- Staff
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- Helen J. Doyle, PhD
Associate Director
Helen joined E-IPER in May 2006. As associate director, Helen manages all aspects of the program, including overseeing admissions, designing program requirements, developing curriculum, advising students, and engaging faculty across Stanford. Prior to coming to Stanford, Helen held a senior position in the non-profit start-up biomedical research publisher, the Public Library of Science. She was also director of the Science Program at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. She has worked in science education at the K-12 level at the University of California, San Francisco, in partnership with the San Francisco public schools. She spent many years conducting molecular genetics research, as a graduate student at Columbia University and as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco and the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Germany. Helen has a BA from Barnard College and a PhD from Columbia University, both in New York City.
- Danielle Nelson
Assistant Director
- Kathleen (Katie) Phillips, PhD
Program Manager
Katie brings a combination of academic and program management experience to E-IPER, and focuses most of her efforts on the Joint MS Program. Prior to joining E-IPER in August 2009, Katie worked at NASA Ames Research Center developing a biofuels project. She has a BA in Physics from Occidental College in Los Angeles, and a PhD in marine geophysics from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, where she also completed a postdoc and acted as science coordinator for the National Science Foundation-funded Ridge 2000 Program. Prior to graduate school, she worked in the private sector as an analyst for a small environmental consulting firm in Pasadena.
- Thomas Hayden, MS
Lecturer
Tom joined E-IPER in December 2008. A science journalist and magazine writer, Tom teaches IPER 200, a practical course focused on using the tools of journalism to raise the profile and influence of science in the public sphere. With the students in IPER 200, Tom produces a consumer-oriented advice column that provides science-based answers to reader’s questions about sustainable living. Tom also teaches environmental reporting (Comm. 277) in Stanford’s graduate program in journalism.
Prior to coming to Stanford, Tom was a staff writer at the weekly news magazines Newsweek and US News & World Report, and a freelance science journalist for publications including National Geographic, Wired, Nature, USA Today and many others. He has taught science journalism at Johns Hopkins University, and is a founding faculty member in the summer Science Communications program at the Banff Centre, in Canada. He is coauthor of two nonfiction books and continues to write articles and reviews for diverse publications. He has a BSA from the University of Saskatchewan and an MS from the University of Southern California, where he studied biological oceanography.
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