Jeanne Ting Chowning, MS
Education Director

Jeanne Chowning serves as Program Director for "Collaborations to Advance Understanding of Science and Ethics" (CAUSE), a Science Education Partnership Award grant from the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health. This program, a collaborative effort with the University of Washington, features the development of teacher workshops and engaging classroom resources geared to help middle and high school teachers and students address the ethical dimensions of science. She is the lead author of NWABR's An Ethics Primer, and supervised the development of additional curricular materials including Stem Cells: Science and Ethics and The Science and Ethics of HIV Vaccine Clinical Trials. Since 2003, she has organized and led NWABR's Ethics in the Science Classroom workshop.

Jeanne also helped found the Student Biotechnology Expo. The Expo received a 2002 Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Education from KCTS Channel 9 and received special recognition from the Metropolitan King County Council in 2004. Her article describing the Expo was featured in the May 2002 issue of the American Biology Teacher magazine.

Jeanne is currently serving as Curriculum/Design Associate with the Education Development Center, Inc. on a Bioethics Curriculum supplement for the Office of Science Education at the National Institutes of Health. She been involved in numerous additional NWABR curriculum development projects, including 'For the Greater Good' (animals in research), 'Consumer Awareness' (product safety testing), and Pharmacogenetics. She has been involved in leading a collaborative effort of life science education outreach programs throughout the Pacific Northwest (the Life Science Education Advancement Partnership) in organizing 'Summit' meetings to share ideas and explore future partnerships. In addition, she manages the NWABR website and writes grants in support of the education outreach of the organization.

Prior to joining the staff of NWABR, Jeanne was a Science Project Lead for BioLab, a non-profit state-of-the-art research lab where high school students could conduct original research in a supervised setting. Jeanne also developed a pioneering high school biotechnology program at Juanita High School in Kirkland, Washington, where she was a biology teacher and science department chairperson.

She is past-president of the Board of Trustees of the Washington Biotechnology Foundation, and served on the Board for six years. She is currently the co-President of the Genetics Advisory Committee for the Washington State Department of Health. She is a 2005 alumnus of Leadership Tomorrow, Seattle's civic service leadership program, and later served as a coach and project liaison. She contributes her efforts to many additional regional and national projects related to science education and ethics.

Jeanne has a B.A. in Biology from Cornell University and a B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. She earned her teaching certification, as well as an M.S. in Biology, from the University of Washington.

NWABR is a 501(c)3 organization. All contributions are tax deductible.
The NWABR web site was made possible by funding from the National Center for Research
Resources and the National Institutes of Health through a Science Education Partnership Award.

Copyright 1999-2007 Northwest Association for Biomedical Research
All rights reserved.