Archive for December, 2012

Congratulations to SEPAL Alum Briana McCarthy

We would like to congratulate SEPAL alum, Briana McCarthy, on her new position at the California Academy of Sciences, where she is the Teacher Educator and Instructional Coach with the Teacher Institute on Science and Sustainability.  Briana received her MS in Ecology and Systematic Biology through SEPAL in 2009.

Congratulations Briana!

New SEPAL Science Education Research Publication

Please check out the recent SEPAL Publication:

Brownell, S.E. and Tanner, K.D., Barriers to Faculty Pedagogical Change: Lack of Training, Time, Incentives, and … Tensions with Professional Identity?. CBE: Journal of Life Sciences Education, 11: 339-346, 2012. pdf

SEPAL People Updates!

Congratulations to our SEPAL Alumni!

SEPAL Alum, Briana McCarthy, recently made local news.

Read the article here!

SEPAL Alum, Jon Boxerman, will be defending his Ph.D. Dissertation at Northwestern University.

His dissertation is titled: “Echoes from the field: An ethnographic investigation of outdoor science field trips”