[嘆息] Dr.Campbell
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標題: [嘆息] Dr.Campbell
時間: Sun Oct 31 08:55:00 2004
http://www.phschool.com/science/neil_campbell/
就是大家熟知的康伯伯。
Neil A. Campbell, 58, loving husband, father, brother, gifted educator,
and world-renowned author passed away
from complications following a heart attack on October 21,
2004. Dr. Campbell was a source of inspiration for many,
and we are all better for having worked, lived, and laughed with him.
Ever the visionary, Dr. Campbell leaves behind a rich legacy
of scholarship and an immeasurable contribution to the education
of millions of students of biology at the high school and college
levels.
To appreciate the sheer magnitude of Dr. Campbell's impact on
biology education consider that over five million students have
used his biology textbooks since 1987, and currently over 500,000
students use one of his books each year, including 85% of students
in the growing U.S. high school Advanced Placement* programs. Sixty
percent of Americans under the age of 35 in the fields of biology,
biotechnology, biology education, and health careers began their
college studies with Dr. Campbell's Biology textbook. In fact,
Biology, soon to be released in its seventh edition, is the most
widely used English-language scientific textbook in the world.
In Canada, in Australia, in the United Kingdom, in the
Scandinavian countries and virtually everywhere university-level
biology and pre-health science majors use English language
textbooks, Biology is the core introductory textbook of choice.
But the influence of Biology is not limited to the English language.
It has also been translated into many languages, including Spanish,
German, French, Italian, and Korean to name a few.
Combining strong scholarship and uncanny teaching sensibilities,
Dr. Campbell captured in words and pictures the central points and
important debates of the diverse fields that comprise modern
biology—from cellular and molecular biology to plant and animal
physiology to ecology and behavior. Equally important, he learned
from extensive classroom experience how to engage students in the
subject matter. In fact, the teaching values and pedagogical
innovations introduced by Dr. Campbell have been widely emulated, not
only in other biology textbooks but in many other disciplines as well.
In 1996, he provided the vision for The Biology Place, an online
learning community harnessing the Web's unique capability to
facilitate collaboration and exploit the wealth of resources available
on the Web to support project-based instruction. The Biology Place was
extremely innovative and demonstrated Dr. Campbell's ability to
expand his influence to an entirely new medium. In 1999, his work
on The Biology Place led to a $1 million NSF grant to assess the
impact of online materials on high school students taking biology
in the ninth and tenth grades. One outgrowth of this initiative is
the publication of Exploring Life, a book on which Dr. Campbell
served as lead author. Exploring Life is the first science textbook
at any level to integrate required Web-based activities within the
conceptual framework of the text, working toward this hybridization
of text and Web resources from the book's very inception.
Dr. Campbell combined the investigative nature of a research scientist
with the soul of an experienced and caring teacher. His enthusiasm for
sharing the fun of science with students stemmed from his own
undergraduate experience. He began at Long Beach State College as a
history major, but switched to zoology after general education
requirements "forced" him to take a science course. Following a
B.S. from Long Beach, he earned an M.A. in Zoology from UCLA and
a Ph.D. in Plant Biology from the University of California,
Riverside, where he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2001.
Dr. Campbell published numerous research articles on how certain
desert and coastal plants thrive in salty soil and how the sensitive
plant (Mimosa) and other legumes move their leaves. His 30 years of
teaching in diverse environments include general biology courses at
Cornell University, Pomona College, and San Bernardino Valley College
where he received the college's first Outstanding Professor Award in
1986. Most recently, Dr. Campbell was a visiting scholar in the
Department of Botany and Plant Sciences at the University of
California, Riverside.
Dr. Campbell had an abiding commitment to the improvement of science
education at all levels. Now his work will be carried forth by his
team of dedicated co-authors and editors, who will keep alive his
exceptional body of work which will continue to shape the field
of biology in the minds of students at university and high
school levels and around the world.
His publishers at Pearson Education extend their heartfelt
condolences to Dr. Campbell's loving wife, daughter, brother,
and extended family. To honor Dr. Campbell, Pearson Education
is announcing a Memorial Scholarship Fund to recognize and support
inner city students who, like Dr. Campbell, aspire to pursue an
undergraduate education in the sciences. His work will live on
with these students and the textbooks that will continue to shape
generations of students.
A memorial service will be held at a later date at the University
of California, Riverside.
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