JSHS Regional Contacts

Please contact the regional director in your area by e-mail, phone, or post. Regions are listed alphabetically by state.

Alabama
February 22-24, 2012
Dr. Catherine Shields
Alabama Junior Academy of Science
3121 Overton Dr.
Birmingham, AL 35209
Tel. (205) 871-3961
email: cldshields@yahoo.com
Web: http://www.alabamaacademyofscience.org

Alaska
March 3-4, 2012
Dr. Abel Bult-Ito
University of Alaska Fairbanks
College of Natural Science & Math, Dept. of Biology & Wildlife
307D Bunnell Bldg., P.O. Box 756100
Fairbanks, AK 99775-6100
Phone: 907-474-6482
e-mail: abultito@alaska.edu
Web: http://www.ashsss.uaf.edu

Arizona
March 30-31, 2012
B.L.  Ramakrishna, Professor 
Contact: Laura Hobson
Arizona State University
PO Box 878706, Tempe, AZ 85287-6106
Tel. 480-540-0514
email: arizonajshs@gmail.com
Web: http://azjshs.asu.edu

Arkansas
March 9-10, 2012
Ronald J. Tackett, Ph.D.
Dept. of Physical Science
Arkansas Tech University
Russellville, AR 72801
Phone: 479-968-0230
e-mail: rtackett1@atu.edu
Web: http://pls.atu.edu/jshs/

California - (Northern California & Western Nevada)
March 8-10, 2012
Roger E. Martin
Lawrence Hall of Science
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-5200
Phone: 510-642-4155
e-mail: rmartin@berkeley.edu
Web: www.lawrencehallofscience.org/jshs

Colorado
Please see Intermountain and Wyoming/E. Colorado

Connecticut
March 11-12, 2012
Joy Erickson
LSAMP
University of Connecticut
241 Glenbrook Rd., Unit 2175
Storrs, CT 06269
Phone: (860) 486-9219
e-mail: joy.erickson@uconn.edu
Web:
http://www.jshs.uconn.edu

Delaware

DoD Dependent Schools - Europe
March 5-7, 2012
Dr. Lynn Smith and Dr. Ray Smola
DoDDS-Europe
CMR 467, Box 4751
APO, AE 09096
Phone: 011-49-172-7020-620
Email: ray.smola@eu.dodea.edu
Web: http://www.ejshs.eu.dodea.edu

DoD Dependent Schools - Pacific
(including Guam, Okinawa, Korea and Japan)


March 4-8, 2012
Todd Kirby
DoDEA Pacific Area Office
Unit 35007
APO AP 96376-5007
Phone: 011-81-611-744-5678; DSN: (315)644-5678
e-mail: todd.kirby@pac.dodea.edu
Web: http://www.pac.dodea.edu

District of Columbia
January 5-6, 2012
Joy Phinizy Williams
14 Med-Dent Building
Georgetown University
3900 Reservoir Rd., NW
Washington, DC 20057-1423
Phone: 202-687-1645
e-mail: williamj@georgetown.edu

Florida
January 29-31, 2012
Christy Rodkin
Center for Precollegiate Education and Training
PO Box 112010
Gainesville, FL 32611-2010
Phone: 352-392-2310
e-mail: JSEHS@cpet.ufl.edu
Web: http://www.cpet.ufl.edu

Georgia
March 4-6, 2012
Dr. Karen Shetterley
Center for Continuing Education, University of Georgia
1197 S. Lumpkin St.
Athens, GA 30602

Contact: Gayle Burnham
Phone: 706-542-3554
e-mail: Karen.Shetterley@georgiacenter.uga.edu
Web: http://www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/oasp

Hawaii
December 2-4, 2011
Bernard Kilonsky, Univ of Hawaii
1000 Pope Rd., MSB 317
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: (808)956-6574
e-mail: kilonsky@hawaii.edu
Web: http://www.hawaii.edu/acadsci

Idaho
Please see Intermountain

Illinois - Chicago
March 31, 2012
William Kroll
Dept of Biology
Loyola University Chicago
1032 W. Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60660
Phone: 777-508-3287
e-mail: wkroll@luc.edu
Web: http://www.luc.edu/biology/jshs.shtml

Illinois
March 2-24, 2012
Julia Wetstein
Assistant Dean
College of Science, Mailcode 4403
Southern Illinois University, 1245 Lincoln Dr
Carbondale, IL 62901-4403
Phone: 618-453-7067
e-mail: jwetstein@cos.siu.edu
Web: http://www.science.siu.edu/ijshs

Indiana
March 8-10, 2012
Dr. Dave Grabowski
Department of Sciences and Mathematics
Saint Mary of the Woods College
Saint Mary of the Woods, IN 47876
Phone: 812-535-5147
e-mail: dgrabowski@smwc.edu
Web:http://www.smwc.edu/injshs

