 Eugenie Scott
Dr. Eugenie C. Scott, former college professor, and Executive Director of
the National Center for Science Education, Inc., a not for profit membership
organization in Oakland, CA, of scientists, teachers, and others that works to
improve the teaching of evolution, and of science as a way of knowing. It
opposes the advocacy of "scientific" creationism and other
religiously-based views in science classes. She has served on the Board of
Directors of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS), and the advisory
counsels of several church and state separation organizations. She has held
elective offices in the American Anthropological Association and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. Honors include the Bruce Alberts
Award of the American Society for Cell Biology, the Isaac Asimov Science Award
from the American Humanist Association, the First Amendment Award from the
Playboy Foundation, the James Randi Award from the Skeptic Society, and the
Distinguished Alumna Award from the University of Missouri College of Arts and
Sciences.
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