Associate Director
Center for Mathematics and Science Education, Teaching and Technology
John Carroll University
20700 North Park Blvd.
University Heights, OH 44118

http://www.jcu.edu/cmsett
Email: pkeiper@jcu.edu
Phone: 216-397-4598
Fax: 216-397-4544

Science Topics of Interest:
• Earth/space science
• Evolution
• Ecology and environmental science

Educational Topics of Interest:
• Connecting science and mathematics education using data analysis
• Science curriculum study

Educational Licensure: 7-12 certificate Earth/Space Science - Pennsylvania

Courses Taught:
• Variety of earth/space and life science courses to grades 7-adult - including, botany, ecology, geology, meteorology/oceanography, microbiology, ornithology, and environmental science
• Supplementary curriculum: GEMS, Project WILD, Project Learning Tree, Wonders of Wetlands and Project Food, Land and People

Education:
• MA – Ecology
• BS – Secondary Education – Earth/Space Science

Employment:
• Cleveland Museum of Natural History
• University of California – Riverside
• Kent State University
• Center Area School District

Current work-related activities:
• Cleveland Regional Council of Science Teachers – president 2007-2008
• Cleveland Regional Association of Biologists
• National Science Teachers Association

Grants and awards:
• Grants ranging from $1200 to over $50,000 from Giant Eagle Corporation, Kirtlandia Society, Greater Cleveland Audubon Society, Hershey Family Foundation, Reinberger Foundation, Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, and Discovery Center
• $105,000 from Ohio Board of Regents Improving Teacher Quality program for "Seeds of Science, Roots of Reading: Integrating Science and Literacy"

Publications:
• Keiper, P. B. and F.A. de Szalay. 2004. Simulated effects of nutrient enrichment by Canada geese on macrophytes and algae in Ohio lakes. Kirtlandia 54:33-41.
• Krieger, R. I., P. Brutsche-Keiper, H. R. Crosby, and A. D. Krieger. 2003. Reduction of pesticide residues of fruit using water only or Plus Fit TM fruit and vegetable wash. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 70:213-218.
• Keiper, J. B., P. L. Brutsche, and B. A. Foote. 1998. Acalyptrate Diptera Associated with Water Willow, Justicia americana (Acanthacea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 100: 576-587.

Expedition and overseas experience:
• 1989 – Student teaching at Munich American High School in Munich, Germany
• 1992 – Field Ecology class in Edinburgh, Scotland
• 1997 - Lepidoptera collecting expedition to Kenya
• 2006 – Cleveland Museum of Natural History led trip to Kenya
• 1983, 1993 and 2008 – Vacations in Europe
• 2008 – Personal trip planned to the Peoples Republic of China