Professional Organizations
East Central Florida Regional Higher Education Partnership for Sustainable Development (2019-present) – led by James Bacchus, UCF, Susan Singer serves as co-lead
Board on Life Science, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (2018-present)
Roundtable on Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Education, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Board on ScienceOrganizing
Committee, Global Perspectives in Convergence Education, convened by National
Science Foundation, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, U.S.
National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S. Department of
State, University of Southern California – (2017-2018)
Chair elect
(elected position), AAAS Section Q, Education – (chair elect, 2017, chair 2018,
past-chair 2019)
Orlando
Science Center Board – (2017-present), https://www.osc.org
NSF, NIH,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Partnership in Undergraduate Life Sciences
Education (PULSE) Fellows Mentor http://www.pulsecommunity.org/page/about (2012-present)
Biological
Sciences Curriculum Study Board of Directors – (2012-2013)
Botanical
Society of America Board of Directors (elected position) – (2012-2013)
National
Research Council (NRC) Discipline-based Education Research
Practioner Resource Committee – (2012-2013)
Member at
large (elected position), AAAS Section Q, Education - (2011-2014)
Minnesota Next Generation Science Standards
Committee http://www.nextgenscience.org/Minnesota - (2011-present)
College Board Advanced Placement (AP) Labs
Vision Committee (2010-2011)
Chair, NRC
Committee on Discipline Based Education Research (2010-2012) http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/BOSE/Discipline_Based_Education_Research/index.htm
Center for
Excellence in Education Board of Directors (2010-2012)
Legume
Information Services Advisory Board (2010-present)
NRC
Committee on Education on Dual Use Issues in the Life Sciences (2009-2010)
American
Society of Plant Biologists Education Foundation Board (2009- 2014)
NSF
Education and Human Resources Advisory Committee (2009-present)
NRC Board on
Science Education (2004-2011) http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/BOSE/index.htm
iPlant Collaborative
Advisory Board and chair of Education, Outreach and Training Committee (2008-2013,
group shifted to a full working group in 2011) http://iplantcollaborative.org/
Chair, NRC
committee on Evidence on Selected Promising Practices in Undergraduate Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education (2007-2008) http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/BOSE/DBASSE_072106
Teaching Genomics Consortium (2006-present) http://serc.carleton.edu/genomics/
NRC Learning
Science Kindergarten through Eighth Grade Science Consultant (Taking Science to School)
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/BOSE/DBASSE_071183
Chair, NRC
High School Science Laboratories: Role and Vision Committee http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/BOSE/DBASSE_072067
Project
Kaleidoscope Board of Directors (2005-2009) http://pkal.org/
PKAL
National Steering Committee (2002-2005)
Columbia
University Genomes and Undergraduates: Science as Inquiry Initiative Steering Committee
(2004-2007)
Planting
Science teacher and student mentoring program advisory board (2005-2008) - http://plantingscience.org/
Society for
Developmental Biology review committee for the BioScieEd Net NSDL portal http://www.biosciednet.org/portal/ (2003-2007)
Chair, NSF
Committee of Visitors for review of the Plant Genome Program (2004) http://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/activities/cov/bio/2004/BIO_PG2004COV.pdf
NRC
Committee on Undergraduate Science Education (2002-2004)
Core member
of NSF Research Coordination Network:
Molecular and Organismic Research in Plant History (P.I. Ned Friedman,
University of Colorado, $498,128, 2003-2008) http://www.colorado.edu/eeb/MORPH/
PKAL Task
Force on Evaluation and Assessment (2002-2004)
Society for
Developmental Biology Professional Development and Education Committee
(1997-2002)
American
Society of Plant Biologists Education Committee (member 1989-1995, Chair
1992-1995)
Coalition of
Educators in the Life Sciences (CELS) board (member 1994-1999, Chair 1998-1999)
Coalition
for Education about Environment, Food, Agriculture and Renewable Resources
(CEEFAR) Steering Committee member (1994-1996)