Herbert D. Thier

Academic Administrator Emeritus
University of California, Berkeley
Co-Director E/PO BioMars Project and Founding Director: SEPUP
Phone: 925-376-6892
Fax: 925-376-7781
email: thier@berkeley.edu
Mailing address:
142 Hodges Drive
Moraga, CA 94556


CV: HERBERT D. THIER

Throughout over forty years of leadership of Instructional Materials Development and Teacher Enhancement projects, Thier’s emphasis has been on providing all students with challenging opportunities to learn science and how to apply the evidence based approach of science to decisions in their daily lives.

    PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

  • Co- Principal Investigator for the Education and Public Outreach component of the Bio-Mars Project, a NASA Astrobiology Center grant in the Center for Integrative Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley, 2004-present.
  • Serves on the advisory board of the University of California, Davis, Biophotonics Center.
  • Advisory board member of the Questioning our World through Science and Technology (IQWST) Project at Northwestern University.
  • Founding Director of the Science Education for Public Understanding Program [SEPUP]
  • Consultant to the Engineering Design Project of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of the University of Virginia.
  • Currently developing, with Marlene Thier and others, “Sustain Us” a science instructional program on Sustainable and Renewable Energy for the Hong Kong Secondary Schools. China Light and Power Company (CLP), the electrical utility for Kowloon in Hong Kong, sponsors the project.
  • Senior Fullbright Specialist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in relation to this project and science teacher education generally, October 2004
  • Visiting Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, 1995.
  • His latest book titled: Developing Inquiry-Based Science Materials: A Guide for Educators was published in June 2001 by Teachers College Press.
  • Science teacher, science coordinator and school administrator, 1954 - 1963.

    AWARDS AND HONORS:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  • Listed in Marquis' Who's Who in America.
  • Distinguished Service to Science Education Award, of the National Science Teachers Association, 1994.

    EDUCATION:

  • B.A. in Physics and Biology,State University of New York, Albany, 1953.
  • M. A. in School Administration, State University of New York, Albany 1954.
  • Ed. D. in Curriculum and Administration, New York University, 1962.