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INTERNATIONAL
Success Stories of Students with Disabilities Noted in New Book

Since 1996, the ENTRY POINT! internship program run by the American Association for the Advancement of Science has paved the way for students with disabilities to launch academic and professional careers in science and engineering.

Next month, a newly published book chronicles the personal and educational journeys of three dozen of those students, showing how they bridged the gap between societal constraints and scientific pursuits. It also shows how the students were helped by assistive technologies, supportive mentors and families, and legislation that opened higher education to people with disabilities.


A new book examines successes of students with disabilities.

The book, Roadmaps & Rampways: Profiles of Students With Disabilities in Science, Engineering, and Technology, focuses on useful strategies for translating educational skills into the workplace, said Virginia Stern, director of the AAAS Project on Science, Technology and Disability, which administers the ENTRY POINT! program. But Stern, who co-authored the book with science writer Michael Woods, cautioned that no "one-size-fits-all" approach accounts for successful transitions beyond the classroom.

"That is why we called the book Roadmaps & Rampways, because there was no map for these students or families to follow," she said.

After interviewing students, faculty, counselors, families, and employers, Stern and Woods concluded that the technological, supportive, and legislative factors crucial to success were present in all students interviewed, but had different effects. "All of these ingredients had to interact for each student, but they couldn't be generalized to a common formula because there is so much variation between students with disabilities," Stern said.

Started 5 years ago, ENTRY POINT! continues the legacy begun in 1975 by the AAAS Project on Science, Technology, and Disability, which launches and sustains programs to help people with disabilities start and continue careers in science and engineering. The Project--part of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs--was initiated during a decade in which new federal laws stated that all students with disabilities were entitled to appropriate support services for education.

In 1990, with a grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate, Stern and her colleagues began examining recruitment and retention levels of students and academics with disabilities. They soon found that the same legislation making higher education possible for people with disabilities didn't translate into employment opportunities, and that internship and co-op programs could help correct this problem--at the same time that NASA and IBM officials wanted to diversify their workforce.

Forming a partnership with AAAS, which screened and matched college students, the organizations in 1996 launched ENTRY POINT! and have since been joined by DuPont, Lucent Technologies, the National Science Foundation, Procter & Gamble, Seagate Technologies, and Texas Instruments. The program, which in its first year placed half a dozen students, has since made nearly 250 placements--21 of whom have been hired fulltime.

Among them is Chris Lamoreaux, who while studying mechanical engineering at Tufts University had ENTRY POINT! internship and co-op experiences at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Born with a disability called osteogenesis imperfecta, a condition known as "brittle bones," he was encouraged by his family and fueled by intellectual curiosity, and excelled in school at science and math. Now a full-time engineer at NASA, Lamoreaux claims he wouldn't be there were it not for the AAAS program.

"ENTRY POINT! got my foot in the door," he said. "The whole experience was an opportunity to learn about the real world and allowed me to make the connections to ultimately get a job at NASA."

Echoing that sentiment is Tim Scamporinno, a computer science major at Sonoma State University who interned at IBM Global Services and is now a Technical Services Manager. Tim, who is quadriplegic and uses a wheelchair, recalled that when applying for internships most organizations dwelt on his disability. But, he said, "ENTRY POINT! and IBM really focused on my talents."

In fact, Stern observed, the scientific community may be the biggest beneficiary of the program. "This is an untapped and overlooked resource that can make large contributions to the fields of science and engineering," she said.

For more information, e-mail Virginia Stern at vstern@aaas.org.

--Peggy Dillon and Eric Grammer

 

AAAS Members Elected as Fellows

In September the AAAS Council elected 288 members as Fellows of AAAS. These individuals will be recognized for their contributions to science at the Fellows Forum to be held on 16 February 2002 during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston. The new Fellows will receive a certificate and a blue and gold rosette pin as a symbol of their distinguished accomplishments. Presented by section affiliation, they are:

Agriculture, Food, and Renewable Resources
Elton D. Aberle, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison • Walter J. Armbruster, Farm Foundation, Oak Brook, IL • Barbara P. Glenn, Federation of Animal Science Societies, Bethesda, MD • Anthony H. C. Huang, Univ. of California, Riverside • F. Thomas Ledig, Institute of Forest Genetics, Placerville, CA • Owen J. Newlin, Des Moines, IA • Herbert W. Ohm, Purdue Univ. • Bennie I. Osburn, Univ. of California, Davis • Sonny B. Ramaswamy, Kansas State Univ. • K. Ramesh Reddy, Univ. of Florida • Philip A. Roberts, Univ. of California, Riverside • Gary H. Toenniessen, Rockefeller Foundation • Sant S. Virmani, International Rice Research Institute, Makati City, Philippines

