I recall sitting in a biology classroom as a sophomore student at the University of South Carolina when I decided that I wanted the professor's job. Enamored by the processes she explained and the organisms she described, I embarked on a late journey into the biological sciences that developed into a quest to find the most effective means to help students find the excitement native to biology. This quest is reflected in what I now do professionally at Clemson University.
As coordinator of non-majors general biology laboratories, I've developed and implemented a variety of process-oriented, investigative laboratories designed specifically for those students that will comprise a large portion of our society's "scientific consumers." I experiment with pedagogical approaches that make learning biological science personal, local, and relevant to the student. Laboratories and instructional methods I have developed have been presented nationally at ABLE, NABT, NSTA, and NAERC
