Stephen Glassman, Founder of SSBTR in 2001. Born in Brooklyn, New York and lived most of life in Massachusetts. BS in Business Administration from University of Massachusetts 1967. BS in Education, History University of Massachusetts 1997. Moved to Scottsdale 1998 and taught 15 years in Paradise Valley Unified School District. Student Government advisor at Pinnacle High School where SSBTR was started. He is an advisor in the College of Education at Grand Canyon University for the past 10 years. He is married to Deborah Bans Glassman and they have 5 children and six grandchildren.

I am trained in Neurobiology (behavior, physiology). My doctoral dissertation studied neuroanatomical substrates of drug (Methamphetamine) reward (Hippocampus). My postdoctoral training examined cellular mechanisms underlying (pre)synaptic inhibition on central synapse dynamics. Understanding how neurons encode and compute information is fundamental to the study of the brain, but opportunities for hands-on experiences with such techniques on live neurons are rare in science education. For the past decade, I have used my formal training to explore low-cost and hands-on approaches (using invertebrates) in neuroscience to explore behavioral and physiological questions (learning and memory, locomotor activity, drug-seeking, drug reward) with undergraduates. Broadening access in Neuroscience to historical underserved populations via low cost approaches has been the vision of my past and current interests.

(On the Right) Wendy Kaye, President of SSBTR since 2004. She has been in private pediatric practice for the past 35 years. She has also taught pediatric residents at Phoenix children’s Hospital and medical students at U of AZ, Phoenix.