We count as some of our strongest advocates the KU Biodiversity Institute Board of Advisors. These volunteers bring their wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and interests to bear on the activities and initiatives of the Biodiversity Institute and the KU Natural History Museum.
The board’s mission is to improve the quality, abundance and scope of the Biodiversity Institute’s services to university, local and regional communities, and to state, national and international audiences. In so doing, the board joins the institute in discovering, documenting and disseminating knowledge of life on earth, past and present.
2010 members of the Biodiversity Institute Board of Advisors are:
Rod Borlase
Houston, Texas
Retired
John Burch
Lawrence, Kansas
Investor/stock advisor
Jack Horner
Santa Fe, New Mexico
V.P. for Business Development at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Joan Hunt
Prairie Village, Kansas
University Distinguished Professor, KU School of Medicine
Colette Kocour
Wellington, Kansas
Training and safety coordinator, Futures Unlimited
David Lambertson
Winchester, Kansas
Director, KU-Ft. Leavenworth Program
John McGrew
Lawrence, Kansas
Retired real estate agent and business owner (McGrew Real Estate)
Janet Martin McKinney, chair
Kerrville, Texas
Retired Topeka businesswoman (Martin Tractor Co.)
Bill Penny
Lawrence, Kansas
President, Penny Concrete Inc.
Jann Rudkin
Los Gatos, California
Self-employed information designer
Tom Rudkin
Los Gatos, California
Self-employed software consultant
Carol Shankel
Lawrence, Kansas
Retired; author of Lawrence and university history books
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