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01.30.08
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Deputy Assistant Administrator
for Integration,
NASA Headquarters
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As the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Integration, James Stofan reports to the Assistant Administrator for Education. He shares responsibility for providing executive leadership, functional management and coordination of NASA's education programs and activities. The agency's goal is to meet national education needs and ensure a sufficient talent pool to preserve U.S. leadership in space exploration, aeronautical technology and science.
From September 2003 to March 2006, Stofan applied his technical and education expertise by serving as NASA's Informal Education Division Director. NASA artifacts are among the top attractions at many science and technology museums across the country. Textbooks and other reference materials must be updated frequently to include new information from NASA. The agency makes breaking news and imagery available to the relevant institutions. NASA also communicates with people through live events involving the International Space Station and shuttle crew members and through its scientists, engineers and other professionals.
Prior to joining NASA, Stofan served as the Senior Vice President for Education
Programs at the National Wildlife Federation. The nation's largest member-supported
conservation group works to educate both children and adults about maintaining
a healthy world for people and wildlife alike in the 21st century. In this role,
Stofan oversaw all of NWF's educational endeavors, including the award-winning
Ranger Rick, Your Big Backyard and Wild Animal Baby
magazines; community education efforts like the Backyard Wildlife Habitat, Earth
Tomorrow and Habitat Stewards programs; and classroom projects such as Schoolyard
Habitats and Campus Ecology.
Subsequent to joining NWF, Stofan was a faculty member and Director of Distance Education at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. There he pioneered the use of the World Wide Web as an educational tool. Johns Hopkins is the first university to offer the Master of Public Health degree to a global audience via the Internet. Stofan is a recognized speaker on the educational uses and opportunities presented by the Internet and other technologies.
Earlier in his career, Stofan spent seven years at Sea World of Florida. At
Sea World he helped develop state-of-the-art environmental education programs,
including the Emmy award-winning Shamu TV®. He also developed science
education materials used by 14 million students nationwide, as well as a ground-breaking
Internet initiative to educate people about marine science.
Stofan has served on the National Partners Council of the Points of Light Foundation, Board of Directors of National Wildlife Productions and on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of eNature.com. He is also the past Chair of the Environmental Education Coalition. He is a member of the honor societies Kappa Delta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi. He is an active member of the North American Association for Environmental Education, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, and the International Council for Educational Media.
A native of San Francisco, Jim graduated in 1989 from Johns Hopkins University with a degree in behavioral biology and sociology, and earned a master's degree in instructional technology from the University of Central Florida. He is an experienced science instructor, as well as a volunteer scuba diver at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
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