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03/14/2024 ACCEPTED "Plants buffer some of the effects of a pair of cadmium-exposed zebrafish on the un-exposed majority" Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology 01/12/2024 CONGRATULATIONS MD Imran Noor for winning 1st place and Jessica Okutsu for 3rd place posters at the BioGrad symposium 12/15/2023 TOP CITED paper in Zebrafish Shelton et al., 2020. 12/14/2023 CONGRATULATIONS Makeda Walker, Jalen Gordon, and Jackson Mariner on graduating. 06/05/2023 FUNDED Global Black Studies fellowship to support Makeda Walker's research on strain differences in zebrafish vision. |
Teaching Statement.Teaching is the paramount learning process, and students are my greatest teachers. Students are the center of learning, and often the teachers. I use a variety of instructional methods to create student-centered learning environments including flipped classrooms and project-driven courses. As an educator, I understand the need to develop well-rounded ethically minded global citizens and provide support to individuals embarking on new chapters of life. Thus, I incorporate research ethics, and diversity training in my curriculum and instruction.
Teaching Experience2023 Animal Behavior, BIL-441 R, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
2022 Animal Behavior, BIL-441 R, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA 2020 Guest Lecture, Animal Behavior, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, USA 2018 Guest lecture, EEB 450 Comparative Animal Behavior, University of Tennessee - Knoxville, USA 2013 Guest lecture, BIOL-Z 460 Animal Behavior, Indiana University - Bloomington, USA 2011 Lecturer, Indiana University-Bloomington BioEthics: Center for Integrative Study of Behavior, USA 2009-2010 Science Teacher at Title 1 High School in Houston Independent School District, Science Department: Integrated Physics and Chemistry, Houston, TX, USA WorkshopsCharles H. Turner Award pre-meeting workshop. 55th Animal Behavior Society Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. August 2-8, 2018.
Charles H. Turner Award pre-meeting workshop. 54th Animal Behavior Society Conference, University of Toronto - Scarborough, Toronto, CA. June 12-17, 2017. Social Networks are powerful for answering behavioral ecology questions. Behavioral ecology workshop at the Oregon Hatchery Research Center, Alsea, OR, USA. March 9, 2017. Martins lab ethoinformatics. Integrated Behavior Ontology for the Behavioral Science Community in Two Workshops. Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., USA. Organizers: Anne Clark, Susan Margulis, Peter Midford, and Cynthia Parr. August 7 - 8, 2014. |