Intermountain
(Includes Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Nevada and Utah)

(Please also see Wyoming-Eastern Colorado)

March 7-10, 2012
Mateo Remsburg, Director
University of Utah
Student Recruitment & High School Services
200 South Central Campus Drive, Room 80
Salt Lake City, UT  84112
email: mremsburg@sa.utah.edu
Phone (801) 585-3257

http://www.utah.edu/futurestudents

Iowa
March 1-2, 2012
Dr. Susan Assouline
Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development
The University of Iowa
600 Blank Honors Center
Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone: 800-336-6463; 319-335-6148
e-mail: susan-assouline@uiowa.edu
Web:
http://www.belinblank.org/JSHS

Kansas-Nebraska-Oklahoma
March 2-3, 2012
Candace Thrasher, Manager, Educational outreach
Oklahoma State University
325 U Willard Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078
Tel. 405/744-8935
email: candace.lebow@okstate.edu
Web: http://education.okstate.edu/oknjshs

Louisiana
January 12-14, 2012
Shannon R. Carlson
Louisiana State University
1225 Pleasant Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-6672
e-mail: scarlson@outreach.lsu.edu
http://cms.outreach.lsu.edu/cms/PreK12/LouisianaJuniorScienceHumanitiesProgram.aspx

Maine
See Northern New England

Maryland
March 8-10, 2012
Dr. Carl White
Morgan State University
School of Engineering/CAMRA
5200 Perring Parkway, Suite 200
Baltimore, MD 21251
Tel. 443-885-3913
email: Carl.white@morgan.edu
Web:
www.istemfoundation.org/isc2012

Massachusetts
See Southern New England

Michigan - Southeastern Michigan
March 1-2, 2012
Maria Ferreira -- Contact: Sandra Yarema
College of Education, Rm. 281, 5425 Gullen Mall
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: 313-577-6370
e-mail: m.ferreira@wayne.edu
Web: http://coe.wayne.edu/ted/science/jshs/
(also see Wisconsin or Western Wisconsin-Upper Michigan)

Minnesota
See North Central

Mississippi
March 4-5, 2012
Ryan Whittington
The University of Mississippi
P.O. Box 9
University, MS 38677
Tel. 662-915-3034
email:rmwhitti@olemiss.edu

Web: http://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/academic_competitions/jshs.html

Missouri
March 15-17, 2012
Dr. Charles R. Granger
Department of Biology
University of Missouri, St. Louis
One University Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63121-4400
Contact: Nancy Diley, Asst. Director
Phone: 314-516-6226
e-mail: diley@umsl.edu
Web: http://www.umsl.edu/~sep

Montana
Please see Intermountain

Nebraska
Please see Kansas-Nebraska-Oklahoma

Nevada
Please see Intermountain and Northern California/Western Nevada

New Hampshire
Please see Northern New England

New Jersey- Monmouth
March 29-30, 2012
Dr. Datta V. Naik
Monmouth Junior Science Symposium
Monmouth University
W. Long Branch, NJ 07764
Phone: 732-571-7520
e-mail: mjss@monmouth.edu
Web: http://www.monmouth.edu/mjss

New Jersey - North New Jersey
March 7-8, 2012
Ilene Rosen, Associate Dean
Office of Student Development
Rutgers University, 98 Brett Rd., Rm. B-110
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Phone: 732-445-2687
e-mail:ilrosen@rci.rutgers.edu
Web: http://soe.rutgers.edu/jshs

New York - Long Island
April 1, 2011
Chad Korach
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794
Phone: 631-632-7114
email: jshs@stonybrook.edu
Web: http://www.stonybrook.edu/jshs

New York - Metro
February 12, 2012
Dr. Panayiotis Meleties

CUNY York College
94-20 Guy Brewer Blvd.
Jamaica, Queens, NY 11451
Phone: 718-262-2806
email: pmeleties@york.cuny.edu

New York - Upstate New York
March 19-20, 2012
Debernee Privot
University at Albany
University in the High School Program
1400 Washington Avenue, BIO 001
Albany, NY 12222
Phone: 518-442-4148
e-mail: dprivott@uamail.albany.edu
Web: http://www.albany.edu/jshs

North Carolina
March 18-19, 2012
Alisa Wickliff
Center for Math, Science & Technology Education
College of Education Bldg., Suite 222
UNC Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28223
Phone: (704) 687-8816
e-mail: abwickli@uncc.edu
Web: http://www.ncjshs.org

North Central
(Includes Minnesota, N. Dakota & S. Dakota)

March 17-18, 2012
Lise Weegman, Minnesota Academy of Science
8700 West 36th St., Suite 114W
St. Louis Park, MN 55426
Phone: 701-351-5865
e-mail:contact@mnmas.org
Web: http://www.jshs.mnmas.org

