Michael Anthony

Background

DiSpezio grew up in Brooklyn.

Career

In addition to hosting over three dozen broadcasts of National Geographic"s JASON Project, DiSpezio is co-author of several dozen science textbooks that are used in the K-12 classroom. He has also authored several dozen tradebooks on various topics in science that range from critical thinking puzzles to Human Immunodeficiency Virus awareness. After graduating from Brooklyn College, he continued graduate research at Boston University and received a master"s degree in biology.

During his graduate years, he worked as a research assistant to Nobel Laureate, Albert Szent-Györgyi.

After teaching at Boston University, Boston University School of Nursing and several independent day schools in New England, he went on to author his first textbook in chemistry. To date, he has coauthorship on over thirty textbooks and classroom ancillaries for publishers that include Addison-Wesley, Pearson Education, National Geographic Society and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

In 1994, he worked in the Middle East as part of the Israel/Jordan peace accord where he trained Arab counterparts in the application of educational television production to issues in gender equality and critical thinking. He lives in Cape Cod and continues to write and speak on science, creativity, and applying brain research to increase classroom effectiveness.

Works

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  • The Science, Spread, and Therapy of HIV Disease: Everything You Need to Know, But Had No Idea Who to Ask (Science Fundamentals)

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