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Eliene
Augenbraun,
President - Chief Executive Office,
is an award-winning teacher, producer,
and illustrator. She earned her
PhD from Columbia University (biology),
researched cystic fibrosis at
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine,
then served two years as a AAAS
Science Policy Fellow. |
 Dr.
Levi Watkins, Jr.
is the Associate Dean of the
Johns
Hopkins University School
of Medicine and Full Professor
of Cardiac Surgery. He is
the first African American
to achieve these positions
at Hopkins. In 1980, he performed
the world's first human implantation
of the automatic implantable
defibrillator. To date, the
lives of over 100,000 people
have been saved with this
treatment.He received the
Johns Hopkins University Alumni
Association Heritage Award
for exceptional contributions
to the university. In May
2000, he was honored by the
Guidant Corporation for his
pioneering work on the automatic
defibrillator.
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 Dr.
Leon Lederman,
Secretary, an internationally
renowned high-energy physicist,
is Director Emeritus of Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory
in Batavia, Illinois and holds
an appointment as Pritzker Professor
of Science at Illinois Institute
of Technology, Chicago. In 1990,
he was elected President of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, the largest scientific
organization in the U.S. He has
received numerous awards, including
the Nobel Prize in Physics (1988).
He is a founder and the inaugural
Resident Scholar at the Illinois
Mathematics and Science Academy,
a 3-year residential public high
school for the gifted. Lederman
is also a founder and Chairman
of the Teacher's Academy for Mathematics
and Science, active in the professional
development of primary school
teachers in Chicago.
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