Roger is currently the Ira Allen Eastman Professor at Dartmouth and has been a professor there for the past 40 years (a fact he is finding more and more amazing of late). Prior to arriving at Dartmouth, he did his graduate work at Rensselaer and conducted postdoctoral research at Yale. His research, funded over the years by NIH and NSF,  studies Chlamydomonas, a green algal cell with two whip-like appendages called flagella. He is interested in how these cells disassemble before, and reassemble after, the flagella during each cell division cycle. Having always been interested throughout his career in science education, he has served or serves on the Board of Directors of the Children’s School of Science in Woods Hole, MA and on the Board of Trustees of the Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich VT. In ’05-06, he was named an Education Fellow in the Life Sciences by the National Academies. In the arena of pre-college science education and STEM retention, he has been the PI on two science education awards from HHMI, by whiche he developed with many skilled collaborators an innovative teaching program aimed at retaining undergraduates in the sciences and a program called Science Camp designed to enhance the science education of students in the elementary grades. He continues his research on the assembly and disassembly of Chlamydomonas flagella, often reflecting on the following fact: the flagella of this organism are identical in shape and composition to human flagella and cilia, yet humans are separated from Chlamydomonas by over two billion years of evolution. This fact leaves him almost (but not completely) speechless every time he thinks about it.