Anthropology
Ralph M. Garruto, State Univ. of New York, Binghamton • John H. Relethford, State Univ. of New York, Oneonta • Pat Shipman, Pennsylvania State Univ. • Sarah Williams-Blangero, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, TX

Astronomy
Bruce Balick, Univ. of Washington • Richard F. Green, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, AZ • William K. Hartmann, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ • Kenneth J. Johnston, U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, DC • Yervant Terzian, Cornell Univ. • Trevor C. Weekes, Whipple Observatory, Amado, AZ

Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences
Ellen R. M. Druffel, Univ. of California, Irvine • David Halpern, Jet Propulsion Lab., Pasadena, CA • Charles A. Knight, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder • Ronald G. Prinn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • David A. Randall, Colorado State Univ.

Biological Sciences
Donna Jeanne Arndt-Jovin, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany • James G. Baldwin, Univ. of California, Riverside • Amiya K. Banerjee, Cleveland Clinic Foundation • Kamaljit S. Bawa, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston • Philip A. Beachy, Johns Hopkins Univ. • Caroline Shafer Bledsoe, Univ. of California, Davis • Carol L. Boggs, Stanford Univ. • David Wayne Bolen, Univ. of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston • Michael R. Botchan, Univ. of California, Berkeley • Richard C. Brusca, Univ. of Arizona • Barbara Kathryn Burgess, Univ. of California, Irvine • Mario Renato Capecchi, Univ. of Utah • Sean B. Carroll, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison • Deborah A. Clark, Univ. of Missouri, St. Louis • Diane W. Davidson, Univ. of Utah • Carol A. Erickson, Univ. of California, Davis • John Faaborg, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia • Mark H. Ginsberg, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA • Brian J. Hales, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge • Gonzalo Halffter, Instituto de Ecologia, Veracruz, Mexico • R. Scott Hawley, Univ. of California, Davis • John B. Hays, Oregon State Univ. • Lewis A. Jacobson, Univ. of Pittsburgh • Philip Hung-Sun Jen, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia • Linda Jen-Jacobson, Univ. of Pittsburgh • Russell L. Jones, Univ. of California, Berkeley • Sammy William Joseph, Univ. of Maryland, College Park • Kazuhiko Kinosita Jr., Keio Univ., Yokohama, Japan • Hynda K. Kleinman, National Institute of Dentistry and Craniolfacial Research • Irving L. Kornfield, Univ. of Maine, Orono • Stephen C. Kowalczykowski, Univ. of California, Davis • Alan M. Lambowitz, Univ. of Texas, Austin • James Ching Lee, Univ. of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston • Barry R. Lentz, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill • Robert L. Lester, Univ. of Kentucky • Paul A. Loach, Northwestern Univ. • Martha L. Ludwig, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor • Michael E. Maguire, Case Western Reserve Univ. • John L. Markley, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison • Bettie Sue Masters, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio • David B. McKay, Stanford Univ. • Sandra D. Michael, State Univ. of New York, Binghamton • Scott Everett Miller, National Museum of Natural History • Diana G. Myles, Univ. of California, Davis • Shahid Naeem, Univ. of Washington • Reed F. Noss, Conservation Science, Inc., Corvallis, OR • Lynne R. Parenti, National Museum of Natural History • Mary V. Price, Univ. of California, Riverside • Paul Primakoff, Univ. of California, Davis • Curtis J. Richardson, Duke Univ. • James A. Spudich, Stanford Univ. • Fern Tablin, Univ. of California, Davis • Cindy Lee Van Dover, College of William and Mary • Michael Vecchione, National Marine Fisheries Service • Nickolas M. Waser, Univ. of California, Riverside • Eric Westhof, Univ. Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France • Sue Hengren Wickner, National Cancer
Institute • Charles F. Yocum, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Chemistry
Edward V. Arnold, Rutgers Univ. • Charles A. Arrington, Furman Univ. • Kim K. Baldridge, Univ. of California, San Diego • Michael Robert Berman, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Arlington, VA • Elliot R. Bernstein, Colorado State Univ. • Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Univ. of California, Berkeley • David A. Brant, Univ. of California, Irvine • Maurice S. Brookhart, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill • Brian P. Coppola, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor • Dennis P. Curran, Univ. of Pittsburgh • Philip R. DeShong, Univ. of Maryland, College Park • David Eisenberg, Univ. of California, Los Angeles • Catherine C. Fenselau, Univ. of Maryland, College Park • Joseph S. Francisco, Purdue Univ. • M. Reza Ghadiri, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA • Richard I. Gumport, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana • Carlos G. Gutiérrez, California State Univ., Los Angeles • Charles B. Harris, Univ. of California, Berkeley • William R. Heineman, Univ. of Cincinnati • Andrew Kaldor, Exxon Mobil Research & Engineering Co., Annandale, NJ • George B. Kauffman, California State Univ., Fresno • Charles E. Kolb Jr., Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA • Eric T. Kool, Stanford Univ. • Jeffrey D. Kovac, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville • Gerd N. La Mar, Univ. of California, Davis • Frederick D. Lewis, Northwestern Univ. • David M. Lubman, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor • Michael A. Marletta, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor • Lawrence J. Marnett, Vanderbilt Univ. • Linda B. McGown, Duke Univ. • Mario J. Molina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • John H. Moore, Univ. of Maryland, College Park • Alexander Pines, Univ. of California, Berkeley • Lawrence Que Jr., Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis • Ronald T. Raines, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison • Debra R. Rolison, Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC • Richard J. Saykally, Univ. of California, Berkeley • Jeffrey Skolnick, Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis • Amos B. Smith III, Univ. of Pennsylvania • Olke C. Uhlenbeck, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder • Paul A. Wender, Stanford Univ. • Robert Mark Wightman, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill • Todd O. Yeates, Univ. of California, Los Angeles • Francisco Zaera, Univ. of California, Riverside

Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences
Martha J. Somerman, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor • Joan S. Wilentz, Chevy Chase, MD

Education
David W. Brooks, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln • John Seely Brown, Xerox Corp., Palo Alto, CA • James J. Gallagher, Michigan State Univ. • Joseph S. Krajcik, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor • Alan H. Schoenfeld, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Engineering
J. Edward Anderson, Taxi 2000 Corp., Fridley, MN • John L. Anderson, Carnegie Mellon Univ. • William E. Bentley, Univ. of Maryland, College Park • Leonard J. Brillson, Ohio State Univ., Columbus • Melvin W. Carter, Dunwood, GA • Paul D. Coleman, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana • Kenneth R. Diller, Univ. of Texas, Austin • Audeen Walters Fentiman, Ohio State Univ., Columbus • Morton H. Friedman, Duke Univ. • Eric W. Kaler, Univ. of Delaware • Tarald O. Kvålseth, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis • Jean-Pierre Leburton, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana • Henry R. Linden, Illinois Institute of Technology • Mark R. Matsumoto, Univ. of California, Riverside • John W. Poston Sr., Texas A&M Univ., College Station • Ronald W. Rousseau, Georgia Institute of Technology • Bertram Wolfe, Monte Sereno, CA • Novak Zuber, Rockville, MD

General Interest in Science and Engineering
Felice Frankel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Barbara Gastel, Texas A&M Univ., College Station • Thomas H. Moss, Alexandria, VA

Geology and Geography
William D. Carlson, Univ. of Texas, Austin • Michael H. Carr, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA • Sankar Chatterjee, Texas Tech Univ. • Mary L. Droser, Univ. of California, Riverside • John M. Ferry, Johns Hopkins Univ. • George W. Fisher, Johns Hopkins Univ. • Bryan L. Isacks, Cornell Univ. • Joseph L. Kirschvink, California Institute of Technology • H. Jay Melosh, Univ. of Arizona • José Antonio Rial, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill • David R. Stoddart, Univ. of California, Berkeley

History and Philosophy of Science
David A. Hounshell, Carnegie Mellon Univ. • Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Duke Univ. • Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, Univ. of Florida

Industrial Science and Technology
Harvey D. Kushner, Kushner Management Planning Corp., Palos Verdes Estates, CA • Rudolph Pariser, R. Pariser & Co., Inc., Hockessin, DE

Information, Computing, and Communication
Elwyn Berlekamp, Univ. of California, Berkeley • Edward D. Lazowska, Univ. of Washington • Hans P. Moravec, Carnegie Mellon Univ. • Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology • Bruce R. Schatz, Univ. of Illinois, Champaign • Alan Jay Smith, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Linguistics and Language Science
Mark Aronoff, State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook

Mathematics
Jonathan Michael Borwein, Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC, Canada • John Guckenheimer, Cornell Univ. • Bernard J. Matkowsky, Northwestern Univ. • Reinhard Schultz, Univ. of California, Riverside • Ian Nicholas Stewart, Univ. of Warwick, Coventry, UK

