Millennium Magazine_3rdEd

81 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine P assionate about teaching children with learning disabilities from a young age, Pamela Jacobsen first attended Baldwin Wallace College, where she received a BS in elementary education in 1969. After commencing her career as a teacher at Strongsville Schools in Ohio, she discovered that some of her students had learning disabilities, and she sought to provide them with the best education. After completing postgraduate coursework in learning disabilities at the University of Akron in Ohio, she received an MA from Adams State University in Colorado. Now retired, Ms. Jacobsen was most recently the Director of Special Education Services for the city school district, and upon retirement, the director of the Abraxas Treatment Center in Canon City. She served as an educator of socially-emotionally disordered students, a child study team specialist, and a counselor and consultant. Throughout her tenure, Ms. Jacobsen accrued several accolades, including a fellowship through IDEA, an Honorable Mention Award from the governor of Colorado, and a Service Award from the Colorado CHAMP Camp. DIRECTOR, COUNSELOR Puebelo City Schools Pueblo, CO PAMELA JACOBSEN D r. Bruce W. Hapke is an acclaimed planetary scientist and professor emeritus of geology and planetary science at the University of Pittsburgh. A professor for 34 years, he commenced his career as a senior research associate at Cornell University in 1960. Since a young age, Dr. Hapke has been interested in the study of the universe and planets and was driven by the question of whether life exists on other planets. During his career, he has contributed over 200 articles to scientific journals and authored many books. An expert in bidirectional reflectance spectroscopy, Dr. Hapke has been described as one of the pioneers of planetary remote sensing and has participated in the Mariner 10, Viking and Apollo missions. Distinguished for the Hapke mathematical theory, which describes the reflection of sunlight and radar waves and emission of heat waves from planetary surfaces, he is the past chair of the division for planetary sciences of the American Astronomical Society. As a testament to his success, Hapkeite, a lunar material, and asteroid 3549 Hapke were named in his honor. He also received the Kuiper Prize and a fellowship with the American Geophysical Union. PLANETARY SCIENTIST, EDUCATOR University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA BRUCE W. HAPKE, PHD EDUCATION