Addison E. Lee Scholarship in Science Education
Deanna Buckley
Deanna Buckley is the 2009-2010 recipient of the prestigious award, the Addison E. Lee Scholarship in Science Education. Deanna grew up near Washington D.C. in the Prince George's County School District. She moved to Picayune, Mississippi to finish high school. She received a bachelor's degree from the College of Science and Technology at the University of Southern Mississippi in Biology and Science Education. She taught in the public schools as a high school science teacher, in south Mississippi for 17 years. During this time she coached varsity soccer, served as secretary for the state level Science and Engineering Fairs, President of the local South Mississippi Chemistry Teacher's organization SEMCRA and served as mentor for the National Science Foundation's project in the state for DNA Literacy. She returned to graduate school and obtained a Master's degree from the College of Science and Technology in Chemistry and Science Education from the University of Southern Mississippi. She worked as a field coordinator and classroom teacher coach for the National Science Foundation in the Delta Rural Systemic Initiative. She moved to Austin to work developing curriculum in biomedical engineering for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which was published in Annals of Biomedical Engineering. She currently works as a teaching assistant for Research Methods in the UTeach Program, as a science specialist for Girlstart, and as a science teacher and curriculum developer for ACE Academy in Austin, Texas. Her dissertation focuses on interactive dialogue between professors in UTeach research methods courses and future mathematics and science teachers while developing four of their own open inquiries during the semester. Her interest beyond graduation, which she expects to be 2010, will include how this dialogue translates to high school math and science classrooms.
