1991. Prior to joining the Institute, he was Provost and James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics at Duke University for eight years. From 1972-83 he was a Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He has also taught at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley. He was a Member in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1968-70. A native of Raleigh, North Carolina, Dr. Griffiths received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. His professional memberships include the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and he was a member of the National Science Board from 1991-1996. A former member of the Board of Directors of Bankers Trust New York Corporation, he currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Oppenheimer Funds. Dr. Griffiths is Secretary of the International Mathematical Union and Convener of the Science Institutes Group.

Leroy Hood
President and Director, Institute for Systems Biology

Leroy Hood heads the new Institute for Systems Biology, pioneering advances in biology and medicine. He was formerly the William Gates III Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Chairman of the Department of Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and Director of a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center. He has an M.D. from the Johns Hopkins Medical School and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the California Institute of Technology. His research interests focus on the study of molecular immunology and biotechnology. His laboratory has played a major role in developing automated microchemical instrumentation for the sequence analysis of proteins and DNA and the synthesis of peptides and gene fragments. His laboratory is also interested in the study of autoimmune diseases and new approaches to cancer biology.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association of Arts and Sciences. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the University Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for changing how diagnoses are made and opening the doors for miracles in treatments and cures; he also holds a number of honorary Doctor of Science degrees, as well as a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree from Johns Hopkins. He has had a life-long commitment to bringing science to society, has spoken widely on the ethical challenges science presents society, and has a commitment to bringing hands-on, inquiry-based science to K-12 classrooms. Under his leadership, the UW Molecular Biotechnology department managed four major science programs, including elementary, middle school, and high school.

Mark Kelley
Past-President, MLA Graduate Student Caucus, City University-New York

Mark Kelley is Capelloni Fellow, at The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York (presently writing a dissertation on Renaissance Literature). He is Immediate Past-President of the MLA Graduate Student Caucus, and a member of the MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession, and New York State Delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly. With Joseph Wittreich, he has edited, Altering Eyes: New Perspectives on "Samson Agonistes"; and he has published in the Minnesota Review, Workplace, Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed, London Times Higher Education Supplement, and the American Association of University Professors' "Footnotes."

Leo Lambert
President, Elon College

Leo Lambert became the eighth president of Elon College on January 1, 1999. He was formerly provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and also a graduate dean at both UW-La Crosse and Syracuse University. At Syracuse he founded the Future Professoriate Project, funded by FIPSE and The Pew Charitable Trusts, to strengthen the preparation of graduate students for successful careers in the Academy. In 1998 he was named by Change magazine as one of the nation's outstanding young leaders in higher education. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association for Higher Education.

Marsha Landolt
Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Washington

Marsha Landolt became Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost in August 1996. From 1991 to 1996, she served as Director of the University of Washington School of Fisheries, and was Associate Dean of the UW College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences from 1983 to 1991. Dr. Landolt received a bachelor of science degree from Baylor University in 1969, a master of science degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1970, and a Ph.D. in pathology from George Washington University in 1976. She joined the University of Washington faculty in 1975 as an assistant professor of fisheries. She was promoted to associate professor in 1979 and to professor in 1986. She is the author of more than 70 scientific publications, most of which are in the field of fish and invertebrate pathology.

Jules LaPidus
Past President, Council of Graduate Schools

Jules LaPidus has been President of the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D. C. since 1984. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin with specialization in medicinal chemistry. In 1958 he joined the faculty in Medicinal Chemistry at The Ohio State University, where he was appointed Associate Dean for Research in the graduate school in 1972 and Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Research in 1974. He has published over 40 papers in the general areas of medicinal chemistry and pharmacology and has been a member of advisory committees at the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In addition, he has chaired or served on many committees concerned with graduate education and research in national associations including the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, the American Council on Education, the Association of American Universities, the Graduate Record Examinations Board, the African-American Institute, the Policy Council of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).

Earl Lewis
Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Michigan

Earl Lewis is Professor of History and Afro-American and African Studies, and Dean of the Rackham School of Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan. The former director of the Center for Afro-American and African Studies at Michigan, his articles on African-American migration and urbanization, the black family, democracy, identity formation, social construction,memory, and race have appeared in The Journal of Family History, the American Historical Review, the Journal of Urban History, The Black Scholar, and several edited volumes and encyclopedia. He is the author of In Their Own Interests: Race, Class, and Power in Twentieth Century Norfolk, Virginia, and with Robin D. G. Kelley, general editor of an eleven volume history of African Americans for young adults.

