# National Center for Science Education

Il National Center for Science Education (NCSE) è un'organizzazione no-profit con sede a Oakland, in California affiliata con l'American Association for the Advancement of Science. Il National Center for Science Education è un'organizzazione senza scopo di lucro, la cui missione dichiarata è quella di educare la stampa e il pubblico sugli aspetti scientifici ed educativi delle polemiche che circondano l'insegnamento dell'evoluzione e dei cambiamenti climatici, e di fornire informazioni e risorse alle scuole, ai genitori e ad altri cittadini che si battono per l'istruzione scientifica nella scuola pubblica. Il National Center for Science Education ha oltre 4.500 membri tra scienziati, insegnanti, sacerdoti, e cittadini di varie appartenenze religiose e politiche. Il centro si oppone all'insegnamento di opinioni religiose nelle lezioni di scienze delle scuole pubbliche americane attraverso iniziative come il progetto Steve, ed è considerato la più importante organizzazione anti-creazionista negli Stati Uniti. Tra i sostenitori dell'organizzazione ci sono Bruce Alberts, ex presidente della National Academy of Sciences; Donald Johanson, scopritore del fossile "Lucy"; e il biologo evoluzionista Francisco J. Ayala. Anche il paleontologo e scrittore Stephen Jay Gould è stato per lungo tempo un sostenitore dell'attività dell'NCSE.

## Staff e sostenitori
### Direttori

* Barbara Forrest — Southeastern Louisiana University
* Michael Haas — Orion Renewable Energy Group
* Richard B. Katskee — Americans United for Separation of Church and State
* Kenneth R. Miller — Brown University
* Barry Polisky
* Benjamin D. Santer — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
** Ex Officio, Executive Director: Ann Reid

### Officers

* President: Francisco J. Ayala — University of California, Irvine
* Vice President/Treasurer: Lorne Trottier — Matrox
* Secretary: Robert M. West — Informal Learning Experiences, Inc.

### Staff

* Executive Director: Ann Reid
* Deputy Director: Glenn Branch
* Director of Operations: Rae Holzman
* Director of Communications: Robert Luhn
* Programs and Policy Director:
** Joshua Rosenau
** Steven Newton
* Director of Community Organizing and Research: Emily Schoerning
* Editor, Reports of the NCSE: Stephanie Keep
* Program Coordinator: Claire Adrian-Tucci
* Office Manager: Nina Hollenberg

### Consiglio consultivo

* Chair: Eugenie C. Scott – National Center for Science Education
* Bruce Alberts — University of California, San Francisco
* Francisco J. Ayala — University of California, Irvine
* Frederick Borsch — Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
* Stephen G. Brush — University of Maryland
* Sean B. Carroll — University of Wisconsin, Madison
* Johnnetta B. Cole — Smithsonian Institution
* Joel Cracraft — American Museum of Natural History
* Brent Dalrymple — Oregon State University
* James E. Darnell, Jr. — Rockefeller University
* Richard E. Dickerson — University of California, Los Angeles
* Robert H. Dott, Jr. — University of Wisconsin, Madison
* James D. Ebert† — Chesapeake Institute of Johns Hopkins University
* Niles Eldredge — American Museum of Natural History
* Milton Fingerman — Tulane University
* Douglas J. Futuyma — University of Michigan
* Alfred G. Gilman — University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
* Laurie Godfrey — University of Massachusetts
* Ursula Goodenough — Università Washington a Saint Louis
* Stephen Jay Gould† — Harvard University
* James Hansen - Goddard Institute for Space Studies (ret.)
* Donald Hornig† — Harvard University
* Norman H. Horowitz† — California Institute of Technology
* Francis Clark Howell† — University of California, Berkeley
* Duane E. Jeffery — Brigham Young University
* Donald Johanson — Institute for Human Origins
* Patricia Kelley — University of North Carolina, Wilmington
* Philip Kitcher — Columbia University
* Richard C. Lewontin — Harvard University
* Michael MacCracken - Climate Institute
* Paul MacCready† — Aerovironment, Inc.
* Michael E. Mann — Pennsylvania State University
* Lynn Margulis† — University of Massachusetts
* Malcolm McKenna† — American Museum of Natural History
* Bill McKibben - 350.org
* Keith B. Miller — Kansas State University
* Kenneth R. Miller — Brown University
* John A. Moore† — University of California, Riverside
* David Morrison — NASA Ames
* Dorothy Nelkin† — New York University
* Bill Nye — TV Scientist
* Kevin Padian — University of California, Berkeley
* William S. Pollitzer† — University of North Carolina
* Kevin Padian, University of California, Berkeley
* Robert L. Park — University of Maryland
* Joseph E. Rall† — National Institutes of Health
* James Randi — James Randi Educational Foundation
* Michael Ruse — Florida State University
* James W. Skehan, S.J. — Weston Observatory (Boston College)
* Elliott Sober — University of Wisconsin, Madison
* Frank Sonleitner — University of Oklahoma
* Richard Stucky — Denver Museum of Nature & Science
* Marvalee Wake — University of California, Berkeley
* Mary Jane West-Eberhard — Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
* Tim D. White — University of California, Berkeley
    [† = deceduti]