Jay B. Labov serves as a Senior Advisor for Education and Communications
for the National Research Council. He also served for three years as
Deputy Director for the NRC's Center for Education and was the study
director and responsible staff officer for the NRC reports,
Evaluating
and Improving Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and
Technology (2003);
Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced
Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools (2002);
Educating Teachers of Science, Mathematics, and Technology: New
Practices for the New Millennium (2000);
Transforming Undergraduate
Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology (1999);
Serving the Needs of Pre-College Science and Mathematics Education:
Impact of a Digital National Library on Teacher Education and Practice
(1999); and
Developing a Digital National Library for Undergraduate
Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education (1998).
He has served as Director of the Center for Education's Committee on
Undergraduate Science Education, Committee on Science Education K-12, and
the National Academies' Teacher Advisory Council. Dr. Labov is currently
the co-PI for a multiyear grant from the National Science Foundation to
the Center for Education and an NSF grant to offer workshops to grantees
of the NSF's Math/Science Partnership Initiative that will enable them to
better understand and implement the recommendations in NRC reports on
education. He also currently oversees the NRC's and National Academy of
Science's efforts to improve the teaching of evolution in the public
schools and a recently expanded effort of the National Academies to work
more closely with disciplinary and professional societies on education
issues.
Prior to assuming his position at the NRC in August 1997, Dr. Labov was a
member of the faculty in the Department of Biology at Colby College (ME),
where he served two terms as Chair of the Division of Natural Sciences,
Associate Chair of the Department of Biology, and as a member of numerous
college committees and panels. He taught courses in Introductory Biology,
Mammalian Anatomy and Physiology, Animal Behavior, and Neurobiology. His
research and publications in the life sciences have dealt with
physiological and behavioral aspects of reproduction in mammals. He was
responsible for developing and overseeing a partnership program for Colby
scientists and teachers in four local school districts. Dr. Labov also has
worked with many national organizations and professional societies to
improve science education for both pre-college and undergraduate students.
He received a B.S. in Biology from the University of Miami and a M.S. in
Zoology and Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Rhode
Island.
