Brad HughesDirector of Science Education and Media Senate Faculty LSOE, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Affiliated Faculty, Education Director, Center for Learning in the Arts, Sciences and Sustainability Co-Director Cal Teach Program Director UCI Summer Evolution Institute Director UCI Cal Teach Noyce Summer Interns and Scholarships Program Director MS Biological Sciences and Educational Media Design Director of Strategic Media Productions |
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Research Interests |
Science Education, Experimental Evolution, Sustainable Energy, Educational Media Production, Marine Science, Ecological Modeling, Scientific Visual Arts | |
| URL | M.S. in Biological Sciences and Educational Media Design | |
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Research Abstract |
Brad Hughes Received his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences in 2007, having also completed a B.S. in Biological Sciences, B.A. in Social Sciences, California Teaching Credentials, and graduate studies of educational media production and educational psychology. Dr. Hughes is the School of Biological Sciences Director of Science Education and Media, and Director of Strategic Media Productions, dealing with both internal and external communications across and array of media types. Dr. Hughes is a tenured Senate Faculty with Security of Employment in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He is also an Affiliated Faculty member of the UCI Department of Education, where he trains science teachers. Within the School of Biological Sciences he is directing the new M.S. in Biological Sciences and Educational Media Design Program, along with the new B.S. in Biology/Education, while developing and teaching courses in Scientific Educational Media, Methods of Experimental Evolution, Video Cinematography Production and PostProduction Techniques, Multimedia, Marine Science & Coastal Ecology, Research Methods, and Complex Pedagogical Design. He also teaches Laboratory Physiology, Secondary Science Methods, and Elementary Science Methods. His biological research involves the methods of microbial experimental evolution applied to issues in coastal ecology, sustainability, energy, environmental public health, evolution theory and science education. His interdisciplinary work involves such projects as enhancing scientific visualization to improve learning in video production, scientific educational media design, training teachers through partnerships with informal science centers, educational ecotourism and connecting university scientific research to K-12 students through innovative outreach. |
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| Publications | Albert F. Bennett and Bradley S Hughes. 2009. Microbial Experimental Evolution. Am J Physiol Regulatory Integrative Comp Physiol 297:17-25 | |
| Hughes B.S. 2008. Evolutionary patterns of Escherichia coli growth in seawater determined with a Host To Coast Environmental Laboratory Analog. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 53:243-255 | ||
| Hughes B.S., A.J. Cullum, and A.F. Bennett. 2007. Evolutionary adaptation to environmental pH in experimental lineages of Escherichia coli. Evolution 61:1725-1734 | ||
| Hughes B.S., A.J. Cullum, and A.F. Bennett. 2007. An experimental evolutionary study on adaptation to temporally fluctuating pH in Escherichia coli. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 80:406-421 | ||
| Hughes B.S. 2007. Spiraling evolutionary patterns in cycling environments: The experimental evolution of superior ecological generalists. Dissertation | ||
| Grants | NSF Grant #0748903, Experimental Evolutionary Studies of Temperature (2008-2012) Adaptation: Researcher and Educational Institute Coordinator, $900,000 | |
| NMSI UTeach Grant #42818, National Math and Science Initiative (2008-2013) Replication of UTeach: Co-Director $2,400,000 | ||
| NSF Grant #0723288, Flow sensing in the Lateral Line System of Zebrafish (2007-2010) Larvae: Co-PI, $186,829 | ||
| NSF GK-12 Grant #063875, Innovating Graduate and K-12 Education in (2007-2012) Biological Sciences: Lecturer, Summer Institute Instructor, $2,200,000 | ||
| NSF Grant 0934928, UCI Cal Teach Noyce Summer Intern & Scholarships (2009-2014): PI & Director $900,000 | ||
| NSF Grant 1031783, Collaborative Research: Evolutionary Ecology of Marine Cyanophages (2010-2013): Co-PI $813,207 | ||
| ITQ Grant ITQ-10-710, Improving Teacher Quality (2010-2014): PI & Media Director $1,000,000 | ||
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Professional Societies |
National Association for Research in Science Teaching American Educational Researchers Association Association of American Geographers The Society for the Study of Evolution |
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| Research Centers | Center for Learning in the Arts, Sciences, and Sustainability | |
| Media Arts in Science Symposia (MASS) | ||
| Science Education Media Lab | ||
| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5587 | |
| Last updated | 05/06/2013 | |