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Bibliography
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(2011)
The Highest Frontier
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(2000)
Brain Plague
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(1998)
The Children Star
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(1993)
Daughter of Elysium
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(1986)
A Door Into Ocean
Personal edit
- Legal name: Joan Slonczewski
- Birthdate: 1956 (age 56)
- Birthplace: Hyde Park, New York, USA
- Nationality: American
- Gender: Female
- Official Website: http://http://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/
- Genres: feminist science fiction
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Slonczewski earned an A.B. in biology, magna cum laude, from Bryn Mawr College in 1977. She completed a Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1982 and post-doctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania studying calcium flux in leukocyte chemotaxis. Since 1984 she has taught at Kenyon College, taking sabbatical leaves at Princeton University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Slonczewski's research focuses on the pH (environmental) stress response in Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis using genetic techniques.
Slonczewski teaches both biology and science fiction courses. From 1996 through 2008, she has been awarded Howard Hughes Medical Institute funding for undergraduate biological sciences education, which she uses to improve science instruction and to foster summer science fellowships for minority and first-generation students.
Slonczewski is also a member of the Quakers and Quakerism is featured in many of her novels
Slonczewski teaches both biology and science fiction courses. From 1996 through 2008, she has been awarded Howard Hughes Medical Institute funding for undergraduate biological sciences education, which she uses to improve science instruction and to foster summer science fellowships for minority and first-generation students.
Slonczewski is also a member of the Quakers and Quakerism is featured in many of her novels
