DARYL E. CHUBIN
dchubin@aaas.org
 

Daryl Chubin has had three careers: academic, federal, and nonprofit. He became Founding Director, in August 2004, of the AAAS Center for Advancing Science & Engineering Capacity (www.aaascapacity.org), a fee-for-service consulting organization at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, DC. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President, Research, Policy & Programs for 3+ years at the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Inc., in White Plains, New York, after nearly 15 years in federal service. Posts included Senior Policy Officer for the National Science Board (1998-2001); Division Director for Research, Evaluation and Communication in the National Science Foundation Directorate for Education and Human Resources (1993-98); and (on detail) Assistant Director for Social and Behavioral Sciences (and Education) at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (1997). He began his federal career in 1986 at the congressional Office of Technology Assessment, directing studies on science education and federal research funding policy.

In his first career, Dr. Chubin was a faculty member at four universities, including Georgia Tech where he was promoted to full professor. Since 1991, he has been Adjunct Professor at the Cornell in Washington Program, and serves as an outside examiner for master's and doctoral candidates at Virginia Tech and George Washington University. He has published eight books and numerous policy reports, articles, and commentaries on issues in science, human resource development, program evaluation, engineering education, and science and the media.

Chubin serves on the editorial boards of three journals and as a director on nonprofit boards: the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology (CPST), the TizMedia Foundation, and the Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network (WEPAN). Among his honors are: AAAS Fellow, Past Chair of the AAAS section on Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering, Past President of CPST, Fellow of the Association for Women in Science, member of the National Academy of Engineering Committee on Diversity in the Engineering Workforce, Integrator for BEST (Building Engineering and Science Talent)¡ªa public-private partnership created in 2001 to implement the recommendations of the Morella Commission, co-recipient of the American Society of Engineering Education Wickenden Award for best paper published in the 2003 volume of The Journal of Engineering Education, QEM/MSE 2006 Giant of Science, and Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer 2007-2009.

December 2006