About: Terry R. McGuire

Terry Russell McGuire was professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Genetics at Rutgers University. His research has been in the fields of Mendelian, behavioral, and ecological genetics. He has also been involved in science education through the (NCSCE), of which he has been a senior fellow since 2008. He has also been a senior associate and core faculty member of Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER), the NCSCE's primary initiative, since 2004. In 2007, Rutgers appointed him a Presidential Fellow. He has taught at Rutgers since 1979. As of 2012, he lived in Clinton, New Jersey with his wife, Jeannette Haviland-Jones, a Rutgers psychology professor. He retired from teaching at Rutgers at the end of the spring 2014 semester.