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Dr. Handler served as the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the California Academy of Sciences from 1994 to 1997. Prior to joining the California Academy of Sciences, Dr. Handler served as a Research Fellow and as an Associate of the Graduate School of Education at Harvard, and as a Senior Fellow at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She served as President of Brandeis University from 1983 to 1992, and as President of the University of New Hampshire from 1980 to 1983. Previously, she was Dean of Sciences and Mathematics and professor of biological sciences at Hunter College. Dr. Handler also acted as the President of Merrimack Consultants LLC, Bow, New Hampshire from 1999 through 2004 and has since retired. A graduate of Hunter College, Dr. Handler earned her M.Sc. and her Ph.D. degrees from New York University and her J.D. from Pierce Law. She has written extensively on myelogenous leukemia research. Dr. Handler is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. Additionally, she was elected to the Board of Governors of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1979. She holds honorary degrees from the University of Pittsburgh, Rivier College and Hunter College. Dr. Handler has been a director of the Corporation since April 1993. Her current term as director expires at the Annual Meeting, and she is a nominee for election for a term that expires at the annual meeting in 2009.
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