Dr. Sammartano has ten year's teaching experience at liberal arts colleges. She has been at St. Olaf College for the past seven years. She teaches Intermediate Genetics, Molecular Biology and Biology of Women. She has also supervised independent study in the areas of cultural perceptions of menstruation, smoking habits of college women with eating disorders, the history of midwifery in the United States, among others. She has also taught Human Biology in the Professional Exploration Program for five years.
PEP is an intense summer program for underrepresented first year students.
She has 10 years of experience in survey research and statistical analysis related to assessment of educational programs and labor market trends and serves as a lead investigator on applied research and data assessment projects, providing lead support in the areas of quantitative modeling and statistical techniques. In past years, she has been involved in several evaluation efforts for DOE science education programs, specifically in the statistical analysis of data available from the programs themselves, as well as utilizing other national databases on scientific personnel for comparison groups. Ms. Pennington has an M.A. and A.B.D. in economics from Vanderbilt University and a B.A. in economics and mathematics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dr. Claudia J. Rawn is a Research Staff Scientist in the Metals and Ceramics Division. She works at the Diffraction User Center in the High Temperature Materials Laboratory located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.