Terry R. McGuire

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Terry R. McGuire
Born
Terry Russell McGuire
NationalityAmerican
Education Ohio State University
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Known for Science education
SpouseJeannette Haviland-Jones
Scientific career
Fields Behavioral genetics
Institutions Rutgers University
Thesis Behavior-Genetic Analysis of Phormia Regina: Conditioning, Central Excitatory State, and Selection  (1978)
Doctoral advisor Jerry Hirsch

Terry Russell McGuire was professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Genetics at Rutgers University. [1] His research has been in the fields of Mendelian, behavioral, and ecological genetics. He has also been involved in science education through the National Center for Science & Civic Engagement (NCSCE), of which he has been a senior fellow since 2008. He has also been a senior associate and core faculty member of Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER), the NCSCE's primary initiative, since 2004. In 2007, Rutgers appointed him a Presidential Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Fellow. [2] He has taught at Rutgers since 1979. As of 2012, he lived in Clinton, New Jersey with his wife, Jeannette Haviland-Jones, a Rutgers psychology professor. [3] He retired from teaching at Rutgers at the end of the spring 2014 semester. [4]

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References

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