Speaker Bios
John Boothroyd
John Boothroyd has been on the Stanford faculty in the School of Medicine since 1982. He served as senior associate dean for research and training at the School of Medicine (2002 - 2005), chair of the school's Microbiology and Immunology Department ( 1999 - 2002) and also was a member of the Commission on Graduate Education. John's research is devoted to learning all aspects of Toxoplasma biology and pathogenesis with the ultimate hope of alleviating suffering from this and other serious parasitic diseases. John works part time in VPGE, while maintaining his teaching, advising and research responsibilities. In addition to teaching graduate students, medical students and postdoctoral fellows, John teaches an undergraduate course on modern plagues. In the summer of 2008, he offered his popular Stanford Graduate Summer Institute course, Using Different Approaches to Solving Complex Problems: Responding to Pandemics, for the second time. His Ph.D. is in Molecular Biology from Edinburgh University.
Robyn W. Dunbar
Robyn Wright Dunbar received a B.A. in geology from Trinity University followed by an M.A. in Antarctic marine geology and Ph.D. in geology from Rice University. During the course of her graduate work, Robyn participated in five Antarctic research cruises and holds the distinction of being one of the first two women to conduct Antarctic marine research aboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker. By the time she received her Ph.D., Robyn’s research, her career, and her soul had shifted to the ancient rock record and the spectacular geology of the Four Corners area. Robyn was a faculty member at the University of New Mexico and at Rice University before her 1998 arrival at Stanford as Consulting Associate Professor of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
Chris M. Golde
Chris Golde joined the VPGE staff in February 2007. Prior to that she was a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where she was research director for the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate. She is a nationally recognized expert on graduate education—actively conducting research, speaking and publishing on the graduate student experience, student attrition, doctoral pedagogies, and graduate education reform. She is the lead author of At Cross Purposes: What the Experiences of Today’s Doctoral Students Reveal about Doctoral Education (2001), co-editor of Envisioning the Future of Doctoral Education: Preparing Stewards of the Discipline (2006) a compilation of essays on the doctorate, and co-author of The Formation of Scholars: Rethinking Doctoral Education for the 21st Century (2008). Prior to joining Carnegie, she was a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a Ph.D. in education and an M.A. in sociology, both from Stanford University.
Richard Reis
Richard Reis is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing (AIM) at Stanford and Associate Director of Global Learning Partnerships of the Stanford Learning Lab. He has been with the former since 1989. From 1987 to 1989 he also served as the Associate Dean for Professional Development in the Stanford School of Engineering. Dr. Reis is also a Consulting Professor in the Stanford Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering departments. He teaches an introductory seminar for all incoming Electrical Engineering graduate students in the fall quarter (EE201A) and a graduate seminar (EE201B) on ""Life after Stanford"" in the winter quarter. Throughout the academic year, he teaches the Proseminar in Manufacturing Education for students in the Stanford Future Professors of Manufacturing program. He is a part-time instructor in astronomy at the College of San Mateo and a curriculum consultant to the Menlo School and College. Prior to coming to Stanford he was the Executive Officer and editor of the astronomy magazine, Mercury, for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, a Professor of science education at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Newfoundland, Canada, and a high school physics teacher in Los Angeles. Reis holds bachelor's degrees in physical geography (honors), physics (honors) and a master's degree in science education from California State University at Los Angeles, and a master's degree in physical science (geophysics) and a PhD in science education (physics) from Stanford University.