Staff Biographies    

 Charlotte V. Kuh is the Deputy Executive Director of the Policy and Global Affairs Division in the National Research Council. In this capacity she oversees the Committee on Women in Science and Engineering and the Board on Higher Education and Workforce, and serves as the staff officer for the Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs. Dr. Kuh also oversees the Fellowships programs that select over three hundred post-doctoral fellows annually for positions in national laboratories, as well as those programs that select recipients of pre- and post-doctoral fellowships sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Vietnam Educational Foundation. Before coming to the Academies Dr. Kuh was director of the Graduate Record Examinations at the Educational Testing Service, where she initiated the first computerization of a national admissions test and a program of research designed to introduce measurement of a broader range of student talents for use in graduate admissions. She has also been a manager at AT&T and has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and at Stanford University. She has served on a number of National Research Council study committees and on advisory committees for the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the National Science Foundation, and the New York University School of Law. She currently serves a Member of the Board of the American Council of Learned Societies and was its Treasurer for six years. Dr. Kuh received a B.A., magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard University and a Ph.D., also in economics, from Yale University. She is a Fellow of the Association for Women in Science.

 Peter H. Henderson is Director of the National Research Council’s Board on Higher Education and Workforce (BHEW). His areas of specialization include postsecondary education, the labor market for scientists and engineers, and federal science and technology research funding. He currently directs BHEW's study on Enhancing the Master’s Degree in the Natural Sciences and COSEPUP’s study on Underrepresented Groups and the Expansion of the Science and Engineering Workforce Pipeline. He is also working on BHEW's Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs. He has previously contributed as study director or staff to a variety of education and workforce studies including Building a Workforce for the Information Economy, Policy Implications of International Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in the United States, Assessment of NIH Minority Research Training Programs, Evaluation of the Markey Scholars Program, and Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers. He has also contributed to studies of the research enterprise, including: Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future, Measuring the Science and Engineering Enterprise, Trends in Federal Support of Research and Graduate Education, and Observations on the President's Federal Science and Technology Budget. Dr. Henderson holds a Master in Public Policy (1984) from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a Ph.D. in American Political History from The Johns Hopkins University (1994). He joined the National Academies staff in 1996 and is the recipient of the National Academies' Distinguished Service Award (2003).

Jim Voytuk, Senior Program Officer, provides technical support and analysis for projects dealing with the demographics of the science and engineering workforce, career transitions and labor market issues for scientists and engineers, and graduate education and postdoctoral training. His current projects involve the development of the 2005 Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs, the Study of National Needs for Biomedical, Behavioral, and Clinical Personnel, and the Evaluation of the Resident Research Associateship Programs. Dr. Voytuk received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Carnegie Institute of Technology. 

Michelle O. Crosby-Nagy, Research Associate, provides research support for the Board on Higher Education and Workforce. Ms. Crosby-Nagy is a former Mirzayan Policy Fellow (Spring 2009).  She received her BA in International Studies with emphasis in international economic policy and is currently a M.A. candidate at the George Washington University in International Science and Technology Policy with concentration in applied economics. 
   
Sabrina E. Hall, Program Associate, provides logistical support for the Board on Higher Education and the Deputy Executive Director of Policy and Global Affairs.  Before coming to the Academies, Ms. Hall was an office manager for the humanitarian organization CARE.  She received her BA in Theater at Morgan State University (2002) and is currently obtaining a M.S.A. in Non-Profit Management at Trinity University.