Associate Director, Undergraduate Studies

Editor, Kaleidoscope, The UK Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship

Principal Investigator, AMSTEMM Program (grant # NSF-0431552)

Coordinator, Beckman Scholars Program

Director, eUreKa!, Experiences in Undergraduate Research and Kreative Activities

114 Bowman Hall
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0059

(859) 257 - 5644 (voice)
(859) 257 - 8734 (fax)

rst@uky.edu

Brief Biography:

    Prof. Robert S. Tannenbaum was Director of Academic Computing Services at the University of Kentucky from 1991 to 2001. For the years 1999 - 2001, he served as a special advisor on academic computing issues and planning for the Chancellor of the Lexington Campus. On July 1, 2001, he became Director of Special Projects and Initiatives and Associate Director of Undergraduate Education in the Office of Undergraduate Education. He is also on the faculties of the Colleges of Engineering and Education. Dr. Tannenbaum has been using and teaching others to use computers at several universities for many years. He has taught in the UK Discovery Seminar Program for more than ten years, including courses on Multimedia, Civil Liberties, and Methods of Scholarly Inquiry.

    Dr. Tannenbaum is the editor of Kaleidoscope, the University of Kentucky Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship. To find out more about the journal and to see the current and previous issues, visit www.uky.edu/kaleidoscope. He also administers the Beckman Scholars program at UK. For information on this program, visit www.uky.edu/beckman. Dr. Tannenbaum is the Principal Investigator for the AMSTEMM progam (Appalachian and Minority Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Majors), funded by grant # NSF-0431552 from the National Science Foundation.

    He is the author of two textbooks and a large number of articles on the applications of computers in the humanities, social sciences, medical sciences, education, and multimedia. Early in his career, Dr. Tannenbaum was voted the "outstanding young science educator" by the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science, and he has received excellent teaching evaluations from his students at UK and other universities.

    Prof. Tannenbaum has been active in the field of Civil Liberties for many years. He served on the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn, NY, chapter of the ACLU when that chapter was the first in the country to call for the impeachment of President Nixon. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the ACLU of Kentucky and a member of the advisory committee for the ACLU of KY Reproductive Freedom Project. The background on this page, one of the original copies of the United States Constitution, was selected because of his deep concern for civil liberties.