Joan
Straumanis, currently at FIPSE (the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary
Education) in the US Department of Education in Washington, DC, will become
president of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio on February 1---next
week! She has been a pioneer in women's studies and the modern women's
movement, and a leader in national science policy and science education
reform. She was a founder of Project Kaleidoscope, a national network
for reform of science education. Her academic interests are in philosophy
of science, logic, mathematics, international education and women's studies.
Her doctorate is in philosophy, from the University of Maryland, and she
has done graduate work in mathematics at the University of Colorado. In
addition to faculty positions at American University in Washington, DC
and Denison University in Ohio, she has been a program officer at NSF,
and dean of three institutions: the College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh
University in Pennsylvania, Rollins College in Florida, and Kenyon College
in Ohio.