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Pinzone, Cheryl Ann

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  • Building self-efficacy into biology education, educating students to persist through challenges and strengthening academic resilience while maintaining wellbeing socioemotionally. Students conduct authentic research in Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) to discover novel drug compounds, and in the context of global public health crises learn essential biology of model systems, genetics, screening for new therapeutics, statistical data analysis, scientific communication and ethics.

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  • Genetics, Molecular Biology, Education

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  • EBIO 1210 - General Biology 1
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Fall 2018
    Lect. Provides a concentrated introduction to molecular, cellular, genetic, and evolutionary biology. Emphasizes fundamental principles, concepts, facts, and questions. Intended for science majors.
  • EBIO 2040 - Principles of Ecology
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018
    Lecture and laboratory. Introduces principles of ecology, emphasizing patterns and processes at various levels of biological organization. Scope global, but examples often from local environment. Laboratory emphasizes techniques of field biology. Uses animals and/or animal tissues. Recommended prerequisites: EBIO 1030 and EBIO 1040 and EBIO 1050 or EBIO 1210 and EBIO 1220 and EBIO 1230 and EBIO 1240 (minimum grade C-). Same as EBIO 2640 and ENVS 2000.
  • EBIO 2070 - Genetics: Molecules to Populations
    Primary Instructor - Summer 2018 / Spring 2019
    Lect. and rec. Covers principles of genetics and developmental biology at levels of molecules, cellular organelles, individuals and populations; asexual and sexual life cycles; heredity. Recitations allow discussion of genetics problems and implications of genetic principles and provide demonstrations and simulations of genetic processes. Intended for sophomore majors in EBIO. Recommended prerequisites: EBIO 1210 and EBIO 1220 and EBIO 1230 and EBIO 1240 (minimum grade C-). Credit not granted for this course and EBIO 2640.
  • EBIO 3080 - Evolutionary Biology
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2023
    Lect. and lab. Emphasizes the fundamental evolutionary concepts that provide explanations for the diversification of life on Earth. Specific topics include the evidence for evolution, adaptation by natural selection, speciation, systematics, molecular and genome evolution, and macroevolutionary patterns and processes. Recitations allow students to explore specific topics in more depth and smaller groups. Recommended prerequisites: EBIO 1210 and EBIO 1220 (minimum grade C-). Degree credit not granted for this course and EBIO 3680.
  • GEOG 4371 - Forest Geography: Principles and Dynamics
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2019
    Surveys principles of forest geography and ecology. Includes both individual tree responses to environmental factors and species interactions within communities. