Professor Moira Gunn.
USF School of Business and Professional Studies Professor Moira Gunn — most recently the creator of the four-course Biotech sequence for our MBA Program and a leader in our Academic Global Immersion Program (AGI) — has been honored with the National Science Board’s 2011 Public Service Award. In addition to her position on our faculty, Professor Gunn is the creator and host of the NPR programs TECH NATION (which she originated in 1993) and BIOTECH nation. Those broadcast programs received special notice from the NSB for their wide-spread and continuing influence in bringing matters of science and engineering into the realm of public knowledge.
Professor Gunn and her AGI students at The Eagle Pub, Cambridge where, on February 28, 1953, Crick and Watson made their first public announcement of the discovery of DNA.
"Moira Gunn's efforts to spread understanding among the public about science and engineering continue to be inspiring," said NSB Chairman Ray Bowen.
The NSB is the 25-member policymaking body for the National Science Foundation and advisory body to the president and Congress on science and engineering issues.
Drawn from universities and industry, and representing a variety of science and engineering disciplines and geographic areas, NSB members are selected for their eminence in research, education or public service and records of distinguished service.
Professor Gunn in London with Financial Times Science Editor Clive Cookson.
Read about the Biotech England Academic Global Immersion (AGI) that Professor Gunn lead to London, Oxford, and Cambridge during the recent semester break.
Read About The Wall Street Journal’s recent attention to our MBA Biotech Sequence, which WSJ marks as a prime example of USF BPS’s academic leadership in the realm of “real-world corporate feedback” as a factor in course design.
Listen to Professor Gunn and her students (Olga Levin and Karim Michael Tahir) interviewed by the Science Editor of the Financial Times, recently, from London.
