Rachelle S. Heller

Women's Leadership in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Ph.D., 1985, University of Maryland

M.S., 1972, University of Maryland

B.S., 1964, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Dr. Heller is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Mount Vernon Campus of the University and is the director of the Elizabeth Somers Center concerned with issues of women�s leadership. She is the co-editor of Computers & Education: An International Journal. Dr. Heller is PI and co-PI of a number of NSF grants related to bringing and keeping women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Dr. Heller�s current grant is FORWARD to Professorship (www.seas.gwu.edu/~forward/advance).

Selected Publications

1. R.S. Heller and C.D. Martin, Bit's N'Bytes About Computing , Computer Science Press, Potomac, Maryland, 1982.



2. R.S. Heller, Evaluating Interactive Multimedia , In Thomson Multimedia Resource. Edited by K. Shields. Thomson Technology Services Group (Wadsworth Imprint), 1996.



3. Heller, R.S., Martin, C.D., Haneef, N., and Gievska-Krlui, S, Using a Theoretical Multimedia Taxonomy Framework , ACM Journal of Educational Resources in Computing, Vol. 1, No. 1, Article # 6, 22 pages, Spring 2001.



4. R.S. Heller, R. Dhamija, L. Hoffman, Teaching E-Commerce to a Multidisciplinary Class , Communications of the ACM, Vol. 42 (9), pp 50-55, September, 1999.



5. R.S. Heller, K. Brade and C. Branz, The representation of women and minorities in print media , GATES, Vol. 1(2), pp 1-8, 1994.



6. C.D. Martin and R.S. Heller, Attracting Young Minority Women to Engineering and Science: Necessary Characteristics for Exemplary Programs , IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 37(1), February, 1994.