Congratulations to several SEPAL people making local and national press!
CCB FEST Principal Investigators Jeff Schinski and Kimberly Tanner were featured in the recently published Nature article, “A sense of community: US scientists passionate about teaching can find rewarding work at community colleges.” Read the article here!
SEPAL Alum, Tatiane Russo-Tait, and SEPAL Master’s Student, Kathryn Danielson, are highlighted in the SFSU Spring Publication of “BioNews.” Read the article here!
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Undergraduate Zoology major AND SEPAL SPIKE Alum Michelle Davila (Zink Lab) received a Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s (HHMI) Exceptional Research Opportunities Program Fellowship to conduct research in the lab of an HHMI professor.

Congratulations Michelle!
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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!
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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
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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”
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Graduate student Kathryn Danielson (SEPAL) won best poster at the Third International Symposium on the Ocean in a High CO2 World in Monterey, CA for her poster entitled “Investigating advanced undergraduate science students’ conceptions & misconceptions of ocean acidification”.

Graduate student Rachel Dorfman (Stillman Lab) received an honorable mention for her poster entitled “Transcriptome response of Emiliania huxleyi to high temperature and CO2″. Congratulations Kathryn and Rachel!
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Read the press release here!
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