For Faith Brynie, traveling to the Galapagos Islands to tread in the footsteps of Darwin was a dream come true. "My husband and I have traveled to many countries," she says, "and our travels are always enriched by our love of science."
Brynie, who specializes in writing about science and health, is the author of 25 books currently in circulation. They include science activity books for children, science fair project books for children and their parents, and her popular 101 Questions series. Her latest book, Brain Sense, was released by Amacom in 2009.
She holds a Ph.D. in science education (curriculum and instruction) from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She worked for many years as a writer and project director for the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) in Boulder, where she wrote and developed textbooks, films, slide packages, educational magazines, and other types of learning materials.
Brynie (formerly Faith Hickman) also served as Director of the BSCS Center for Education in Human and Medical Genetics. In that capacity, she directed projects supported by more than $1 million in grants from public and private sources.
While a professor of science education at the University of Colorado, she became
a co-founder of the Colorado Alliance for Science, a consortium of schools, businesses,
industries, and community groups dedicated to the improvement of science education
in Colorado.
At the invitation of the Department of Defense Dependents' Schools (American
schools abroad), Brynie served as "Scientist in Residence" in the U. K. For two
years, she worked in elementary and middle schools in England and Scotland, assisting
with the improvement of the science program--mostly through direct classroom interaction
with children and their teachers.
She remained in England when the "Scientist in Residence" program ended and
continued to teach in the American schools until 1991, when she left teaching to
write full time.
Brynie now lives and writes in Montana. She and her husband, science teacher Lloyd
Brynie, have visited more than 30 countries in South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe.
They have brought back treasured memories from them all.
