Eugenie C. Scott, Ph.D.

NCSE Advisory Council

**Eugenie Scott**, a former university professor, served as the executive director of NCSE from 1987 to 2014; she now serves as the chair of NCSE's Advisory Council. Scott has been both a researcher and an activist in the creationism/evolution controversy for over twenty-five years, and speaks to its educational, legal, scientific, religious, and social issues. She has received national recognition for her NCSE activities, including awards from scientific societies, educational societies, skeptics groups, and humanist groups. She holds nine honorary degrees, from McGill, Rutgers, Mt. Holyoke, the University of New Mexico, Ohio State, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Colorado College, the University of Missouri-Columbia, and Chapman University. Scott is the author of \_Evolution vs Creationism\_ and co-editor, with Glenn Branch, of \_Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design Is Wrong for Our Schools.\_