Biography

I am the lab coordinator at Temple University (Philadelphia, PA) for Cell
Structure in the Fall terms and Genetics in the Spring terms, which are
undergraduate courses with enrollments of over 300 students. I serve as a liaison
between the professors and the students and ensure that all of the approximately
20 lab sections are roughly equivalent, which involves overseeing the instructors
of the lab sections. I also teach one lab section myself each term. Since 2006, I
have made both courses writing-intensive (which involved altering the lab report
format and providing detailed instructions for writing lab reports), replaced or
modified several old experiments in both courses (this is an ongoing process),
started using Turnitin/SafeAssign, and put the Genetics manual into electronic
form. In Spring 2014, in order to maintain writing-intensive status, I reorganized
the way writing is taught in the labs, so that the students revise a lab report and
the instructors provide more verbal instruction during the lab periods; both Cell
Structure and Genetics have been approved as writing-intensive until 2019.
I have also served as the lecturer for all (Spring 2013) or part (first half of Spring
2015) of Genetics (as well as the lab coordinator). This course covers the basics
of classical and molecular genetics, and is required for all Biology majors.