Cynthia Bauerle

{{short description|American molecular biologist and college administrator}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Cynthia Bauerle

| alma_mater = University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin-Madison

| fields = Molecular biology

| workplaces = Hamline University

Spelman College

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

James Madison University

| citizenship = United States

}}

Cynthia M. Bauerle is an American molecular biologist and college administrator. They are currently the interim vice provost for Faculty and Curriculum at James Madison University.{{Cite web|last=|title=Dr. Cynthia Bauerle: Vice Provost|url=https://www.jmu.edu/academic-affairs/staff-profiles/bauerle-cynthia.shtml|url-status=live|access-date=2021-10-08|website=www.jmu.edu|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031052203/https://www.jmu.edu/academic-affairs/staff-profiles/bauerle-cynthia.shtml |archive-date=2020-10-31 }}

Early life and education

Bauerle is from Charlottesville, Virginia.{{Cite web|url=http://www.jmu.edu/news/2016/09/15-new-csm-dean.shtml|title=New dean settles in|last=Gorton|first=Eric|date=2016-09-15|website=JMU|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-07-08}} They completed a B.A. in biology at University of Virginia in 1984 and a Ph.D. in molecular biology at University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1990.{{Cite web|title=Cynthia Bauerle, Ph.D.|url=https://www.jmu.edu/biology/people/current-people/faculty/faculty-bauerle.shtml|access-date=2021-10-08|website=www.jmu.edu|language=en}} Bauerle was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Oregon where they researched molecular biology.{{Cite web|url=https://languageandstemwomen.wordpress.com/2017/11/28/interview-with-dr-cynthia-bauerle/|title=Interview with Dr. Cynthia Bauerle|last=rasmusem|date=2017-11-28|website=The Consequences of Language|language=en|access-date=2019-07-08}} They were a Fulbright scholar at University of Dar es Salaam from 1999 to 2000.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xVSbAwAAQBAJ|title=Language, Literacy, and Learning in STEM Education: Research Methods and Perspectives from Applied Linguistics|last1=Curry|first1=Mary Jane|last2=Hanauer|first2=David I.|date=2014-06-15|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company|isbn=9789027270115|language=en}}

Career

Bauerle, a molecular biologist, was a professor of biology and women's studies at Hamline University for 12 years before joining Spelman College where they were a professor and department chair of biology. Bauerle moved to Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) for seven years as a senior program officer and later, the assistant director of Precollege and Undergraduate Science Education. They were also the assistant director in undergraduate and graduate science education at HHMI. They managed the science education portfolio of grants, fellowships, and special initiatives. Bauerle oversaw multi-institutional initiatives to improve science education and student persistence in STEM and coordinated the NEXUS project. On July 1, 2016, Bauerle became a professor of biology and dean of the James Madison University College of Science and Mathematics, succeeding David Brakke.

Their research background is in cellular and molecular biology, with an early focus on the transport of thylakoid proteins{{Cite journal|last1=Bauerle|first1=C.|last2=Dorl|first2=J.|last3=Keegstra|first3=K.|date=1991|title=Kinetic analysis of the transport of thylakoid lumenal proteins in experiments using intact chloroplasts|journal=The Journal of Biological Chemistry|volume=266|issue=9|pages=5884–5890|doi=10.1016/S0021-9258(19)67680-5 |issn=0021-9258|pmid=2005124|doi-access=free }} and translocation of plastocyanin precursors{{Cite journal|last1=Bauerle|first1=C.|last2=Keegstra|first2=K.|date=1991|title=Full-length plastocyanin precursor is translocated across isolated thylakoid membranes|journal=The Journal of Biological Chemistry|volume=266|issue=9|pages=5876–5883|doi=10.1016/S0021-9258(19)67679-9 |issn=0021-9258|pmid=2005123|doi-access=free }} in chloroplasts. Some of their subsequent research focused on ATPase and genetics in yeast.{{Cite journal|last1=Bauerle|first1=C.|last2=Ho|first2=M. N.|last3=Lindorfer|first3=M. A.|last4=Stevens|first4=T. H.|date=1993|title=The Saccharomyces cerevisiae VMA6 gene encodes the 36-kDa subunit of the vacuolar H(+)-ATPase membrane sector|journal=The Journal of Biological Chemistry|volume=268|issue=17|pages=12749–12757|doi=10.1016/S0021-9258(18)31452-2 |issn=0021-9258|pmid=8509410|doi-access=free }}{{Cite journal|last1=Bauerle|first1=C.|last2=Magembe|first2=C.|last3=Briskin|first3=D. P.|date=1998|title=Characterization of a red beet protein homologous to the essential 36-kilodalton subunit of the yeast V-type ATPase|journal=Plant Physiology|volume=117|issue=3|pages=859–867|pmc=34940 | doi=10.1104/pp.117.3.859|issn=0032-0889|pmid=9742042}}

Awards and recognition

Bauerle is a HERS Leadership Institute alumni from 2013 and was elected as an AAAS Fellow in 2016. They were a 2018 Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE) ambassador and a 2019 AAAS Council Delegate for the Section on Education.

Personal life

Bauerle identifies as gender-queer. They are a parent and are in a multi-racial and same-sex relationship.{{Cite web|url=https://www.500queerscientists.com/fullscreen-page/comp-jgwk54xq/77bec798-706a-4acd-b406-6f7f68991125/122|title=Fullscreen Page {{!}} 500 Queer Scientists {{!}} Stories|website=500 Queer Scientists|language=en|access-date=2019-07-08|archive-date=2019-07-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708191131/https://www.500queerscientists.com/fullscreen-page/comp-jgwk54xq/77bec798-706a-4acd-b406-6f7f68991125/122|url-status=dead}}