Celeste Carter

Affiliation

National Science Foundation

Biography

V. Celeste Carter, Ph.D., Program Director, Division of Undergraduate Education, National Science Foundation (NSF). Received her Ph.D. in Microbiology from the Pennsylvania State School of Medicine in 1982 under the direction of Dr. Satvir S. Tevethia. She completed postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Dr. G. Steven Martin at the UC at Berkeley. She joined the Division of Biological and Health Sciences at Foothill College in 1994 to develop and head a Biotechnology Program. She served as a Program Director twice in the Division of Undergraduate Education as a rotator. Dr. Carter accepted a permanent program director position in 2009; she is the Lead Program Director for the Advanced Technological Education.