Daniel
Bisaccio ’76 is the high school science
teacher all parents hope will be their children’s inspiration. He’s
also the high school science teacher who all college faculty honor,
as they greet new students with sophisticated research skills and
impassioned curiosity.
Dan Bisaccio learned at St. Lawrence, where
he earned a BS in geology,
and through a career of innovation, that science is best learned through
hands-on experience and he has taught biological field
research courses to high school students for over 25 years. With
astounding energy and initiative, he has earned grant funding to develop field tropical ecology courses
in Costa Rica, Belize, Jamaica and Mexico,
and taken over 500 students to the tropics with him. He has permanent
biological diversity monitoring projects in New Hampshire, Mexico,
Tahiti, and Jamaica, in which he involves student researchers.
His efforts have won state and national awards for
creativity and effectiveness, as has his teaching. Eight years ago,
Dan was accepted into the Smithsonian Institution’s Monitoring & Assessment
Biodiversity Project. He and his students conduct primary biological
diversity monitoring research and submit annual field reports to the
Smithsonian Institution. And last year, with typical imagination, he
initiated a new Conservation Biology Institute at Souhegan High School.
Dan is a 2005 recipient of the Alumni Citation as recommended by the Alumni
Executive Council.
