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!
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!
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
Read the article here!
His dissertation is titled: “Echoes from the field: An ethnographic investigation of outdoor science field trips”
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!
Jainee Lewis, Spectrum science partner and SFSU Biology graduate student receives SFSU Community Service Learning Award for her work as a pioneering leader and mentor in SEPAL’s NIH-funded Spectrum Program designed to encourage girls and women of color to seek careers in biomedical science. Congratulations Jainee!
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