Pro-Science News
Bridging the chasm between evolution and faith
Preparing future leaders to make informed decisions
Sharon Gusky and Tara Jo Holmberg
Sharon Gusky (right) is the current President of the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) and is Professor of Biology at Northwestern Connecticut Community College. Tara Jo Holmberg was the 2019 Chair of the Two-Year Section of NABT and is Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at Northwestern Connecticut Community College.
John Murnan
John Murnan is a biology and human anatomy and physiology teacher at Etowah High School in Woodstock, GA. An NCSE Teacher Ambassador, he has served as an AP Biology reader since 2015 and has experience writing and producing videos for TED-ED and Science Screen Reports. He also conducted research comparing the effectiveness of an inquiry approach for student understanding of natural selection. Murnan has served as a Teacher Scholar at the Institute On Neuroscience where he studied the effects of early exposure to anesthesia on brain development. He has also presented at professional conferences on ways to improve vertical integration between elementary, middle, and high schools.
Evolving my teaching
William F. McComas
William F. McComas is Parks Family Distinguished Professor of Science Education at the University of Arkansas. He is also Editor of The American Biology Teacher.
An amazing idea and explanatory framework
Andrew J. Petto
Andrew J. Petto is distinguished lecturer emeritus at the University of Wisconsin‒Milwaukee where he taught courses in anatomy and physiology and participated in professional development outreach for elementary science specialists in the Milwaukee area. He served as editor of RNCSE (and earlier NCSE periodicals) from 1995 to 2014 and also served on the NCSE board of directors. He is a recipient of NCSE’s Friend of Darwin Award and the Evolution Education Award from the National Association of Biology Teachers.
Evolution: Feel it in your fingers and feel it in your toes
Teach the Facts. Teach the Evidence. Teach Evolution.
A Rhode Island resolution to support climate education
Darwin Day declared in Connecticut
Trouble looms for Idaho's state science standards
Lawrence Lerner
Lawrence Lerner is a retired physics professor who thanks his broad liberal education in college for having made it possible for him later to make contributions in history and philosophy as well. He also worked for about thirty years on matters concerning K-12 science education.
The sciences don't fit together without evolution
Roy Speckhardt
Roy Speckhardt is Executive Director of the American Humanist Association where he actively promotes the humanist perspective on progressive political issues. He is a frequent media commentator, having appeared on Good Morning America, CNN, Fox News, and NPR, among others. He also gives speeches at colleges, conferences, and local humanist groups across the country.
Why teach evolution? So we don't give up our ground zero
Evolution Education Inoculates Against Fake Science
The New Abnormal: The Monarchy is Restored in the USA
James Gleick
James Gleick is the author, most recently, of Time Travel: A History. His previous book was The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, an international bestseller exploring the genesis and consequences of the information age. His first book, Chaos: Making a New Science, was a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist. He collaborated with the photographer Eliot Porter on Nature’s Chaos. His other books include the best-selling biographies Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, and Isaac Newton, both shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as Faster and What Just Happened. His books have been translated into twenty-five languages.
