Elsa Salazar Cade

Elsa Salazar Cade is an award-winning Mexican American science teacher and entomologist.

Elsa received her undergraduate degree in elementary education at the University of Texas at Austin and her master's in public school administration at Niagara University, and is certified for New York State as a school district administrator.

A long time amateur entomologist, with her husband, William H. Cade, she discovered the first case of a parasite using the sexual signal of a host in order to locate and parasitize the host. She also was selected as one of the top ten science teachers in 1995 by the National Science Teachers Association. [http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol26/vol26n16/25.txt]

The Cades have done over thirty years of research on the Texas field cricket, "Gryllus texensis". [Male mating success, calling and searching behavior at high and low density in the field cricket, Gryllus integer William H. Cade & Elsa Salazar Cade, Animal Behavior, 1992, 43, 49-56]

This research has covered the behavior of the field cricket at different densities and under parasitic pressure from the red eyed fly Ormia. She has also been very involved in the development of hands-on instructional program for middle school teachers through support from the National Science Foundation at the University at Buffalo. Elsa Cade also sits on the board of Science Alberta, a not for profit foundation committed to science education and awareness.

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* [http://www.telusplanet.net/public/ecade Elsa Salazar Cade's home page]
* [http://www.sbac.edu/~werned/DATA/RESEARCH/journals/Excep%20Children/inclusion.pdf Including Students With Disabilities Into the General Education Science Classroom]
* [http://www.telusplanet.net/public/ecade/hispanic-women.html Hispanic, Latina, Chicana women in Science]
* [http://telusplanet.net/public/ecade/CricketsintheClassroom/cricketsintheclassroom.html Crickets in the Classroom]