Richard DeLoughery

Science Teacher focusing mainly on Biology and AP Biology

• I have been teaching at North Buncombe High School since 2004 and previously taught on the island of Guam for 3.5 years.

• I grew up and attended public school in Wallingford, Connecticut

• I graduated from the Southampton Campus of Long Island University with a Bachelor of Science in Marine Science with a concentration in Biology

  • As part of my studies I travelled to Fiji, Tonga, and the Cook Islands to study Tropical Marine Biology

  • I recieved an internship and worked for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Balboa, Panama for 6 months working on the relationships of Cichlid fish using mitochondrial DNA.

• I attended the University of Guam for graduate school and while I was there I acquired my teaching certification

  • Graduate research on the compounds produced by a sponge species

• National Board Certification 2009, Renewed 2019

  • Science-Adolescence and Young Adulthood/Biology

• I usually teach all levels of Biology: Standard, Honors, and AP

• I use Google Classroom in all of my classes