teaching
I view my task as an educator to nurture students’ sense of wonder about the natural world. I help students integrate what can be an overwhelming amount of biological information to distill general principles. Biology students have a wide range of interests and goals, and as an interdisciplinary biologist I aim to build students’ confidence and integrative thinking skills to prepare them to tackle multidisciplinary challenges beyond the classroom. I use evidence-based active learning approaches to deepen students’ understanding by applying fundamental concepts in real scientific contexts.
Courses taught:
CE55: Foundational Biology for Engineers (Stanford University, Fall 2022, Instructor)
Bio105L: General Biology Lab (University of San Francisco, Fall 2018, Instructor)
CB245: Cell Biology (Univ. California San Francisco , Fall 2018, TA)
Bio126: Energy Flow in Biological Systems (Carleton College, Winter and Spring 2013, TA)
Bio280L: Biochemistry Lab (Carleton College , Fall 2012, TA)
outreach
Visual communication: As part of a team from UCSF, we created a stop motion video to explain the cytoskeleton to a broad audience in collaboration with Science Sketches that was included in HHMI’s Explorer’s Guide to Biology.
K-12 outreach: East Bay Mini Maker Faire Volunteer 2013, AAAS Family Science Day Volunteer 2015, Bay Area Science Festival Volunteer 2013-6, San Francisco K-12 STEM Career Day Tour Leader 2016, 2019, Science Education Partnership Volunteer with San Francisco public schools 2016-2018, Drew School San Francisco guest science teacher 2017, 2018
If you’re a K-12 educator who would like a classroom visit with a hands-on science component or a lab tour, please reach out!
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