Since 2004, Muriel Lederman has been associate professor emerita at Virginia Tech. A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 1977, Lederman has served as a teacher and adviser to numerous undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students during her career. She focused her research on parvoviruses and on the social and gender studies of science and teaching. Lederman served as the coordinator of the Biological Sciences Initiative and as a faculty affiliate in the Women's Studies Program.

Ms. Lederman, among others, received the Finalist for Diggs Teaching Scholar Award (2001) and the Advancing Women Award, Women's Center (2003) from Virginia Tech. She is the author of numerous publications in the field of social and gender studies of science and pedagogy, as well as in virology. On May 9, 2006. Prof. Lederman held a presentation on Teaching Science with the Social Studies of Science for Equity at the Office of Science and Technology's EU Presidency Meeting on "Innovative Approaches To Science Education."

Muriel Lederman holds a Ph.D. in biological sciences and an M.A. in zoology from Columbia University.

• Science as a Social Acitvity (June 29, 2006)