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Jeff Weld
Jeffrey "Jeff" Weld (born August 17, 1960 in Glendale, California) is a science educator serving as executive director of the Iowa Governor's STEM Advisory Council STEM〔 since its launch in July, 2011.〔 He is an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) in Cedar Falls, Iowa.〔
Weld is a prolific author, focusing on surmounting impediments to high quality science teaching.〔 As a secondary school science teacher he was awarded as Ciba-Geigy 1993 Life Science Teacher of the Year in Iowa,〔 the 1994 Pella Corporation Focus on Teaching Excellence award,〔 and in 1995 a national Access Excellence Fellowship of the Genentech corporation.〔 As a college professor Weld was named national collegiate biology teacher of the year, four-year institutions in 2007 by the National Association of Biology Teachers.〔 In 2013, Weld received an ''Outstanding Service'' award from the Iowa Academy of Science〔 and an ''Alumni Accomplishment Honor'' from his alma mater, the University of Iowa.〔 In 2014, he received a ''STEM Champion'' award from the Triangle Coalition.〔
== Early Life and Education ==
Weld is fifth of six offspring (Vicki, Douglas, Rhonda, Sandra, Eric) of single parent Aileen (Feany) Weld, a career government servant, first for the FBI (1951–52) then for the Veterans Administration (1969-1993, now retired). Weld’s father Don had served in the Marine Corp and written for newspapers. Weld spent his early school years 1969 to 1977 in Iowa City, Iowa before relocating to Northampton, Massachusetts and graduating from Northampton High School in 1978. A first-generation collegian, he attended Greenfield Community College in Massachusetts before transferring to the University of Iowa in 1980. He earned a bachelor of science degree in secondary education from the University of Iowa in 1983. After serving Camp Fire youth camps in Anchorage, Alaska followed by ski lodge maintenance at Millers Inn, Winter Park, Colorado, he returned to the University of Iowa for graduate study, completing an endorsement in science education (biology) in 1985. From 1990 to 1992 Weld enrolled in the Master’s program in biology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He completed a Master’s degree in Science Education at the University of Iowa in 1994. In 1998, Weld completed the doctoral program in Science Education at the University of Iowa under John Penick and Robert Yager, earning competencies in ecology for work in predator-prey aquatic population regulation, and endocrinology for work on molt hormone synthesis in Cancer antennarius.〔
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