Richard Vineyard President Council of State Science Supervisors rvineyard@doe.nv.gov

Dr. Richard Vineyard is currently Assistant Director of the Office of Assessment, Program Accountability, and Curriculum, and K-12 Science Consultant at the Nevada Department of Education. He received in B.S. in Environmental Science from Washington State University and was then a Fisheries Biologist in Juneau, Alaska. His interest and curiosity about the insects the fish were eating led to a M.S. in Biology from Central Washington University, and then a Ph.D. in Zoology (systematic entomology) from the University of Toronto. His special area of interest is caddisflies. After graduate school, Dr. Vineyard worked at the Buffalo Museum of Science in Buffalo, New York for a year and then seven years as Director of the Center for Science & Mathematics Education at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. He moved to Nevada in 1998, and has been at the Nevada Department of Education for the past 7 years.

In his position at the Nevada Department of Education, in addition to looking after K-12 science, he helps manage the state assessment program for reading, writing, math, and science. He directs the Nevada Math/Science Partnership program, and the science portion of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching. Outside his regular work, he teaches a course in science education teaching methods for early childhood education, and is co-director of the Nevada Educators Really Doing Science (NERDS) program: a field based inservice education program for K-12 teachers in the state.

Outside of work, Dr. Vineyard enjoys hiking, reading, cooking, working in his yard, and admitting to being hopelessly addicted to golf.