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Mark Bloom
Project Director
Science Educator
mbloom@bscs.org
Mark Bloom has a Ph.D. in biology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He joined the staff of BSCS in April 1999 and headed the revision team for the Teachers Resource Book, associated with BSCS Biology: A Molecular Approach, 8th ed., a comprehensive honors-biology textbook. Since coming to BSCS, he has directed the development of eight print- and Web-based curriculum modules for middle school and high school students sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy.
Bloom developed curriculum and professional development materials in collaboration with other organizations including: Oregon Public Broadcasting, WGBH, Boston, MA, the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, and The Nutrients for Life Foundation, Washington, DC. Currently, Bloom is developing curricular materials about evidence-based medicine for the Foundation for Blood Research in Scarborough, ME and serving as a writer for a comprehensive multimedia biology course being developed by Agile Mind and the Charles Dana Center at the University of Texas. Prior to coming to BSCS, Bloom served ten years as assistant director of the DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, New York. He was responsible for developing educational curricula and grant proposals, coordinating workshop programs, managing a teaching laboratory, and teaching. Bloom is a coauthor of the Complete Idiot’s Guide to Decoding Your Genes, Alpha Books (1999), the first author of the college lab manual, Laboratory DNA Science, Benjamin/Cummings (1996), and in 1994 developed the first educational kits that provided hands-on experience with the polymerase chain reaction. His workshop programs instructed over 3,000 high school and college faculty at 125 workshops conducted in 40 states and 7 foreign countries.
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