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**Course titles = links to the syllabus PDF. Happy to chat more about any class, assignment, etc!**

Smith College

BIO 132 - Molecules, Cells, and Systems
As part of my Mellon fellowship, I've had the pleasure of co-teaching with several instructors during my time at Smith, including an intro bio course with Dr. Michael Barresi. For our remote Fall 2020 semester, we developed a semester-long team project where students applied their developing knowledge about biology to communicate the latest science on COVID-19 for general audiences. We were blown away with what the students came up with, and their worked proved so exciting that the college wrote a short story about the project.
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FYS 192 - Language of Love: Courtship Communication Across the Animal Kingdom
In addition to other writing assignments, students also create a podcast on a topic or research article related to animal communication. Check out our podcast site below! (image = link)
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NSC 314 - Neuroendocrinology
Photos from class, including our lesson with co-instructor Prof. Annaliese Beery on how ELISAs work by experimenting with pregnancy and ovulation dipstick tests.
BIO 380 - Science in the Public Eye
Photos from class, including our ideation session with Deborah Day (STEAM Outreach Coordinator) and Laura Lilienkamp (Design Thinking) for out Flipped Science Fair project. Thanks to Deborah for the photos!
  • A bit of press about our Flipped Science Fair project via Smith College's "Grécourt Gate": 
Pictures from some of our amazing guest speakers for BIO 380, including Amy Ellis Nutt '77.

University of Massachusetts Amherst

PSY 392 - Junior Year Writing in Psychology
NATSCI 191 - Swipe Right: Flirting Across the Animal Kingdom
Photos from our in-class cockroach neuron recordings (+ stimulations). 
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