# preferredTitle
Interim Provost and Executive Vice President

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Interim Provost and Executive Vice President

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Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President

# overview
As a classically trained biologist, my early research interests focused exclusively on alligator research, specifically chemoreception, bacterial and parasitic loads, farming practices and variation of disease among different populations of alligators.  I continue to serve as a member of the Crocodile Specialist Group, an international organization, and occasionally still review crocodilian and other herpetology manuscripts.  In 2000, I moved into a new research area more consistent with my role as Associate Dean.  Currently, my research focuses on raising science achievement levels of K20 students and teachers.  Through the Center for Mathematics and Science Education, which I co-direct, we focus on four primary areas:  1) recruitment, retention and preparation of pre-service mathematics and science teachers; 2) professional development of existing in-service mathematics and science teachers; 3) research on learning and teaching of science and mathematics, and 4) science and mathematics education policy.  For research to be relevant to our students and teachers of Texas, much of the work of the Center focuses on Texas K12 science and mathematics.  However, much of what is learned through our research has national applications, and every effort is made to publish findings in national peer-reviewed journals and present to national audiences.  Additionally, I engage in research on science and mathematics achievement at the college level, recruitment and retention practices for traditionally underrepresented students, seamless transfer programs, and broadening the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) pipeline at all levels.  My group has examined high school characteristics to predict likely success in College of Science majors at TAMU.  This work continues as we begin to disaggregate the data to determine how ethnicity influences such predictors.

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
Louisiana College - (Pineville, Kentucky, United States)

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

# awardsAndHonors[].label
Association of Former Students College-Level Teaching Distinguished Achievement Award, The

# publications[].label
Supplemental Instruction in Physical Chemistry I

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Transfer Learning Community: Overcoming Transfer Shock and Increasing Retention of Mathematics and Science Majors

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A Longitudinal Study of a 5th Grade Science Curriculum Based on the 5E Model

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Haunted by High School Performance No More

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"Who Ate Our Corn?" We Want to Know and so Should You!

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The USDA and K12 Partnership: A Model Program for Federal Agencies

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Math and Science Scholars (MASS) Program: A Model Program for the Recruitment and Retention of Preservice Mathematics and Science Teachers

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CHEMORECEPTION IN THE FEEDING-BEHAVIOR OF ADULT AMERICAN ALLIGATORS, ALLIGATOR-MISSISSIPPIENSIS

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A key to some pentastome, nematode and trematode parasites of the American alligator

# publications[].label
Recruitment and retention of STEM teachers through the Noyce Scholarship: A longitudinal mixed methods study

# publications[].label
Analysis of gular and paracloacal gland secretions of the american alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) by thin-layer chromatography Gland, sex, and individual differences in lipid components.

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Assessment of Advanced Placement Participation and University Academic Success in the First Semester: Controlling for Selected High School Academic Abilities

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Predicting Retention of Mathematics and Science Majors

# publications[].label
Teaching professional development in the first-year writing course

# publications[].label
New records of endohelminths of the alligator snapping turtle (Macroclemys temminckii) from Arkansas and Louisiana, USA

# publications[].label
A meta-analysis of national research: Effects of teaching strategies on student achievement in science in the United States

# publications[].label
Endohelminths of American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) from southeast Texas

# publications[].label
Endohelminths of American Alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) from Southeast Texas

# publications[].label
Salmonella spp. in free-ranging and farmed alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) from Texas and Louisiana U.S.A.

# researcherOn[].label
Texas A&M University Noyce Monitoring and Evaluation

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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TAMU Aggie Teach Robert Noyce Scholarship Program

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Cooperative Development of Future Scientist Program

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Agricultural Research Service - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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USDA/HSINP Future Scientist Program:  Sowing the Seeds of Science Success

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
Agricultural Research Service - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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USDA/HSINP Future Scientist Program: Sowing the Seeds of Science Success

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
United States Department of Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

# researcherOn[].label
USDA/HSINP Future Scientist Program:  Sowing the Seeds of Science Success

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
United States Department of Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

# researcherOn[].label
USDA/HSINP Future Scientists Program:  Sowing the Seeds of Science Success

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
United States Department of Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

# streetAddress
Texas A&M University; Associate Provost For Undergraduate Studies; 1125 TAMU

# organizations[]
Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President