With Joe W. Trotter he edited, African Americans in the Industrial Age: A Documentary History, 1915-1945. He is a member of several editorial boards and professional organizations. Lewis is currently completing a book of essays on race, identity and history in twentieth century America. He and Heidi Ardizzone are writing a social and cultural history of the annulment trial and divorce of Alice Jones and Leonard KipRhinelander. The latter was a scion of one of New York's oldest and wealthiest families, who in 1924 sued to have his marriage to Jones annulled on the grounds he had not knowingly married a colored woman. The trial garnered wide media coverage and aided the nation in its deliberations about race, class, immigration, and social station.

Daniel Ling
Director of Research, Microsoft

Daniel Ling is currently Director of Research at Microsoft, conducting research in diverse areas strategic to the company. Three main areas of focus at Microsoft Research are Advanced Interactivity and Intelligence, Programming Tools and Methodologies, and Systems Architecture. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He joined Microsoft Research in 1992 as a senior researcher in the area of user interfaces and computer graphics. He has been particularly interested in the design of agent-based user interfaces, user interface architectures, intelligent and adaptive interfaces, and virtual worlds. Previously, Dr. Ling was a senior manager at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and also served on the staff of the Director of Development in the General Technology Division overseeing the development of CMOS chip technologies, as well as on special assignment to the Vice President of Systems in Research. He holds seven patents and is the author of a variety of publications. He was awarded an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award in 1986 for his co-invention of the video-RAM. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Physical Society, and the Association for Computing Machinery. He also serves on the Visiting Committee for the College of Engineering at the University of Washington.

Shirley Malcom
Director of Education and Human Resources, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Shirley Malcom is Director of the AAAS Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs. A former high school science teacher, university faculty member, and NSF Program Officer in science education, she holds a Ph.D. in ecology from Penn State University. She serves on a number of boards and committees related to science policy and science education at local, state, national, and international levels. She is a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and American Museum of National History. Dr. Malcom was appointed by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate as a member of the National Science Board and serves as a member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. She is author or co-author of numerous publications related to the mission of EHR including, "Equity and Excellence: Compatible Goals," "Science Assessment in the Service of Reform," and "The Effect of the Changing Policy Climate on Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Diversity." As directorate head, Dr. Malcom is responsible for ensuring programmatic development, adherence of EHR programs to support the mission of AAAS, and garnering financial support for EHR projects, in addition to serving as spokesperson and advocate for EHR issues and principal investigator and intellectual contributor for EHR projects.

Gerald T. Miwa
Vice President of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company

Gerald Miwa is Vice President of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics at the DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company in Wilmington, DE. He received his Ph.D. in pharmacology from UCLA in 1975. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Hoffmann La Roche, Inc., he conducted research on the chemical mechanism of various biotransformation reactions and on the metabolic basis for the gene toxicity of nitroimidazoles at Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories. He joined Glaxo Inc. in 1987, where he founded the departments of Drug Metabolism and Safety Assessment. In 1996 he joined DuPont Merck. Dr. Miwa's interests are in the application of drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics to the optimization of drug candidates for development and to the elucidation of the chemical and biochemical basis for drug toxicities. He has served as a member of the NIH Pharmacology Study Section, as Chairman of the Gordon Research Conference (1991) on Drug Metabolism and as a member of the editorial boards of Chemical Research in Toxicology and Drug Metabolism & Disposition. He is a past chairman, Drug Metabolism Steering Committee of PhRMA and is a Fellow of AAAS.

Kimberly R. Moffitt
Past President, National Black Graduate Student Association

Kimberly Moffitt is the Past-President of the National Black Graduate Student Association, Inc. She is a Ph.D. candidate at Howard University's School of Communication where she specializes in the research of images of marginalized groups in the media. Kimberly is completing her dissertation work as a Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Fellow of Communication at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. She is also a member of the public service organization, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and a scholar of the COMPACT for Faculty Diversity Project.

Hank Montrey
Vice President, Corporate Research & Development, Weyerhaeuser

Hank Montrey, Vice President for Corporate R & D since 1995, leads R&D efforts that address current and future technology needs across the company's timberlands, pulp, paper and packaging, and wood products businesses. Montrey has an MBA, an MS in Applied Mathematics, and an MS and Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics; he has held tenured and adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Wisconsin and Colorado State University, and is a member of the Forest Products Society, and the Society of American Foresters. He has published and/or presented over 100 papers, speeches, seminars, on forest products and technology management. Prior to joining Weyerhaeuser, he served in senior leadership positions in the U.S. Forest Service as Deputy Director of the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, WI; as Director of the Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort Collins, CO; and as Associate Deputy Chief of the National Forest System in Washington, DC.

