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John Hearst and Meredith Tromble Join Leonardo/ISAST Governing Board

Leonardo/ISAST welcomes John Hearst and Meredith Tromble to its Governing Board of Directors. Their terms will run from 2007 through 2009.

John Hearst is a co-founder of Cerus Corporation, where he served as a director from 1991 to 2002 and as Vice President of New Science Opportunities from 1996 to 2004. He has had a long academic career, having been a professor of chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley from 1962 to 1996. As an emeritus professor, Hearst retains the position of Senior Staff Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL). He also served as director of the Chemical Dynamics Division at LBL from 1986 to 1989. Hearst is well known for his work on psoralen photochemistry, DNA replication and transcription, DNA excision repair, DNA helix elasticity, the structure of eukaryotic chromosomes and the first DNA sequences of the reaction center and light-harvesting genes associated with photosynthesis. The basic scientific foundation utilized in the Cerus photochemical inactivation technology was developed in the Hearst laboratory at UCB. Hearst received a Ph.D. in chemistry and physics from the California Institute of Technology. In 1992, Hearst received an Honorary Doctorate (D.Sc.) from Lehigh University, and he received the Berkeley Citation from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999.

Meredith Tromble is an artist and writer as well as a co-publisher of Stretcher.org. She is an associate professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and faculty co-founder of SFAI's Center for Art + Science. In addition to her work on Stretcher.org, she was founding editor-in-chief of Art Contemporaries, art editor for Breathe (2004-2005) and art editor for LIMN Magazine of Art and Design (1998-2000). As editor-in-chief of the original NextMonet.com, she created the on-line magazine Mark in 2000-2001. Before developing these publications, Tromble served as editor-in-chief of Artweek (1996-1998). She is the author of hundreds of articles, interviews and catalog essays and editor of The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson: Secret Agents, Private I, published by the University of California Press (2005). With the Stretcher collective, Tromble has exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Southern Exposure Gallery in San Francisco, and as an independent artist she has shown work at venues ranging from Mills College Art Gallery to the Walter and McBean Galleries at SFAI.

Dennis Bartels Named Honorary Leonardo Editor

Leonardo/ISAST is pleased to welcome Dennis Bartels as an honorary editor.

Dennis Bartels is the Executive Director of the Exploratorium, San Francisco's acclaimed museum of science, art and human perception. Founded by physicist and educator Frank Oppenheimer in 1969, the Exploratorium has achieved worldwide recognition as the prototype for hands-on science museums around the world.

Bartels previously served as president of TERC, a nationally known education research and development center based in Cambridge, MA, known for its innovative curricula, products and tools for teachers and students in primary and secondary classrooms. Prior to 2001, Bartels directed the Center for Teaching and Learning at the Exploratorium, where he was responsible for the establishment of the Exhibit-Based Teaching Partnerships program in several centers around the world, including Beijing, China.

Bartels also was principal investigator and project director of the National Science Foundation-sponsored South Carolina Statewide Systemic Initiative and directed the development of the state curriculum frameworks there. He received his Ph.D. in Education Administration and Policy Analysis from Stanford University and completed his undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has served on several committees, advisory boards and review panels for the National Science Foundation and other education organizations, including the Merck Institute for Science Education and Cisco Learning Institute. Bartels has testified before committees of both the United States Senate and House of Representatives. He has been an invited guest and speaker on science and mathematics education in England, France, Brazil, the...