North Dakota
Please See North Central

Northern New England
(Includes Maine, New Hampshire, & Vermont)

March 29-30, 2012
Dr. Subhash Minocha
Professor of Plant Biology and Genetics
Univ of New Hampshire, Rudman Hall
Durham, NH 03824
Phone: 603-862-3840
e-mail: sminocha@unh.edu
Web: http://www.unh.edu/nnejshs

Ohio
March 21-23, 2012
Dr. Emilio Duran
Bowling Green State
University
School of Teaching and Learning
128 Life Sciences Bldg.
Bowling Green, OH 43403
Phone: 419-372-1262
Web: http://www.ojshs.org
e-mail:eduran@bgsu.edu

Oklahoma
Please see Kansas-Nebraska-Oklahoma

Oregon
February 28, 2012
Elisabeth Lampert
P.O. Box 5118
Salem, OR 97304
Tel. 503-851-8712
email: elisabethlampert@gmail.com
Web: https://sites.google.com/a/go.oes.edu/oregon-episcopal-school-jshs


Pennsylvania
March 18-20, 2012
David Klindienst
Penn State University
ARL Bldg. c/o Wendy Gilpin
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-231-1158; email: dbk3@psu.edu
Web: http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/JrScience&Humanities

Puerto Rico
March 21, 2012
Dr. Julio de Jesus, Asst. Professor
Intellexi Foundation, Turabo University
P.O. Box 418
Gurabo, PR 00778
Tel. 787-502-6123
email: julitoscoqui@yahoo.com

Rhode Island
Please see Southern New England

South Carolina
January 20, 2012
Dr. Don M. Jordan
Center for Science Education, Sumwalt Rm 323
University of South Carolina
1200 Green St
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: 803-777-7007; email: djordan@sc.edu
Web: http://www.cas.sc.edu/cse/jordan

South Dakota
Please see North Central

Southern New England
(Includes Massachusetts & Rhode Island)

March 29-30, 2012
Dr. Subhash Minocha
Professor of Plant Biology and Genetics
Univ of New Hampshire, Rudman Hall
Durham, NH 03824
Phone: 603-862-3840
e-mail: sminocha@unh.edu
Web: http://www.unh.edu/nnejshs

Tennessee
March 1-2, 2012
Dr. Engin Serpersu
University of Tennesse, College of Arts & Sciences
312 Ayres Hall
Knoxville, TN 37996-1320
Phone: 865-974-0963
Web: http://jshs-tn.utk.edu
e-mail:jrscihum@utk.edu


Texas
January 26-28, 2012

Nancy Magnussen, Ph.D.
Educational Outreach and Women's Programs, Texas A&M University
3257 TAMU, 517 Blocker Bldg.
College Station, TX 77843-3257
Phone: 979-845-7361
e-mail: nancy@science.tamu.edu
Web:
http://outreach.science.tamu.edu/tjshs.asp

Texas - El Paso Area
Please see New Mexico Southwest

Utah
Please see Intermountain

Vermont
See Northern New England

Virginia
March 15-16, 2012
Dr. Thomas C. DeVore
Chemistry and Biochemistry, MSC 4501
901 Carrier Dr
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
Phone: 540-568-7938
e-mail: devoretc@jmu.edu

Washington
March 15-16, 2012
Dr. Ray Myers
Physics Dept., Seattle Pacific University
3307 Third Ave. West
Seattle, WA 98119
Phone: 206-218-8830
e-mail: remyers@spu.edu
Web: http://www.wjshs.org

West Virginia
March 30-31, 2012
Dr. Jeanne D. Sullivan
59 College Avenue
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Buckhannon, WV 26201
Phone: 304-473-8125
e-mail: sullivan@wvwc.edu
Web:
http://www.wvwc.edu/academics/dept/biology/JSHS

Western Wisconsin/Upper Michigan
January 8-10, 2012
Gary L. Willhite, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor
300B Morris Hall, 1725 State St.
University of Wisconsin LaCrosse
LaCrosse, WI 54601
Phone: (608) 785-8130
e-mail: willhite.gary@uwlax.edu
Web: http://www.uwlax.edu/jshs

Wisconsin
February 22-23, 2012
Dr. Carole Trone, Director
Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth
University of Wisconsin
264 Teacher Education, 225 N. Mills St.
Madison, WI 53706
Tel. 608-262-0589
e-mail: cjtrone@wisc.edu

Web: http://jsehs.wcatyweb.com/

Wyoming-Eastern Colorado
March 25, 2011
Dr. Mark Lyford
Director, Life Sciences Program
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave., Dept. 3165
Laramie, WY 82701
Phone: 307-766-2818
e-mail: Mahler@uwyo.edu
Web: http://www.uwyo.edu/jshs

If you are still uncertain which region you belong to after consulting this page and the regional map page, please contact the JSHS National Office

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