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Credits


BSCS Development Team

Rodger W. Bybee, Principal Investigator
Mark V. Bloom, Project Director
Jerry Phillips, Senior Curriculum Developer
Lynda B. Micikas, Curriculum Developer
Anne L. Westbrook, Curriculum Developer
Wendy Haggren, Curriculum Developer
Sharmila Basu, Curriculum Developer
Sherry Herron, Curriculum Developer
Carrie Hamm, Project Assistant
Diane Conrad, Project Assistant
Karen Bertollini, Project Assistant
Raphaela Conner, Project Assistant
Doug Coulson, Evaluator
Ann Lanari, Research Assistant
Barbara Perrin, Production Manager
Ric Bascobert, Editor
Barbara Resch, Editor
Diane Gionfriddo, Photo Research
Lisa Rasmussen, Graphic Designer
Stacey Luce, Production Specialist
Angela Barnes, Typesetting

BSCS Administrative Staff

Carlo Parravano, Chair, Board of Directors
Rodger W. Bybee, Executive Director
Janet Carlson Powell, Associate Director, Chief Science Education Officer
Larry Satkowiak, Associate Director, Chief Operating Officer
Pamela Van Scotter, Director, Curriculum Development Division

National Institutes of Health

James F. Battey, Jr., Director, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Marin P. Allen, Chief, Office of Health Communication and Public Liaison (OHCPL), NIDCD
Donald Luecke, Deputy Director, NIDCD
Robert A. Dobie, Director of Extramural Research, NIDCD
Bechara Kachar, Chief, Section on Structural Cell Biology, NIDCD
Lynn Luethke, Health Science Administrator, Hearing and Balance Program, NIDCD
John P. Madison, National Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Advisory Council, NIDCD
Jennifer Wenger, OHCPL, NIDCD
Bruce Fuchs, Director, Office of Science Education (OSE)
William Mowczko, Project Officer, OSE
Bonnie Kalberer, Senior Program Analyst, OSE
Cindy Allen, Editor, OSE
Calvin D. Jackson, Office of Communications and Public Liaison, OD/NIH

Advisory Committee

Robert Burkard, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
John Niparko, Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, Baltimore, Maryland
Josina Romero O’Connell, Challenger Middle School, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Susan Wooley, American School Health Association, Kent, Ohio

Writing Team

Robert Burkard, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
JoAnne Morgan, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Linda Hood, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
Jeff Marshall, Irving Middle School, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Greg Nichols, New Options Middle School, Seattle, Washington
John Niparko, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland
Jochen Schacht, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
William Yost, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Field-Test Teachers

Angela McDaniel, Taylor County Middle School, Grafton, West Virginia
Greg Nichols, New Options Middle School, Seattle, Washington
Laurie Bricker, Sligo Middle School, Silver Spring, Maryland
Terri Clock, Bunker Middle School, Muskegon, Michigan

Net F.Y.I., Inc.

James Chin
Raymond Liu

SAIC

Bach Nguyen, Project Manager
Steve Larson, Web Director
Doug Green, Project Lead
Tommy D’Aquino, Multimedia Director
Paul Ayers, Lead Multimedia Developer
John James, Multimedia Developer
Jeff Ludden, Multimedia Programmer
Dave Nevins, Audio Engineer
Jessica Butter, Senior Web Developer
Katie Riley, Web Developer

Voice-Overs

Dave Nevins, SAIC
Raymond Liu, Net F.Y.I., Inc.
Deborah Lincoln, SAIC
Steve Winegar, SAIC
Rebecca Leimert Holderness, SAIC
Steve Larson, SAIC
Becky Tolley, SAIC

Edge Interactive

Terry Wallace, Senior Project Manager
Elizabeth Bernal, Senior Instructional Designer
George Rosales, Art Director
Bill Bolduc, Software Development Manager
Mark Stevens, Multimedia Engineer
Greg Banse, Multimedia Engineer

Cover Design

Karen Cook, Medical Arts and Photography Branch, National
Institutes of Health

Cover Illustration

Salvador Bru

FIGURE CREDITS

Jim Battey photo: National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health; Hair cell image after Dr. Battey’s letter and p. 158: A. James Hudspeth, M.D., Ph.D.

Teacher Background

1a, 17: Corel; 1b, c: Comstock; 3a, b: PhotoDisc; 3c: Jason Pope; 4: Konrad Lorenz archives; 8: National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health; 15a, b, c: Figures from “The Inner Ear and its Mechanical Response” in Fundamentals of Hearing: An Introduction (4th Ed.), by William A. Yost, © 2000 by Academic Press, reproduced by permission of the publisher; 16: From Cochlear Implants, Principles and Practices, by J.K. Niparko, K.I. Kirk, N.K. Mellon, A.M. Robbins, D.L. Tucci, and B.S. Wilson, © 2000 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Lesson 1

1.1 (English, Moroccan): Corel; 1.1 (all others): © Dr. Lightfoot; 1.2: James Wadsworth family papers, photographer. Matthew B. Brady, ca.1896. Selected Civil War photographs, 1861–1865, Library of Congress; 1.4: © George Jameson; Master 1.2: © ClipArt.com.

Lesson 2

2.2a, b: Eyewire; 2.3: Comstock.

Lesson 3

3.3a: Eyewire; 3.3b: PhotoDisc; 3.4, 3.5, Master 3.4: SAIC.

Lesson 4

4.1, 4.2, 4.5, Master 4.3: SAIC; 4.3a, c: Corel; 4.3b: Comstock; 4.4, Master 4.1, Master 4.4: © ClipArt.com; 4.6: National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health.

Lesson 5

5.1a, c: PhotoDisc; 5.1b: © ClipArt.com; 5.2a, b, Master 5.1: Figures from “The Inner Ear and its Mechanical Response” in Fundamentals of Hearing: An Introduction (4th Ed.), by William A. Yost, © 2000 by Academic Press, reproduced by permission of the publisher; 5.3: © RadioShack Corporation; 5.4, 5.5, 5.6: Corel; 5.7: Eyewire.

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