SciPack Content Mentors are content experts assigned to specific
SciPacks. These content mentors are tasked
with responding to teachers’ questions submitted via e-mail within the SciPacks.
The SciPack Content Mentors respond to all questions within 48 hours and are available
to respond to an unlimited number of questions.
Jack Dostal
Jack is currently serves as a Lecturer in the Wake Forest University Physics Department.
Jack received his B.S. from the University of Northern Iowa, his M.S. from Iowa
State University and his Ph.D. in Physics from Montana State University. He served
as both an Adjunct Instructor and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University
of Montana and taught introductory upper division courses in Astronomy and Physics.
Jack is published in The Astronomy Education Review and Lecture Tutorials in Introductory
Astronomy and contributes to many conferences focusing on student understanding
of introductory astronomy and physics.
Jason Krumholz
Jason Krumholz is working towards his Ph.D. in Oceanography from The Graduate School
of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. He has a Masters degree in Marine
Affairs from URI, and a Bachelors in Biology from Lawrence University. His research
focuses on temperate and tropical coastal ecology, habitat restoration, and coastal
mitigation. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, kayaking, skiing, ice hockey, and
spending time with his wife Emily and son Charlie (2). Jason serves as a content
mentor for the following SciPacks: Cell Division & Differentiation, Cells & Chemical
Reactions, Regulation & Behavior of Organisms, Heredity & Variation, Biological
Evolution, Natural Selection, Interdependence of Life, Flow of Matter in Ecosystems,
Coral Reef Ecosystems, Oceans Effect on Weather & Climate, and Resources & Human
Impact.
Sytil Murphy
Dr. Sytil Murphy has been an NSTA mentor since the project began in 2006. She received
her PhD in physics in 2008 from Montana State University and is currently an Assistant
Professor of Physics at Shepherd University in West Virginia. During her graduate
work, she did research on a three-color laser system. Her present research interests
are in Physics Education Research – studying how students learn and think about
physics and then trying to develop ways to best teach physics. Sytil serves as the
content mentor for the following SciPacks: Force and Motion, Energy, Magnetic &
Electric Forces, Nature of Light, Elements, Atoms and Molecules, Atomic Structure,
and Chemical Reactions. Reactions.
Michael Rhodin
Michael received his Ph.D. in cell biology and molecular genetics from the University
of Maryland College Park and is currently working as a scientist on therapeutic
solutions for Hepatitis C viral infection at Enanta Pharmaceuticals in Watertown,
MA. Between receiving his BS in biology from Trinity College, CT in 2002, and returning
to graduate school, Michael worked for several years in the biotechnology industry
in MA at Syntonix Pharmaceuticals, isolating recombinant proteins, and at Acambis
Pharmaceuticals, developing a next generation smallpox vaccine. Michael has been
an NSTA science mentor since 2008 providing assistance with the following SciPacks:
Cell Structure & Function, Cell Division & Differentiation, Science of Food Safety,
and Nutrition.