A Perfect Storm

Journal Article | March 2022

This point of view article uses a social science lens in an attempt to understand the differing environments of the two institutions (private and public) where I taught chemistry for 3 decades. I hypothesize that…

How Can DNA Help Exonerate Those Wrongly Convicted?

Journal Article | July 2022

Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences Spanning Two Semesters of Biology Impact Student Self-Efficacy but not Future Goals

Journal Article | February 2021

Course-based undergraduate research is promoted as an equitable strategy for providing the benefits of research experiences to a larger, more diverse population of students pursuing science degrees. Here, we report the…

Surveying Sounds of the Season

Journal Article | April 2023

Where Does Your Sidewalk End?

Journal Article | October 2021

Cancer and Formaldehyde

Journal Article | April 2023

Influence of Environmental Factors on the Success of At-Risk Hispanic Students in First-Semester General Chemistry

Journal Article | March 2022

This article looks at the effects of environmental factors such as classification, residence location, and employment status of Hispanic students who unsuccessfully completed first-semester general chemistry (Chem I) at…

How I Inadvertently Misled Some Students

Journal Article | July 2023

Clear key results and simple figures have clear advantages when teaching. However, these same properties can mislead some students. I provide examples from my presentation on the body mass index, Centers for Disease…

The Lives of Staph

Journal Article | November 2020

Ectotherm ER: Frogs Under the Weather

Journal Article | February 2021

Science Assessments as a Learning Opportunity

Journal Article | March 2023

Feedback best practices support timely, high-quality feedback with application opportunity. Multiple attempts on assessments support learning gains. A learning management system can be used to automatically provide…

Designing Wildlife Crossings

Journal Article | July 2023

Using Publicly Available Long-Term Climate Records in Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Big Data Curriculum

Journal Article | October 2021

Understanding data analysis and interpreting data are key components of teaching interdisciplinary undergraduate students. We detail a semester-long research project that introduces students to long-term data sets,…

Online Digital Science Resources

Journal Article | June 2020

Improving Retention and Graduation of Female Engineering and Polytechnic Students With First-Year Interventions

Journal Article | May 2023

Prior research in student retention emphasizes that building students’ connections with the institution and their peers is key. Students from underrepresented populations often lack these connections, making them more…