Advisory Board

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Mount Vernon Campus of the George Washington University and Professor, Department of Computer Science, The George Washington University, Washington DC

Shelly Heller has over 30 years of experience in the computer field, including work in industry and teaching at the college level. She is the co-editor of Computers & Education: An International Journal and coauthored a nationally syndicated newspaper column, "All About Computers" from 1982 to 1986 and serves as an educational computer consultant to the National Geographic Society and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the United States Military Academy..

Dr. Heller was an invited speaker at many national and international conferences. Her topics include the Design of a Graduate Program in Interactive Multimedia within a Computer Science Curriculum, - Multimedia; What's in it for {Engineering} Education, and FORWARD to Professorship and Using a Multimedia Taxonomy Framework. Dr. Heller was the keynote speaker at the Women's Empowerment Workshop: For Women by Women in Tripoli, Libya in September 2005.

Dr. Heller is the co-principal investigator of many National Science Foundation grants. The first, "Bringing Young Minority Women to the Threshold of Science," is designed to raise the interest of young women to studies in science and engineering. The second, "TEAMSS, Teacher Enhanced Application for Middle School Science with Hypermedia," is designed to enable teachers to use and re-use videodisc technology in their classrooms. FORWARD in SEM is a focus on reaching women for academics, research and development in Science, Engineering and Mathematics. It is an implementation project for the recruitment and retention of women in advanced science, engineering and mathematics careers in conjunction with Gallaudet University. Curriculum Resources in Interactive Multimedia (CRIM) is a project in conjunction with Professor Ed Fox at Virginia University. The current grant is Forward to Professorship with a focus on supporting women to advance to leadership positions in science, mathematics and engineering.