Medical Sciences
Eli Y. Adashi, Univ. of Utah • Gillian M. Air, Univ. of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City • Marcia Angell, Cambridge, MA • Robert C. Bast, Jr., M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX • Nancy Berliner, Yale Univ. • Jonathan Braun, Univ. of California, Los Angeles • Josephine P. Briggs, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases • Garrett M. Brodeur, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia • Robert B. Colvin, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston • Peter C. Doherty, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN • Cecilia M. Fenoglio-Preiser, Univ. of Cincinnati • David Ginsburg, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor • James M. Hughes, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, GA • Larry F. Lemanski, Texas A&M Univ., College Station • Dan L. Longo, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD • John B. Lowe, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor • Miriam Meisler, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor • Kenneth L. Mossman, Arizona State Univ. • Robert S. Munford, Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas • Frances A. Pitlick, American Society for Investigative Pathology, Bethesda, MD • William G. Powderly, Washington Univ. • Jules B. Puschett, Tulane Univ. • Jonathan I. Ravdin, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis • Stephen C. Reingold, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, New York, NY • Anne P. Sassaman, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC • Harold C. Sox Jr., Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH • Ronald Swanstrom, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill • Thea Dorothy Tlsty, Univ. of California, San Francisco • Lucy S. Tompkins, Stanford Univ. • Peter F. Weller, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston • Marvin C. Ziskin, Temple Univ.

Neuroscience
Linda Buck, Harvard Medical School • John H. Byrne, Univ. of Texas, Houston • Thomas J. Carew, Univ. of California, Irvine • William D. de Groat, Univ. of Pittsburgh • Itzhak Fried, Univ. of California, Los Angeles • John Christian Gillin, V. A. Medical Center, San Diego • Edward G. Jones, Univ. of California, Davis • Lawrence C. Katz, Duke Univ. • George F. Koob, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA • Gilles Laurent, California Institute of Technology • Mu-Ming Poo, Univ. of California, Berkeley • Joseph S. Takahashi, Northwestern Univ. • Rudolph E. Tanzi, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown • Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Univ. of California, San Francisco

Pharmaceutical Sciences
Stephen C. Brown, Ann Arbor, MI • Ji-Wang Chern, National Taiwan Univ. • John C. Drach, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor • Peter W. Schiller, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal • W. Thomas Shier, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Physics
Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks • Thomas M. Baer, Arcturus Engineering, Inc., Mountain View, CA • George J. Basbas, American Physical Society Editorial Office, Ridge, NY • Richard N. Boyd, Ohio State Univ., Columbus • Alan Chodos, American Physical Society, College Park, MD • Charles W. Clark, National Institute of Standards and Technology • E. Gail de Planque, Potomac, MD • Miriam A. Forman, State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook • Doon Gibbs, Brookhaven National Lab. • Jerry Paul Gollub, Haverford College, Haverford, PA • Sol Michael Gruner, Cornell Univ. • Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane, Princeton Univ. • Jackson R. Herring, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder • Gordon L. Kane, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor • Stephen D. Kevan, Univ. of Oregon, Eugene • Bernard V. Khoury, American Association of Physics Teachers, College Park, MD • Lawrence M. Krauss, Case Western Reserve Univ. • Johanna M. H. Levelt-Sengers, National Institute of Standards and Technology • Kelvin Gidion Lynn, Washington State Univ. • Thomas Edward Mason, Oak Ridge National Lab. • Sidney Perkowitz, Emory Univ. • Nasser Peyghambarian, Univ. of Arizona • Aron Pinczuk, Columbia Univ. • Gopal K. Shenoy, Argonne National Lab. • Robert H. Siemann, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center • Chang-Chyi Tsuei, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY • Bernard Yurke, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ

Psychology
Richard N. Aslin, Univ. of Rochester • Mahzarin R. Banaji, Yale Univ. • Stephen J. Ceci, Cornell Univ. • Susan Goldin-Meadow, Univ. of Chicago • Randi C. Martin, Rice Univ. • Nora S. Newcombe, Temple Univ. • Elissa L. Newport, Univ. of Rochester • Irene Maxine Pepperberg, Univ. of Arizona • Lynne M. Reder, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Social, Economic, and Political Sciences
Gary L. Albrecht, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago • Christopher Chase-Dunn, Univ. of California, Riverside • Michael D. Intriligator, Univ. of California, Los Angeles • Felice J. Levine, American Sociological Association, Washington, DC • Ian I. Mitroff, Univ. of Southern California • Elinor Ostrom, Indiana Univ., Bloomington • Robert E. Palmer, Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives

Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering
Halina S. Brown, Clark Univ. • Kenneth H. Keller, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis • Bartha Maria Knoppers, Univ. de Montréal • Stephen D. Nelson, AAAS • Jurgen Schmandt, Univ. of Texas, Austin • Mark H. Tumeo, Cleveland State Univ.

Statistics
Barry C. Arnold, Univ. of California, Riverside • Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill • Scott L. Zeger, Johns Hopkins Univ.