Gail OKane
Gail O’Kane is the education-industry partnership manager for emerging technologies for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. In this role, she coordinates system-wide initiatives related to bioscience and to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Gail also works closely with a number of business organizations. She serves on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota, an industry group. She coordinates the Alliance’s statewide Biosciences Education-Industry Partnership Council, which includes members from K-12 education, higher education, industry, workforce development and supporting organizations. She also is active in the Minnesota High Tech Association, and serves as a member of its foundation board. Gail holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where her research involved using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study normal, healthy aging. Prior to pursuing neuroscience, she was a magazine and newspaper journalist in Massachusetts.
