Nominees for Baccalaureate Colleges Constituency Group
Representative - Committee on Nominations

November 9-11, 2001, Raleigh, North Carolina
In conjunction with the Sigma Xi Forum, November 8-9, 2001

Position of: Baccalaureate Colleges Constituency Group
Representative - Committee on Nominations

Name: James Greenwood Daly

Present Position: Associate Professor of Biology
Organization: Purchase College, State University of New York

Address: Div. of Natural Sciences
735 Anderson Hill Rd.
Purchase, NY 10577
USA

Telephone: (914) 251-6669
FAX: (914) 251-6635
E-mail: jdaly@purvid.ns.purchase.edu

Chapter Affiliation: SUNY at Purchase

Candidate's Statement: My research is conducted with undergraduate co-workers who are all required to do undergraduate research and write a senior research thesis for their biology degree requirements. It is important that Baccalaureate Colleges that encourage or require undergraduate research have a strong voice in Sigma Xi and that they be recognized as locations of serious science.

Sigma Xi and Other Activities: Sigma Xi: Purchase College, State University of New York, Pres 96-99;

Biographical Information: b 1953. Educ: Univ. of Guelph, B.Sc., 80, Ph.D. (Microbiology), 90; Prof. Exp. Wageningen Agricultural University Postdoctoral Fellow, 90-91. Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Fellow 91-94; from asst to assoc prof Biology, Purchase College, State University of New York, 94-01; Memberships. Sigma Xi; Am Soc Microbiology; Am Fish Soc; Research interests: fish diseases and immunology, bacterial pathogenesis.


Position of: Baccalaureate Colleges Constituency Group Representative - Committee on Nominations

Name: John H. Ellison

Present Position: Professor and Chair Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science

Organization: Grove City College

Address: 100 Campus Drive
Box 2644
Grove City, PA 16127-2104
USA

Telephone: 724-458-2105
FAX: 724-458-3852
E-mail: jhellison@gcc.edu

Chapter Affiliation: Grove City College Chapter

Candidate's Statement: The position of Baccalaureate Colleges Constituency Director allows the Board of Directors to hear and consider the special concerns and interests of the members of Sigma Xi who are affiliated with baccalaureate only degree granting institutions. My interests and experience enable me to represent those members on the Board of Directors. I also have experience in the larger scientific community which will be beneficial to the broader interests of the society.

Sigma Xi and Other Activities: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, member, 1987-Present; Sigma Xi, member since 1997; Charter Member of Grove City College Chapter; President, Grove City College Chapter, 2000-2001; Vice-president, Grove City College Chapter, 1999-2000; Secretary, Grove City College Chapter, 2001-2.

Biographical Information: BA, Whitman College; MS, University of Colorado; PhD, University of Pittsburgh; Consultant, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1982-1991; Faculty Member, Grove City College, 1970-Present; Department Chair, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, 1991-Present; Grove City Community United Way, Volunteer of the Year, 1994; Publication: An Unconditionally Stable Convergent Finite Difference Method for Navier-Stokes Problems on Curved Domains, JH Ellison, CA Hall, TA Porsching, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, December, 1987.

Position of: Baccalaureate Colleges Constituency Group
Representative - Committee on Nominations

Name: Kathryn Ann Schubel

Present Position: Assistant Professor of Geology
Organization: Lafayette College

Address: Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences
Lafayette College
Easton, PA 18042
USA

Telephone: 610-330-5194
FAX: 610-330-5717
E-mail: schubelk@lafayette.edu

Chapter Affiliation: Lafayette College

Candidate's Statement: I welcome the opportunity to represent the Baccalaureate Colleges Constituency Group to Sigma Xi’s Committee on Nominations. I am interested in developing strategies to increase participation, by both students and faculty, in Sigma Xi chapters at baccalaureate institutions. Sigma Xi provides a platform for discussion and collaboration among different scientific disciplines and constituency groups. Sigma Xi also positively impacts the local community through outreach programs. Chapter activity is necessary to effectively carry out the mission of Sigma Xi. An active chapter will keep students and faculty informed about the range of research topics and opportunities both on-campus and off-campus. Collaborations among different constituency groups are particularly important for students and faculty at baccalaureate institutions. Sigma Xi can effectively foster collaborations across the scientific disciplines and across the college-community interface. Sigma Xi has the potential to be an effective "clutch" to engage the society in the scientific enterprise and there is no better place to do this than on baccalaureate campuses because of their prominence in their communities. It is on baccalaureate campuses that the late Ernest Boyer’s four dimensions of scholarship--discovery, application, integration and transmission—can and should be cultivated and rewarded, and Sigma Xi can play a critically important role.

Sigma Xi and Other Activities: 1998 Lafayette Coll Chapter Delegate, Sigma Xi annual meeting; 1998-99; Vice President Lafayette Coll Chapter; 1999-2000 President, Lafayette Coll Chapter; 1998-2000 Newsletter Editor, NE Section, Soc for Sedimentary Geol (NESEPM); 2000-01 Vice President, NESEPM; 2000, Attended the Nat Assoc of Geoscience Teachers Workshop for Early Career Faculty in the Geosciences; 2001-02 President, NESEPM Affiliations: 1987-, Sigma Xi; 1989-, Geol Soc of Am; 1993-, Mineralogical Soc of Am; 1990-, Soc for Sedimentary Geol (SEPM); 1996-, NESEPM.

Biographical Information: 1997-, Asst Prof of Geology, Lafayette Coll; 1997 Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Univ; 1996-97 Instructor, Lafayette Coll; 1992 MA, State Univ of NY, Binghamton; 1987 BA Honors, Oberlin Coll.