Background and Context

Instructors

Elizabeth M. (Betsy) Gunn
Associate Professor
George Mason University
egunn@gmu.edu

Thomas C. (Tom) Wood
Assistant Professor
George Mason University
twood@gmu.edu

We are both members of the NCC faculty and co-teach the NCC course on the Natural History of the Chesapeake Bay. Dr. Thomas C. Wood also teaches in the first-year learning community on The Natural World, and frequently teaches field biology at Andros Island, Bahamas. He is a conservation biologist who has studied reproductive physiology at the Smithsonian. Dr. Elizabeth M. Gunn also teaches in the first-year learning community on Self as Citizen. Before joining NCC, she was a senior policy analyst for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and for the U.S. Congress' Office of Technology Assessment, and on the faculty at the University of Oklahoma.