Barbara Crain, Northern Virginia Community College

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She went on to</div> <div> attain a secondary school teaching degree with the State of Bavaria in 1982 </div> <div> (M.Ed) in both disciplines. In 1998 she finished her M.S. in Environmental Science</div> <div>  with Johns Hopkins University. As her latest interest lies within the realm of </div> <div> geography/ecology, she has been taking course work in biology.</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Barbara Crain </B></I>taught primarily geography, geology and also German for the</div> <div> University of Maryland University College (UMUC) Europe for eight years. </div> <div> Once in the United States she became an administrator for UMUC working </div> <div> on faculty recruitment for both its Asia and Europe divisions. In addition she</div> <div> taught geography and environmental science courses at Johns Hopkins University</div> <div> as well as other institutions. In 1998 she developed a 6-credit multi-disciplinary</div> <div> online course on Global Environmental Change which started an online teaching </div> <div> career. Since 2006 she has been an Assistant Professor with Northern Virginia </div> <div> Community College teaching geography and geology courses in the classroom</div> <div> and online.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>