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Dr. Eric J. Jolly is President and CEO of Minnesota Philanthropy Partners, and immediate past president of the Science Museum of Minnesota. From 1995 to 2004, he served as Senior Scientist and Vice President at the Education Development Center, a nonprofit research and design organization in Newton, Massachusetts. Dr. Jolly was Assistant to the Chancellor and Director for Affirmative Action and Diversity Programs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1992 to 1995, Assistant Dean of University College at the University of Rhode Island from 1989 to 1992, and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana State University from 1987 to 1989. He served on the Board of Directors of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the Association of Science-Technology Centers, and on the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of the American Indian and the Senior Advisory Board of the University of Arizona Science Center. Dr. Jolly received a B.A. from the University of Rhode Island, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma. (Term expires December 6, 2016)