Outstanding Educator Award

Eugenie C. Scott, Ph.D.

Eugenie C. Scott is Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, Inc., a nonprofit organization that works to defend the teaching of evolution in public schools. One of the country’s foremost experts on evolution, Dr. Scott has lent her expertise to numerous organizations, foundations, school boards, and academies, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Scott has served on the board of directors of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study and on the advisory councils 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, and is the current president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

Dr. Scott has received numerous honors, including the Bruce Alberts Award of the American Society for Cell Biology, the Isaac Asimov Science Award from the American Humanist Association, the First Amendment Awards 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.

Dr. Scott received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia.