2013 Assembly of Delegates
Southeast Regional Associate Director
Name: Anthony R. Lupo
Present Position: Professor, Department of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Science
Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia
Chapter Affiliation: University of Missouri
Candidate's CV
Candidate's Statement: I have been a member of Sigma Xi since 1992. It has always been an honor for me to be part of this prestigious organization. I have been a member of the University of Missouri Chapter since 1998, and served the organization at different times as President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. Our chapter has gone through cycles of very little activity, to a vibrant local organization, and back again. During the vibrant times we sponsored research and teaching awards on campus, a high school teaching award in the community, co-sponsored seminars and symposia, and won grants from the National Chapter to invite speakers from the outside. Sigma Xi has allowed me to meet colleagues from other disciplines and institutions. Sigma Xi is a valuable part of campus interactions between scientists of different disciplines, but at the same time continues to lose members. As an organization, we need to reach out to younger scientists and show them the value of their participation in Sigma Xi on our campuses, in spite of the increased demands on their time.
Name: Charles F. Lytle
Present Position: Emeritus Professor of Zoology
Organization: North Carolina State University
Chapter Affiliation: North Carolina State University
Candidate's CV
Candidate's Statement: I have long recognized Sigma Xi as a distinguished and important member of the scientific community and have been a member of four chapters of the society, Indiana University, Tulane University, Pennsylvania State University, and North Carolina State University. I am a past president of the North Carolina State chapter of Sigma Xi and served on the executive board for six years and also served on the awards committee and several other committees.
As an interdisciplinary organization Sigma Xi plays a vitally important role in bringing together scientists from numerous disciplines, and I have benefitted from the numerous opportunities to work with and learn from workers in other fields. These associations are increasingly important today because of the increasingly intersection of scientific advances in diverse scientific fields. Modern biology is an excellent example of a field that has embraced methods and findings from chemistry, physics, mathematics and other disciplines to achieve scientific progress.
As a regional associate director I would work with the regional director to encourage efforts to strengthen the society and to extend our efforts to encourage interdisciplinary research and interdisciplinary communication. Our traditional programs encouraging student research and support of science education must continue to be among our priorities. I also believe that the society needs to continue and expand efforts to promote public scientific literacy, particularly in view of the numerous science related national and local issues before us.
Biographical Information: Charles Lytle received his AB degree from Wabash College where he was a Walter F. Hulet Scholar and his MS and PhD at Indiana University where he was an NIH Fellow. He completed postdoctoral work at Indiana and at the University of Minnesota before taking a position at Tulane University. He later taught at the Pennsylvania State University for several years before moving to North Carolina State University as Coordinator of Biological Sciences. After serving for many years as leader of one of the largest undergraduate programs in the university for 26 years he founded and led the Biology Outreach Program at NC State University to support precollege education in North Carolina until 2007.
His research interests are in invertebrate zoology, marine biology, the biology of symbiosis. He has strong interests in science education and has worked closely with teachers, schools, and school systems nationwide for many years. He has served as consultant to numerous educational organizations including the Educational Testing Service, the College Board, Carolina Biological Supply, WebAssign, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Virginia State Department of Education, and numerous schools and school systems.
He is a Fellow of the AAAS, past president of the National Association of Academies of Science, the North Carolina Academy of Science, Science North Carolina, and the North Carolina State University Chapter of Sigma Xi.
He is the author of several dozen research articles on invertebrate zoology, symbiosis, science education, several books, and is coauthor of a zoology textbook currently in its 16th edition.