Jane Maienschein is Regents' Professor and Parents Association Professor at Arizona State University. She directs the Center for Biology and Society and serves as faculty chair of the Human Dimensions of Biology group within the School of Life Sciences. Her research focuses on the History and Philosophy of Science, and her most recent book is Whose View of Life? Embryos, Cloning, and Stem Cells (Harvard University Press, 2003). She serves as co-editor of the Journal of the History of Biology, worked as Science Advisor to Arizona Congressman Matt Salmon during the 105th Congress, and chaired the Advisory Committee for NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate during that time. She is keenly interested in the history and nature of science, and how we can convey that to a wider public. She conducts educational programs on the nature of science for judges through the Federal Judicial Center and through ASU's President's Community Enrichment Program. Dr. Maienschein served as leader for the committee to revise Arizona's state science standards in 1997/1998 and has been working with the Board of Education this year to retain evolution in those standards. She was educated at Yale University (B.A. in History, the Arts, and Letters) and Indiana University (Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science, with Zoology Minor), and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association for Women in Science.