Congratulations on winning the SFSU level of the CSU Student Research Competition in the Area of Education and being chosen to compete at the CSU level for your biology research efforts investigating the experiences of Black students in the SFSU Biology department!!
SPIKE Alum Jake Campupos at the Noyce Regional Conference with a long time collaborator Dr. Seth Bush at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo!
Students in Professor of Biology KimberlyTanner’s Science Partners in K-12 Education class, an SF State Science Education Partnership and Assessment Laboratory (SEPAL) course, got into the spirit of giving last week. They wrote letters to middle-schoolers in Burkina Faso and filled backpacks with school supplies. The project was part of a partnership with a former SEPAL student who started his own nonprofit to help needy students in Africa.
Congratulations to Donovan Ruiz and Justine Ramos, two SFSU students, have been chosen for the 2017 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Exceptional Research Opportunities Program.
Congratulations to our SEPAL Graduate, Melissa Richard, for presenting her thesis defense on
Intuitive Reasoning and Evolution Knowledge in Explanations of Antibiotic Resistance.
Left to Right: Trisha de Vera, Chris Moffat, John Coley, Kimberly Tanner, Sarah Bissonnette,
Melissa Richard, Analisa Brown,Kristin De Nesnera, Derik Gonzalez, Tiffy Nguyen, and John Rodriguez
Congratulations to our SEPAL Graduate, Tiffy Nguyen, for presenting her thesis defense on:
Investing Instructor Talk in Community College Biology Classrooms
Pictured here: Tiffy Nguyen
SEPAL graduate student, Analisa Brown, was awarded a University Scholarship and a 100 Black Men Scholarship. Congratulations Analisa!
SFSU Biology and SEPAL alumnus, Brianna McCoy, is now a Lead Zoo Ambassador Coordinator at the Oregon Zoo. She will be managing volunteers for a program called Zoo Quest aimed at showing how food waste harms wildlife and what every day actions one can take to limit one’s own food waste.
Brianna completed her MS with a concentration in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology (EECB).
Alycia Maria Escobedo, Kristen Liang, and Katie Lam presented their research poster titled “Examining Differences in Non-Content Instructor Talk Across Varying Instructor Demographics” at the 2016 COSE Student Project Showcase at SFSU. They won 2nd place in the category for Undergraduate Life Sciences. Congratulations to you all!
©2026 SEPAL is made possible through funds from the National Institutes of Health Science Education Partnership Award (NCRRSEPAR25RR024307-01), National Science Foundation GK-12 Grant (DGE0337949), PFSMETE Start-Up Grant (DGE-0136879), SFSU Center for Math and Science Education, SFSU Institute for Civic and Community Engagement and through in-kind support from the SFSU Department of Biology and College of Science and Engineering.
