Teaching

Students have a wonderful energy that can be drawn upon in the classroom.  I have enjoyed teaching both graduate and undergraduate students in both lab and lecture settings while working on my PhD at the University of Georgia (UGA).  Outside of the classroom I have worked on a number of teaching projects such as designing an inquiry organismal biology lab manual.  I have also recruited and mentored numerous undergraduates in research.  For a description of my teaching philosophy and activities please see my teaching portfolio.

 
  

Figure 1: Two sophmore biology majors in an honors biology lab which I am teaching.  Here they are working on an experiment they designed to test for differneces in transpiration rate between magnolia leaves with intact cuticles and cuticles which had been reduced by abrasion.  This class is "beta testing" a laboratory I designed for the new introductory organismal biology lab manual (BIOL 1108L, UGA).