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  roverath@delmar.edu
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  Del Mar College

  
  
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• Interests

  1. Ecological Society of America
  2. Ecology and Evolution
  3. General biology education
  4. genetics

  
  
• Biography

  R. Deborah Overath, PhD, rejoined the Department of Natural Sciences at Del Mar College, a Hispanic-Serving community college in Corpus Christi, TX in January 2023 as Biology faculty. From 2017-2022 she served as Biology faculty at Texas Southmost College a community college in Brownsville, TX, where she also served as a department chair of the department in January 2018. The 2008 SACNAS Distinguished Undergraduate Mentor Awardee, Dr. Overath has held faculty positions at both 2-year colleges and 4-year universities since earning a PhD in genetics at The University of Georgia. Through a previous position at Del Mar College, she became involved in the HHMI SEA-PHAGES and Tiny Earth course-based research programs. Dr. Overath is interested in implementing course-based undergraduate research and developing critical and quantitative thinking and problem solving skills, as well as other recommendations of Vision and Change to encourage students, especially those from groups underrepresented in science, to persist in STEM majors and careers.

  
  
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