I am the Director of Outreach and Strategic Engagement with the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium. I have over 25 years of experience teaching introductory biology, ecology, and evolution courses. I'm also on the leadership team of the QUBES project and I spend a lot of my time thinking about how to bring new teaching and learning resources into classrooms.

I received my Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2012 for my work on the disruption of native plant-mycorrhizal mutualisms during allelopathic plant invasion. After completing a research postdoc in 2014, I joined the QUBES team in 2015. As a QUBES postdoc, I facilitated several faculty mentoring networks, mentored a team of undergraduates, taught a variety of classes at the University of Pittsburgh, and played a role in planning assessment work to evaluate the outcomes of QUBES faculty development work. In 2017, I accepted a position as Project Manager of Science and Research at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, where I assisted with the day-to-day management of projects and grants across 10 museum departments.

After an extended maternity leave, my passion for education brought me back to QUBES where I am currently filling in for the Director of Community Engagement, Elia Crisucci (on maternity leave).

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I am the Executive Director of TIDES at UT Austin.  I earned my Bachelors at the University of California San Diego, in Biochemistry and Cell Biology. A high point of my undergraduate career was studying abroad at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia for a year. I earned my PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Arizona, where I worked on RNA metabolism. After a short stint in industry at a start up biotech company, I moved into education. I have been fortunate to have a variety of experiences including teaching high school, as well as at a small college, an R1 and a community college. I ran a McNair Program at Concord College in West Virginia, and worked for BCSC before taking a position at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). From NESCent, I moved to a position in future faculty development at the University of Wisconsin.  In  2015I became the Executive Director of BioQUEST where I led the transition to a non-profit organization and played a key role in the development of QUBES.  

My goal in science education is promoting success for all students and I use the Universal Design for Learning framework to support this outcome.  I am particularly interested in teaching evolution, nature of science and quantitative reasoning skills.  Projects I have been involved in to achieve these goals include Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges (https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/qbcc), which brings together a community of mathematics and biology faculty at two year institutions to develop Open Education Resources for teaching quantitative skills in a biology context, the BioQUEST UDL Initiative, which  is focusing on bringing Universal Design for Learning practices to higher education, and EVOKE, an EU coalition focused on improving evolution education for everyone. 

I am a mathematician in the Department of Biology at the College of William and Mary.  One of my roles in the department is to strengthen the quantitative skills of biology majors.  I am also the site manager for QUBES, so if you have any questions, feel free to send me a message!

I am the media and writing research assistant for Carrie Eaton on the communications of QUBES. I am a senior, double majoring for a bachelors degree in Environmental Writing & Media Studies, as well as Wildlife Biology at Unity College.

Universal Design for Learning Consultant at BioQUEST.

I have worked on both the QUBES and BioQUEST projects out of Pittsburgh, PA since 2016. In these roles I work to support initiatives around Open Educational Resources and the design and implementation of professional development that focuses on Universal Design for Learning.

Email: hco1 "at" pitt "dot" edu

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Jeremy is an aquatic community ecologist at Radford University in Virginia. He is currently investigating predator functional diversity and better models to understand how multiple predator species affect prey populations. He teaches a variety of courses including Ecology and Adaptation, Parasitology, Tropical Field Biology, and Scientific Illustration.  Jeremy is a PI for the QUBES project, as well as the AIMS project that uses image analysis to engage students in mathematics and statistics, and the BIOMAAP project that hopes to reduce student's math anxiety through evidence-based interventions.  He is also a PI on an HHMI-funded Inclusive Excellence project (REALISE) that is reforming instruction and curriculum in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics at Radford University, with the aim of improving outcomes for all students.