We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

- Carl Sagan -

TEACHING

I have always felt strongly that teaching, the dissemination of scientific knowledge and the translation of new scientific findings is a crucial responsibility of mine as a scientist. I am currently teaching General Biology I and Invertebrate Zoology at Piedmont College along with General Biology II Labs

BIOL1101 General Biology I

This class begins with a broad philosophical inquiry of science and what biology is, followed by a ground-up description of living systems. We begin at the atomic level and slowly build up through the increasing complexity of a living organism.

The course finishes with an overview of current trends in the biological sciences including genomics and the various applications of biological technology.

BIOL4200 Invertebrate Zoology

Invertabrate biodiversity is an upper level course that covers the breadth of invertebrate diversity and biology, and places that diversity within an evolutionary and comparative biology context.

An optional "Live Collection" project allows students to "collect" organisms by properly identifying them and presenting them in lab. Having the students be actively involved in discovering diversity in each new habitat they visit is always really fun and helps the students really integrate the knowledge and stories they learn in the classroom and lab with actual organisms we encounter.