Diamondback terrapin hatchlings in the Terrapin Farm at Stockton
 

I have been teaching at Stockton since 1974.

I am involved in a conservation research project to save Diamondback Terrapins.

  In Spring 2004, I am teaching:

BIOL 3160 Developmental Biology

GIS Bioethics Seminar

   In Fall 2003, I taught:

BIOL 1100 Organisms & Evolution

BIOL 3190 Intermediate Cell Biology
 

   In Spring 2003, I taught:

GIS 3207 Contemporary Issues in Bioethics

BIOL 3141 Vertebrate Embryology

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My husband Charlie also teaches here at Stockton in the Math Department.
 
 

My current cv:

Current Position: Associate Professor of Developmental Biology
   Biology Program
   Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
   Pomona, NJ  08240-0195

Education:
   B.A., Biological Sciences, Stanford University,  1969
   M.S., Biological Sciences, Univ of California, Irvine, 1973
   Ph.D., Developmental and Cell Biology, Univ of California, Irvine, 1974

 Employment Experience

 9/82 - Present   Associate Professor of Developmental Biology
                          Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
 6/91-Present     Conservation Researcher
                          Wetlands Institute, Stone Harbor, NJ
9/90 - 1992       Coordinator of Biology Program
9/89 - 1/90        Visiting Researcher    [on sabbatical leave]
                          UMDNJ - School of Osteopathic Medicine
                          Camden, N.J.
                    Project:    Expression of collagenase and proteoglycanase genes in rheumatoid arthritis synovial cells
 4/86 -  4/88      Coordinator of Biology Program
 9/83 -  6/84      Visiting Associate Professor of Biology
                          Swarthmore College
9/74 -  9/82       Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology
                          Stockton State College
9/81 -  6/82       Visiting Researcher [on sabbatical leave]
                          Department of Biology
                          University of Pennsylvania
                     Project:  Studies on Mammalian Oogenesis: Metabolic Coupling  Between    Follicle Cells and Growing Mouse
                                 Oocytes
4/76 -  4/77     Coordinator of the Biology Program
l974                 Teaching Associate, School of Biological Sciences
                        University of California, Irvine
9/69 -  9/73      Teaching Assistant, School of Biological Sciences
                         University of California, Irvine
Summer l969     Laboratory Assistant in Orange County Public Health Labs, Santa Ana, CA
Summer l968     NASA Science Intern, Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA

Courses Taught at Stockton and at Swarthmore

   Science Courses - Vertebrate Embryology, Developmental Biology, Histology, Organismal Biology, Cell and Molecular Biology, Intermediate Cell Biology, Biology Lab Methods, Immunology, Biology Senior Seminar, Tutorials in Cell Movements, Cancer, Immunobiology Seminar, and a variety of topics in Developmental Biology.

   Liberal Studies Courses - Issues in Human Ecology, Diversity of Plant and Animals, Environmental Social Issues, The Working Woman, Science and Gender, and Contemporary Issues in Bioethics.

Honors
Graduated with Honors, Stanford University
USPHS Training Grant in Developmental & Reproductive Biology, l970-73
Research and Professional Development Grants, l979-80, l982, l985,
  1989, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1998
NSF Grants to Small College Faculty, Fall l981
 Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, 1992-1993
 Career Developmental Grant, 1997

College Service:
Natural Sciences and Mathematics Division Faculty Review Committee (l975-76, l984-5, l988-89,  1997-98)
Faculty Assembly General Studies Committee (l975-76, l982-83)
Minority Recruitment Committee (l974-75)
Divisional Budget Committee (l977-78)
Faculty Review Board (l978-79)
Pre-Medical Advisory Committee (l978, l982-83, l984-1991)
Library Committee (l979-81)
Committee for Protection of Human Subjects, Chairperson (l980-81),
   Member (l984-1991, 1998-present) [now called Institutional Review Board]
General Studies Dean Search Committee (l979-80)
Research and Professional Development Committee (Spring l982, l982-83, 1993-95)
GIS Convenor (l982-83)
Member, Challenge Grant Task Force (Summer l985)
Faculty Assembly Program Studies Committee (l988-1989)
Academic Policy Committee (1991-1993)
Committee on Graduate Education (1991-1992)
Faculty Assembly Standing Committee on Advising (1994-1998)
SFT Committee on Precetorial Advising Evaluation (Chair, 1997)
AT&T Women and Minorities in Science Advisory Committee (1993-1998)
Distinguished Faculty Fellowship Committee, Chair, (1996)

Special Courses Attended:

Cancer Biology: Cell Differentiation, August, l976 at Given Institute of Pathobiology, Aspen, Co.

Genetics and Society:  A Dynamic Interaction.  l977-78, University of Maryland.  An NSF/AAAS Chautauqua course

Ethical Issues in Death and Dying.  l979-80, University of Maryland, AN NSF/AAAS Chautauqua course

Molecular Genetics, October, l983, University of Pennsylvania

Faculty Computer Training Course, May-June, l984, Stockton

Advances in Cell Biology, March, l985, University of Pennsylvania

Immunobiology, April, l985, Parkland College, Champaign, IL. an NSF/AAAS Chautauqua course.

Hybridomas and Monoclonal Antibodies, April l986, Waxman Institute, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Women, Science, and Technology.  April l987, SUNY Stony Brook, an NSF/AAAS Chautauqua course.

 Advances in Immunology: March 1990, Temple University, an AAAS Chautauqua course.

