National Science Board Commission on 21st Century Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

Members

Dr. Elizabeth Strickland

Commission Executive Secretary,
Sigma-Xi National Science Board Fellow

Elizabeth Strickland holds an undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College and a Ph.D. in molecular biophysics from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. She has conducted research at the National Institutes of Health, the University of North Carolina Medical School, and Yale University School of Medicine. She has published widely on the topic of regulated protein degradation and protein folding, including the role of these processes in human disease, and has spoken at national and international conferences on her research. Dr. Strickland was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award to conduct postdoctoral research at Yale University in the field of plant molecular genetics. In addition to her work as a research scientist, Dr. Strickland has mentored high school and undergraduate students in the laboratory and led hands-on science demonstrations for school-age children at the Peabody Museum of Natural History. She was awarded the Barbara Benson Prize for prose writing from Mount Holyoke College.