Terry R. McGuire
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Terry R. McGuire | |
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| Born | Terry Russell McGuire |
| Education | Ohio State University University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| Known for | Science education |
| Spouse | Jeannette 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]
