Given the diversity of student experiences, identities, and academic backgrounds, how can we cultivate classrooms that are both welcoming and rigorous? My teaching philosophy is built on five core principles: setting high expectations with structured support, fostering a culture of belonging, ensuring accessibility through flexibility, investing in the teaching team, and committing to continual informed improvement.
Undergraduate students in the biological sciences are often preparing for careers in areas where racial inequalities loom large, like public health, the medical professions, and education. And yet, as educators in higher education, we are often reluctant to talk about race, deeming it irrelevant or possibly even inappropriate for courses in the biological sciences. I argue that biology educators have the expertise and an obligation to help students understand why biological races with fixed differences have not evolved in humans.
Join us for our Spring 2025 grad student seminar series!
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By: Erik Johansson (Abrahms Lab)
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By: Madeleine Strait (Brosi Lab)
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By: Kindall Murie (Carrington Lab)
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By: Ben Sheppard (Steinbrenner Lab)
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By: Erik Black (Rasmussen Lab)
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By: Vaibhav Chhaya (Santana Lab)
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Molecular CLUE: A Plant Murder Mystery
By: Ben Downing (Nemhauser Lab)
Paleocene forest expansions preceded dryland vegetation in southern South America: 40 million years of phytolith records
By: Elena Stiles (Strömberg Lab)
Investigating Vestibular Anatomy and Behavior in the Octopus
By: Amanda Rokicky (Wang Lab)
Join us for our Winter 2025 grad student seminar series!
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Insight Into the Taxonomic Diversity of Campanian Mammals from North Central Montana
By: Isiah Newbins (Wilson Lab)
Molecular Pet or Parasite? Conditions Favoring Different Plasmid Lifestyles
By: Elizabeth Duan (Kerr Lab)
Charged biosensor Galvanin steers migratory cells from the rear
By: Amy Platenkamp (Theriot Lab)
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Simply the best; how armor morphologies reduce drag in poachers (Agonidae)
By: Meg Vandenberg (Summers Lab)
Increased stocking density ameliorates oyster heat stress by slowing thermal diffusion
By: Grace Leuchtenberger (Carrington Lab)
Join us for our Winter 2025 grad student seminar series!
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Effects of locomotion strata on squirrel countershading
By: Edú Guerra (Santana Lab)
Undertaking behaviors in the common eastern bumblebee Bombus impatiens
By: Stephanie Zhu (Wang Lab)
Constraints on thermoregulation explain disruptive selection on body size after an historic heatwave.
By: Jack Litle (Carrington Lab)
Join us for our Autumn 2024 grad student seminar series!
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Flowering genes in eelgrass and their potential functions
By: Christine Nolan (Imaizumi Lab)
Visualizing inequities: A step toward equitable student outcomes
By: Rachel Potter (Brosi Lab)
Agent-based modeling of Drosophila Neurogenesis
By: Sophia Jannetty (Bagheri Lab)
Join us for our Autumn 2024 grad student seminar series!
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Reconstructing the Origin of Reproductive Function for the Flower Development Gene LEAFY
By: Hannah McConnell (Di Stilio Lab)
Birds under the microscope
By: Yasmeen Erritouni (Leaché/Rico-Guevara Lab)
Investigating the influence of fruit-dwelling microbes on mosquito attraction
By: Melissa Leon Norena (Riffell Lab)
