Curriculum Vitae: Penny Jane Gilmer

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Professional Address:

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4390

Personal Address:

3235 Robinhood Road
Tallahassee, FL 32312

Communication:

(850) 385-5762 (home)
(850) 644-4026 (work)
(850) 556-5320 (Cellular)
FAX: (850) 644-8281
E-mail: gilmer@chem.fsu.edu
Educational History
Institution
Date
Major
Degree
Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ 1965 Chemistry B. A.
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA 1967 Organic Chemistry M. A.
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1967-68 Bio-organic Chemistry  
University of California, Berkeley, CA
 1972 Biochemistry Ph.D.
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 1995-1997; 1999 Science Education Special Student
Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia 1997 - 2004 Science and Mathematics Education D. Sc.Ed.
Professional History (Current positions are in bold):
Year
Institution
Position
1973 - 1975 Department of Chemistry, Stanford University Bank of America Gianinni Postdoctoral Fellow
1975 - 1977 Departments of Medicine and of Chemistry, Stanford University National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow
1976 - 1977 Human Biology Program, Stanford University Acting Assistant Professor
1977 - 1984 Department of Chemistry, Florida State University Assistant Professor
1984 - 1996 Department of Chemistry, Florida State University
 Associate Professor
1990 - 1991 College of Arts & Sciences, Florida State University
 Interim Associate Dean
1991 - 1993 Department of Chemistry, Florida State University Associate Chairperson
1992 - 1995 National Science Foundation-funded Science Teacher Preparation Program, Florida State University
 Co-Director
1992 - 1995 National Science Foundation-funded Science Teacher Enhancement Program (called Science for Early Adolescence Teachers or Science FEAT), Florida State University Co-Director
1993-present Science Education, Florida State University Courtesy Appointment
1994 - 1996 Region 1 of the Higher Educational Consortium in Mathematics& Science Education (in the state of Florida)
 Chair
1997 Science and Mathematics Education Centre, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia
 Visiting Professor
1996 - present Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University Professor
1998-2004 Doctoral candidate; Curtin International Student Scholarship, at Curtin University of Technology in the Science and Mathematics Education Centre Scholarship awardee
1998 - 2002
 NSF-funded Florida Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation grant Co-Principal Investigator
2002 - 2006 NSF-funded GK-12 grant, Preparing Science Graduate Students to Meet the Challenges of K-12 Education Co-Principal Investigator
2007-2008 US Dept of Education-funded through State of Florida

Principal Investigator