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V. S. Ramachandran
October and November, 1993
February 1994



Professor of neuroscience and director of the Brain and Perception laboratory at the University of California at San Diego, V. S. has done extensive research in perception and brain processing. His visit coincided with a large temporary exhibition on psychology at the Exploratorium. His work in phantom limb research, and his wealth of experience in cognitive science, was helpful in our planning for new biology and cognition exhibits. During his fellowship, he met with exhibit staff, conducted workshops with middle school teachers and Explainers, and gave a public lecture on his brain and phantom limb research.

Tim Hunkin
August and September, 1993



Tim is an artist, tinkerer, filmmaker, and writer. He is also producer and director of two TV series: 'The Secret Life of Office Machines' and 'The Secret Life of Machines', broadcast in England and the U.S. on the Discovery cable channel. Tim was a wonderful resource for exhibits in almost every area. He served as an overall burst of energy for our machine shop staff, and created numerous ideas that added to and improved existing exhibits in electricity, heat, and temperature.

Hillary Rose
July 1993



Hillary is professor of social policy and director of the West Yorkshire Centre for Research on Women, University of Bradford. She has written a number of books and articles on science and social issues including the book 'Love, Power, and Knowledge'. Her interest in the sociology of science helped us explore different ways our programs and exhibits can have a more social focus.

Paul Black
April and July, 1993



Recently retired as director of education at Kings College in London, Paul is an internationally respected leader on assessment and teacher education. He is involved with a number of curriculum and education testing and assessment programs in the US and Europe, including the US National Standards Program to revamp the way assessment is carried out in the schools. He greatly helped us to think through and develop a plan for creating a degree-granting science teacher learning center based in the Exploratorium.

Steven Rose
March and July, 1993



Steven is Chair of the biology department at Open University in London, director of the Brain and Behavior Research Group, and author of the book 'Learning and Memory'. He offered ideas to integrate biology exhibits with many of the other themes in the Exploratorium, specifically by making links between the perception exhibits and the brain processes that underlie them. He also helped us develop a plan for cognition exhibit areas.

Jon Ogborn
February and March, 1993



Jon is the Chair of Science Education at the University of London's Institute of Education. In the late 1960s, he was jointly responsible for the Nuffield Foundation Advanced Physics Teaching Project for 16-18 year olds. His more recent interests include developing the ideas of John Tukey about Exploratory Data Analysis for high schools, developing computational modeling systems which require little or no mathematics, and fundamental studies of the sources of people's conceptions of the world. His broad interest in science teaching and learning was helpful to our teacher programs, Explainers, and exhibit development projects.

Kristina Hooper Woolsey
February and March, 1992
January 1993



Founding director of the Media Lab, Kristina worked with us on new directions using computer/video multimedia technology as part of our creation of a Center for Media and Communication. The Media Lab has created a number of multimedia projects/interactive video disks, including 'Life Story', which was based on the discovery of DNA and 'The Visual Almanac'. Kristina also worked with our exhibit developers and education staff, and helped us create an overall program-planning process.

Guillermo Gomez-Pena
February and March, 1992



Performance artist and journalist from Mexico, Guillermo worked with our exhibit and arts program staff on navigation ideas related to his innovative performance work on North/South borders. He also gave workshop sessions with our teaching staff, local bilingual teachers, and high school Explainers on cross-cultural communication issues of US and Mexico relations. In June 1992, he received the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship Award.

Jeanne Bamberger
January and July, 1992



Jeanne is a professor of music at MIT, and is widely recognized for her use of innovative techniques for teaching music, which interconnect with her research on the cognitive processes of learning. She helped us develop navigation and music exhibit ideas, as well as a possible teaching research collaboration project with MIT.

Judah Schwartz
January 1992



A Harvard University physics professor, Judah studies learning and the use of technology to make abstract ideas much more accessible. He is recognized as a leader in the cognitive science education research field. He helped with the planning of our next major step in exhibit development on cognition, as well as in the expansion of our teacher programs and media and communication endeavors.

Jont Allen
August l990
February 1991



Jont is a senior researcher in acoustics, cochlear modeling, and digital signal processing at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. He worked primarily with exhibit development staff on new exhibit ideas in music and hearing, and ways to upgrade and improve existing sound exhibits.

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