Dr. Richard D. Konicek-Moran
Educator, Biologist, Author |
a Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Dick has been a science educator for the past 55 years teaching at all levels before finding a place at the University of Massachusetts School of Education in 1967.
He has given many staff development workshops in science education in Africa, China, South America and Europe as well as in the United States.
His area of research is children’s alternative conceptions in science and he has published papers in Phi Delta Kappan, Science Education, Science and Children and many other journals. Dick has published four books with NSTA Press on teaching science through inquiry entitled Everyday Science Mysteries, More Everyday Science Mysteries, Even More Everyday Science Mysteries and Yet More Everyday Science Mysteries.
Dick is the recipient of a University Distinguished Teaching Award and the NSTA Presidential Citation Award. |
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Dr. Kathleen Konicek-Moran
Botanical Illustrator |
awriter, editor and educator for 30 years, Kathleen also is an award-winning botanical illustrator and artist working in graphite, colored pencil, pen and ink, and watercolor. She has created trail guides and illustrations for trail signs in the Everglades National Park, and supplied botanical and scientific illustrations for textbooks.
She is currently working on a series of watercolor fruit and vegetable portraits entitled Art for the New Kitchen. These are a series of interrelated and sometimes humorous paintings that are sized to fit on small kitchen walls and between cupboards.
She will be exhibiting her works in a show entitled Gifts from the Garden at Take Five Cookery, 755 Main Street, 1 Financial Plaza, Hartford, CT, starting in August 2011.refreshments.
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