 Health Care Costs: How Much? Who Pays? Who Shall Live? 1993 Temple University an AAAS Chautauqua course.

Non-teaching Professional Activities

Reviewer, NSF College Science Instrumentation Program Grants, l/87
Member, Institutional Medical Ethics Committee, Atlantic City Medical Center, 6/88-present
Member, Institutional Review Board, Atlantic City Medical Center, 7/87-present
Reviewer, NFS Grant Proposals in Biology, 1988

College-Community Service:
l977 and l979 Organizer, Women in Science conferences held at Stockton State College (I was primary organizer for the l979 conference)
Member, Family Life Advisory Committee, Galloway Township Public Schools, 1987-95
Treasurer, Galloway Concerned Citizens for Better Schools, 1984-1990
Stockton Connection--work with community high school teachers
 Delivered a paper entitled "Scientific Change and The Weakening of
 Individual Beliefs and Values" for Stockton Connection Symposium on
 Civic Values and Responsibilities at Stockton, March 1986.
Science Fair Judge, at annual middle and high school science fair held at Richard Stockton College
speaker Participant at several Future Unlimited Conferences held at Stockton and Cumberland County College (these conferences encourage girls to consider careers in the sciences)
Co-organizer, The Bioethics Conference, Who Lives, Who Dies: Who Decides?  held at Stockton in April l988 in conjunction with New Jersey Citizens' Committee for Biomedical Ethics.  We had over 80 participants in the audience, including local health professionals, local residents and Stockton students and faculty.
Conservation of diamondback terrapins.  Worked on and appeared in NJ Network documentary, "Terrapin" in 1992.  Regularly meet with community-student groups to talk about terrapins and release hatchlings.

Professional Organizations
Society of Developmental Biology
Society of Integrated and Comparative Biology
Association of Women in Science
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Associate Member, Hastings Institute of Ethics, Society and the Life Sciences
NJ Academy of Sciences

PUBLICATIONS
Abstracts
Herlands, R.L. (l972).  Studies of Nematocyte Movement in Hydra attenuata.  Amer Zool 12: 704.

Herlands, R.L., S. Schnakenberg, and R.C. Wood (1993).  Life After Death: Conservation of Northern diamondback terrapins in New Jersey.  49th Annual Northeast Fish & Wildlife Conference, 135.

Edwards, Eric D., Paul W. Stoecker, and Rosalind L. Herlands. (1996) Comparison of Calcium in the Shells of Viable and Non-Viable Malaclemys terrapin eggs.  American Chemical Society 30th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting.

Herlands, Rosalind, Roger Wood, Jennifer Pritchard, Heather Clapp, and Norman Lefurge. (1999).  Diamondback Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) Head-Starting Project in Southern New Jersey for Conservation and Ecology of Turtles of the Mid-Atlantic Region Conference, 12.

Herlands, Rosalind, Roger Wood, Jennifer Ciraola. and Nichole Strickler. (2000).  Diamondback Terrapin Conservation Project in Southern New Jersey: recovery and incubation of eggs from roadkills and head-starting of hatchlings for Second Terrapin Workshop, Wetlands Institute, Stone Harbor, NJ.

Articles
Herlands, R.L. and H.R. Bode (l974).  Nematocyte migration in Hydra is influenced by Tissue Polarity.  Nature 248:  387-390.

Herlands, R.L. and H.R. Bode (l974).  The influence of tissue polarity on nematocyte migration in Hydra attenuata.  Devel Biol 40:  332-339.

Herlands, R.L. and H.R. Bode (l975).  Oriented migrations of interstitial cells and   nematocytes in Hydra attenuata.  Wilhelm Roux Archiv 126:  67-88.

Herlands, R.L. (l981).  Biological Manipulations for Producing and Nurturing Mammalian Embryos.  Proceedings EIRTAW Conference, June l979.  Amherst, MA. in Custom-Made Child:  Humana Press, Clifton, NJ 231-240.

Herlands, R.L. and R.M. Schultz (l984).  Regulation of mouse oocyte growth:  probable nutritional role for intercellular communication between follicle cells and oocytes in oocyte growth.  J Exp Zool 239: 317-325.

Herlands, R.L. (1994). Pathways for Women in the Sciences. The Wellesley Report Part 1. Council on Undergraduate Research 15: 22-24.

 Wood, Roger and Rosalind L. Herlands. (1996)  Terrapins, Tires, and Traps:  Conservation of the Northern Diamondback Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin terrapin) on the Cape May Peninsula, New Jersey, USA. p 254-256. in Devaux, B. (ed) Proceedings of the International Congress of Chelonian Conservation, held at Gonfaron, France, July 1995.

Wood, Roger C. and Rosalind L. Herlands. (1997).  Turtles and Tires: The Impact of Roadkills on Northern Diamondback Terrapins, Malaclemys terrapin terrapin, Populations on the Cape May Peninsula, Southern New Jersey, USA.  Proceedings:  Conservation, Restoration and Management—an International Conference, p 46-53.  The New York Turtle and Tortoise Society.

Herlands, Rosalind, Roger Wood, Jennifer Pritchard, Norman Lefurge and John Rokita. (2000). Diamondback Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) Head-Starting Project in Southern New Jersey in Proceedings of Ecology and Conservation of Turtles of the Mid-Atlantic Region, ed. by Chris Swarth, Erik Kiviat, and Willem Roosenburg.  (in press).