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Alejandro Garcia Computational Physics	Theresa Maldonado Electrical Engineer	Joaquin Bustoz Legacy BIO Mathematics Education	Jan-Marino Ramirez Neuroethology
Ernesto Gonzalez Physician, Dermatologist Carlos Castillo-Chavez Math ematical Biology	Lydia Villa-Komaroff Molecular Biology and here... Ariel Ruiz Altaba Developmental Neurobiologist and artist	Elba Serrano NM State Neuroscience Luis Chiappe Paleontologist museum curator Dinosaur eggs	Orlando Figueroa NASA Director of the Mars Exploration Office Adriana Ocampo Geologist, Space Scientist (en espanol)
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Ines Cifuentes Seismologist --- local	Alejandro Acevedo-Gutierrez Marine Biologist	Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado Planaria research on regeneration	Bruno Sobral Bioinformatics
Ellen Ochoa Engineer and Astronaut	Mario Molina 1995 Environmental Science Nobel Prize Winner	Pedro Sanchez 2003 Macarthur Genius Award Winner Soil Science Agroforestry Earth Institute more...	Maria Velasco-Garcia Analytical Chemist
	Luis Alvarez, Nobel Prize Winner Physics
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Dinora Dominguez Clinical Trials	Eloy Rodriguez Plant Pharmacognosy		Luz Maria Rodriguez-Fernandez Surgeon

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DC ACTS goals are to facilitate the capacity of teachers in schools in Washington DC to improve content knowledge, classroom instruction strategies and resources, and assessment for tailoring instruction in science, mathematics and technology subject areas. Then teachers can provide more rigorous and standards-based course content for their classes and improve opportunities for their students to learn science through inquiry and standards-based instruction. More...

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We Are Scientists/Mathematicians/Engineers/Physicians Click on our names AND our pictures to find out about us, what we do and our career paths. Folks listed as local are local to the Washington, DC metropolitan area. (still growing as of March 18, 2004)

Visit the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native American Scientists (SACNAS) biography project

Changing the Face of Medicine

We Are Scientists/Mathematicians/Engineers/Physicians
Click on our names AND our pictures to find out about us, what we do and our career paths. Folks listed as local are local to the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
(still growing as of March 18, 2004)

Visit the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native American S cientists (SACNAS) biography project