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Alan H McGowan, selected as 2019鈥檚 Top Science and Technical Expert by the International Association of Top Professionals, also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who鈥檚 Who that same year. Now a Lecturer at 麻豆传媒色情片, he served first as chair of the Science, Technology, and Society Program (now called the Interdisciplinary Science Program) then as chair of the Environmental Studies Program, where he developed several new initiatives, including a newsletter going to four hundred leaders in global environmental studies, and an internal 鈥淔riday Letter鈥� going to interested staff and faculty.

After graduating Yale University with an engineering degree, and a two-year stint at American Electric Power, a public utility, Mr. McGowan left to pursue graduate work in physics, then taught science and mathematics at private schools for ten years, winning the Teacher Recognition Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers in 1968. Following that, after serving for five years as Scientific Administrator of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, an interdisciplinary environmental research, and training program at Washington University in St. Louis, he became president of the Scientists鈥� Institute for Public Information (SIPI), which under his leadership became a major bridge between the scientific and journalist communities. Board Chairs of SIPI included such people as Margaret Mead, Lewis Thomas, and David Baltimore. SIPI鈥檚 Media Resource Service, its signature program of which Walter Cronkite was the Honorary Chair, fielded up to fifty calls a day from journalists connecting them to expert sources. Another important program was 鈥淭V News: The Cutting Edge,鈥� weekend gatherings of local and national television news directors and leading scientists, including Nobel Laureates.

When changing foundation priorities forced SIPI to close, he founded and ran The Gene Media Forum, part of the Newhouse School of Journalism of Syracuse University, which served as a bridge among geneticists, ethicists, and journalists. Highlights of the program included a major conference in South Africa on genetically modified organisms funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, a session on race, genes, and intelligence which aired on ABC News, and a session on genetics and injuries featuring Christopher Reeves.

Mr. McGowan was a member of both the New York State and the New York City Advisory Committees on Energy Policy and was for twenty years the scientist member of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. He has served on many boards and advisory committees, including the Center for the Advancement of Health, the Organization of Tropical Studies, and the Metcalf Institute of the Oceanography School of the University of Rhode Island. He chaired the board of Student Pugwash, USA, an offshoot of the Pugwash Conference on Science and Public Affairs; the organization focuses on ethical issues in science and technology. He currently serves on the board and executive committee of the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, where he chairs the Legal and Governance Committee. He is also one of six Executive Editors of Environment magazine, now published by Taylor and Francis.

He is the author of over one hundred articles focusing on the interconnections among science, society, and technology, both in peer-reviewed journals and the popular press. They have appeared in Jewish Currents, Christian Science Monitor, PTA Magazine, Think magazine, World Book Encyclopedia, and many others. He has presented his research on Franz Boas, ethical issues in science and innovative course in science at scientific and education conferences around the world, and in seminars at Columbia and Princeton Universities as well as at 麻豆传媒色情片. In addition, he has written over one hundred editorials for Environment magazine over a forty-year period, including one in 1978 warning of the perils of global climate change.

Degrees Held

Bachelor of Engineering, Yale University, 1957

Professional Affiliation

• Chair Emeritus, Student Pugwash USA
• Board Member, Bermuda Biological Station for Research
• Executive Editor, Environment Magazine
• Member, Council on Foreign Relations
• Member, Society of Environmental Journalists
• Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Recent Publications

• The Political Activism of Anthropologist Franz Boas, Citizen Scientist. 2024, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Franz Boas, the Arts, Education, and Science, Insights of Anthropology, 6, 1, (2023)
• Profiles in Sustainability: Daniel Bressette, President of Environmental and Energy Study Institute, Environment, 65, 3, (2023)
• Life in the Anthropocene, Environment, 65, 2 (2023)
• Proflles in Sustainability: Joseph Heathcott, Chair of Urban and Environmental Studies at 麻豆传媒色情片, Environment, 64, 5-6 (2022)
• Boas, Du Bois, Montagu and the Concept of Race, Academia Letters, June 2022
• Nuclear in Our Lives, Environment 64, 1 (2022)
• Nuclear Weapons and Sustainability: Can We Have Both? Environment, 63, 5 (2021)
• Teaching science and ethics to undergraduates: a multidisciplinary approach,听Science and Engineering Ethics, Volume 2, No. 19, June, 2013
• The Case for Nuclear Power: A Critical Tool for Slowing Climate Change,听Jewish Currents,听Summer 2013
• The Dilemma of the Atomic Bomb,听Jewish Currents, September 4, 2017
• Distorting the Integrity of Scientific Publication (with Tim O鈥橰iordan),听Environment, May-June 2018
• Life Adrift,听Environment,听Volume 60, No. 4, June-July, 2018

Research Interests

• Impact of race on health
• Biological conception of race
• Science and the environment
• Disruptive technologies
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Awards And Honors

• Top Science and Technical Expert by the International Association of Top Professionals
• Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who鈥檚 Who
• Teacher Recognition Award, American Association of Physics Teachers
• Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

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