BHEW Staff Biographies

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Rae Allen	Administrative Coordinator
Charlotte Kuh	Deputy Executive Director of PGA
Peter Henderson	Director
James McKinney	Financial Officer
Kara Murphy	Research Associate
John Sislin	Program Officer
Jim Voytuk	Senior Program Officer

	Charlotte V. Kuh is the Deputy Executive Director of the Policy and Global Affairs Division in the National Research Council. In this capacity she oversees the Committee on Women in Science and Engineering and the Board on Higher Education and Workforce, and serves as the staff officer for the 2005 Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs. Dr. Kuh also oversees the Fellowships programs that select over three hundred post-doctoral fellows annually for positions in national laboratories, as well as those programs that select recipients of pre- and post-doctoral fellowships sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Vietnam Educational Foundation. Before coming to the Academies Dr. Kuh was director of the Graduate Record Examinations at the Educational Testing Service, where she initiated the first computerization of a national admissions test and a program of research designed to introduce measurement of a broader range of student talents for use in graduate admissions. She has also been a manager at AT&T and has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and at Stanford University. She has served on a number of National Research Council study committees and on advisory committees for the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the National Science Foundation, and the New York University School of Law. She currently serves as Treasurer and Member of the Board of the American Council of Learned Societies. Dr. Kuh received a B.A., magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard University and a Ph.D., also in economics, from Yale University. She is a Fellow of the Association for Women in Science.
	Peter H. Henderson is director of the National Academies' Board on Higher Education and Workforce. His areas of specialization include postsecondary education, the labor market for scientists and engineers, and federal science and technology research funding. He currently oversees BHEW's Evaluation of the Lucille P. Markey Trust Programs in Biomedical Science and CWSE's Gender Differences in the Careers of Science, Engineering and Mathematics Faculty and is also participating in BHEW's Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs. He has previously contributed as study director or staff to a variety of education and workforce studies including Building a Workforce for the Information Economy, Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D.s to K-12 Education, Assessment of NIH Minority Research Training Programs, and Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers. He has also contributed to a variety of studies focused on the research enterprise, including: Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future, Measuring the Science and Engineering Enterprise, Trends in Federal Support of Research and Graduate Education, and Observations on the President's Federal Science and Technology Budget. Dr. Henderson holds a Master in Public Policy (1984) from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a Ph.D. in American Political History from The Johns Hopkins University (1994). He joined the National Academies staff in 1996 and is the recipient of the National Academies' Distinguished Service Award (2003).
	John Sislin, Program Officer, focuses on topics in international affairs, higher education, globalization, and the impact of science and technology on society and security. His work on international affairs includes: developing a system to monitor compliance with international labor standards for the U.S. Department of Labor; development of a biographical database on world leaders sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation; and a project to survey life scientists’ attitudes toward personal responsibility regarding dual-use research with biosecurity implications. Dr. Sislin’s work in higher education has focused on gender (three projects on recruiting, retaining, and advancing women in science and engineering in higher education and academic careers) and the role of community colleges in educating future engineers. Other projects include a study of priorities in civil aeronautics research sponsored by NASA. Before coming to the Academies, Dr. Sislin's previous research focused on international and civil conflict, human rights, international security, and U.S. foreign policy. Dr. Sislin received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in Russian and East European Studies and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University.
	Jim Voytuk, Senior Program Officer, provides technical support and analysis for projects dealing with the demographics of the science and engineering workforce, career transitions and labor market issues for scientists and engineers, and graduate education and postdoctoral training. His current projects involve the development of the 2005 Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs, the Study of National Needs for Biomedical, Behavioral, and Clinical Personnel, and the Evaluation of the Resident Research Associateship Programs. Dr. Voytuk received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Carnegie Institute of Technology.