NCSE is pleased to announce that Brad Hoge has joined the NCSE staff as Director of Teacher Support. After a stint teaching middle and high school science, Hoge earned his Ph.D. in ecology and environmental biology at Rice University, with a dissertation on the responses of wetlands to sea level rise. He comes to NCSE from the University of Houston — Downtown, where he held a joint appointment in science education and natural sciences, and also served as the director of HUNSTEM, the Houston Urban Network for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. At NCSE, he will be coordinating and expanding NCSE's efforts to ensure that science teachers are able to teach socially controversial topics accurately, honestly, and confidently.