Donald Nielsen
Vice President, Seattle Public School Board

Donald Nielsen, Vice President of the Seattle Public Schools Board, is interested in improving urban education in Seattle and nationwide. He is a graduate of the University of Washington with a BA in Business, 1960; and he received an MBA in 1963 from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. Mr. Nielsen was a co-founder, President and Chairman of Hazleton Corporation, the world's largest contract biological and chemical research laboratory company. Hazelton Corporation concentrated its activities in the life sciences industry, providing industry and government with contract biological products. Since retiring, Mr. Nielsen has become Chairman of a start-up company, DiaCom Technologies, Inc., an educational software company. He also serves on the Board of Directors of VWR Corporation, Univar Corporation, the Seattle Art Museum, the Fund for Excellence of the Seattle Public Schools, Junior Achievement of Greater Puget Sound, YMCA of Greater Seattle and the University of Washington School of Business Executive Council. He is also active in the Chief Executive's Organization.

James O'Donnell
Vice Provost for Information Systems and Computing, University of Pennsylvania

James O'Donnell is Professor of Classical Studies and Vice Provost for Information Systems and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published widely on the cultural history of the late antique Mediterranean world and is a recognized innovator in the application of networked information technology in higher education. He also serves as resident Faculty Master of Hill College House at Penn.

Lee Shulman
President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Lee Shulman is President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Carnegie Foundation is a research and policy center devoted to strengthening America's colleges and schools. Although its work is primarily focused on the United States, the foundation also pursues international collaborations and projects. Dr. Shulman is also the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education and Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. The Ducommun chair was endowed in early 1989 to support a senior member of Stanford's education faculty "whose research and teaching activities focus on improving teaching and the education of teachers both in precollegiate schools and in colleges and universities."

He was previously Professor of Educational Psychology and Medical Education at Michigan State University, serving as a member of the faculty from 1963-1982. He was the founding Co-director of the Institute for research on Teaching (IRT) at Michigan State from 1976. He holds all of his earned academic degrees from the University of Chicago, as well as five honorary doctorates. His research and writings have dealt with the study of teaching and teacher education; the growth of knowledge among those learning to teach; the assessment of teaching; medical education; the psychology of instruction in science, mathematics and medicine, the logic of educational research, and the scholarship of teaching in schools and colleges. The goal of his recent research has been to understand the way in which various kinds of knowledge-of content, of pedagogy, of learners, of the pedagogy of particular school subjects, for example-fosters good teaching. He has conducted extensive longitudinal studies of how new teachers learn to teach.

George E. Walker
Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, Indiana University

George Walker joined the faculty at Indiana University in 1970, where his research program has been funded by the National Science Foundation since 1971. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1962, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Case Institute of Technology. During his academic career he has directed Ph.D. students, published over 54 articles in refereed physics journals, and delivered over 20 invited talks at international conferences and workshops. He has actively participated in many of the national organizations related to graduate education and research administration since his appointment as Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School in 1991.

Recent activities include serving as: Chair of the Council of Graduate Schools in 1995, Chair of the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools in 1996, President of the AAU/Association of Graduate Schools in 1997, and Chair of NASULGC Council on Research Policy and Graduate Education in 1997-98. He also served on the AAU Task Force on Graduate Education, and is a Consultant-Evaluator for the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. George values his role in these organizations and seeks to help them find ways to cooperate and reinforce each other to achieve common goals. He currently chairs the Nuclear and Particle Physics Division Advisory Committee at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and serves on the AAU Council on Federal Relations. He is a strong supporter of federal government investment in education and research, and advocates the twin goals of excellence and access as necessary components in American higher education.. His association with the Educational Testing Service began in 1997 and continues to the present. He is a member of the Graduate Record Examinations Board and Chair of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) Policy Council.

Robert Weisbuch
President, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Robert Weisbuch is the fifth president of The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to excellence in education since 1945 through the identification of critical needs and the development of effective national programs to address them. Its programs include fellowships for graduate study, professional development for teachers, educational opportunities for women and minorities, relating the academy to society, and national service.

He came to the Foundation from 25 years at the University of Michigan, where he served as Chair of the Department of English, Associate Vice President for Research, Associate Dean for Faculty Programs and interim Dean at the Rackham School of Graduate Studies. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and holds his Ph.D. in English from Yale University. He has received awards for both teaching and scholarship at Michigan and is the author of books on Emily Dickinson and the stormy relations between British and American authors in the 19th century. In progress are studies of Emerson and of the history of American radio, a lifelong interest. While dean of the School of Graduate Studies, he established a fund designed to improve the mentoring of graduate teaching assistants, created humanities and arts awards for faculty, and made diversity an integral criterion in evaluating program quality. He also headed up a two-year initiative to improve undergraduate education. For the past three years he has served as a regional director for the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies, administered by The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.