Academic Administrator
Resume:
William James Hahn
Bethesda, MD 20816
telephone: 646-***-****; email: *****@**********.***; ******@***.***
QUALIFICATIONS
Twenty years experience academic management of undergraduate and graduate
degree programs including curriculum development, teaching, student
services, faculty support, program evaluation, and budgetary development
and oversight. Maintenance of externally-funded research programs in
environmental and evolutionary biology, review of scientific research
proposals, and evaluation of sustainable development, conservation biology,
and environmental sustainability management plans. Membership on numerous
university and external committees concerned with interdisciplinary
academic programs, international education, science programming, premedical
studies, education program assessment, and curricular review. Three years
experience as program director of a $145M graduate education program at NSF
managing all aspects of the program including program design, pedagogical
enhancements, outreach and recruitment, application design, panel review
oversight, contractor management, data collection and analysis, liaison
with students, faculty, and administrators at 150+ universities,
coordination with other federal agencies and non-profit organizations,
federal reporting, budgeting, and accounts monitoring.
EDUCATION
1985 B.A. (Biology), Washington University (St. Louis)
1990 M.Sc. (Botany), Cornell University
1993 Ph.D. (Botany), University of Wisconsin, Madison
EMPLOYMENT
1987-1989, In-country Researcher, Flora of the Guianas, Smithsonian
Institution
1989-1993, Teaching & Research Assistant, Botany Department.,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
1993-1995, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Molecular
Systematics, Smithsonian Institution
1995-1996, Research Associate, Lab of Molecular Systematics,
Smithsonian Institution
1996-2001, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Earth & Environmental
Science, Columbia University
2001-2002, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, &
Environmental Biology, Columbia University
2002-2003, Associate Professor, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, &
Environmental Biology, Columbia University
2003-2010, Associate Dean and Associate Research Professor of Biology,
Georgetown University
2006-2009, Program Director (IPA), Division of Graduate Education,
National Science Foundation
2009-pres., Affiliate Professor of Biology, Georgetown University
2010-2013, Assistant Dean, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown
University
COMMITTEES AND SERVICE
National Science Foundation
Program Director, Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Panel Chair, IGERT Biological Sciences panel
Alternate Education and Human Resources rep to NSF Cyberenabled
Discovery and Innovation Working Group
Program Officer for Science and Technology Centers
COTR for $2M/yr outreach and panel review operations center contract
Requirements determiner for $1M/yr IT contract for the GRFP
Member of $1.5M/yr GRFP evaluation contract oversight committee
Advisor to grants.gov requirements group and Committee on Equal
Opportunity in Science and Engineering
Georgetown University
2003-2006, Director, Interdisciplinary Programs, Georgetown College
2003-2006, Undergraduate Science Admissions Committee, Georgetown
College
2003-2006, GU-Qatar Advisory Committee
2004-2006, Chair, Premedical Recommendation Committee
2004-2006, GU Undergraduate Research Opportunities (GUROP) Advisory
Committee
2003-2004, Main Campus Education Abroad Advisory Committee
2011-2012, MBA Curriculum Renewal Committee
2010-present, GU Environment Initiative Steering Committee
Columbia University
1996-2003, Director Undergraduate Studies, Environmental Biology,
Columbia University
1997-2001, Departmental Representative, Dept. of Earth and
Environmental Science
1998-2003, Member, Biosphere 2 Center Partner Institution Committee
2000-2003, Member, Task Force on Undergraduate Environmental Education
2001-2003, Departmental Representative, Dept. of EEEB, Columbia
University
2002-2003, Rabi Scholars Fellowship Committee, Columbia University
Profession
1995-2000, Contributor, GenBank Taxonomy Project
(http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/)
1995-2005, Moderator of Monocots for the Tree of Life World Wide Web
Pages (http://tolweb.org/tree/)
1995-2001, Systematic Biology, editorial board
1998-2004, Chair, IUCN Species Survival Commission, Palm Specialist
Group
1998-2001, Chair, Botanical Society of America, Conservation Committee
1999-2006, Chair, Plants Panel, Committee on Recently Extinct
Organisms
2001, Panelist, National Security Educational Program International
Fellowships
2002-2006, 2010-2011, 2013, Panelist, National Science Foundation
Graduate Research Fellowships
2009-2011, Panelist, National Science Foundation, Office of
International Science and Engineering
2010-2011, Panelist, National Science Foundation, Office of
Cyberinfrastructure
Community
2001-2002, Advisor, The Discovery Center at St. George Station, Staten
Island
2002, Consultant, Ecology edition, Kids Discover magazine
2011-present, Treasurer, Mohican Swimming Pool Association
2013-present, Advisor, Science Experiment, Cesar Chavez Public Charter
School, Washington, DC
GRANTS AND AWARDS
1991, NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant ($16,500, supplement
$2,500).
1993, NSF DEB-9303266, Chloroplast and Nuclear Sequence Phylogenetics
of the Palmae", ($69,600).
1995, Smithsonian Research Fellowship, 18S rDNA Sequence Phylogenetics
of the Monocots, ($25,000)
1998, MacIntyre-Stennis, Allelic Diversity in Adirondack Forest
Stands: Old- Growth Versus Managed Stands, co-PIs: J. Gibbs, D.
Leopold, and S. Rogers, ($60,000).
2002, NSF DEB-0212779, Phylogenetic and biogeographic studies of
subtribe Butiinae (Cocoeae, Palmae), co-PI: Larry Noblick, ($236,130).
Eight additional internal and external grants totaling $55,000
ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Forty peer-reviewed articles.
Twelve different university courses taught to undergraduate and
graduate students.
Thesis advisor to 2 PhD students, 3 MA students, and 5 BA students.
Committee membership on 13 additional graduate student committees.
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