Elena is developing a new course! 🎉 Offering for the first time in SP25 as a Special Topics course: BIOL 4930 - Living Systems and Complex Questions. Looking forward to using systems thinking to explore complex socio-scientific issues in the classroom.

Postdoc Amanda Sebesta's work on study strategies in the intro bio classroom is now published! We will miss Amanda as she moves on, but we're so glad to celebrate her accomplishment 🎉

• Sebesta, A. J., & Bray Speth, E. (2023). Breaking the mold: Study strategies of students who improve their achievement on introductory biology exams. PLoS ONE, 18(7), e0287313.

Undergraduate Fatema Rehmani did a great job presenting a poster at the SLU Biology UG research symposium. We missed her brilliant co-author Dani Doncevic, who was traveling with the SLU track-and-field team, making all of us proud.

Welcome to our new graduate student, Anushka Jayasinghe!

Congratulations to Konnor Brennan on defending his dissertation! 🎉🎉🎉

Check out our latest collaborative paper on Systems and Systems Thinking in biology education: https://www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/cbe.21-05-0118 

April 22 - Undergraduates Sophia Izhar and Alex Rollins did a great job presenting their posters at the SLU Biology UG research symposium.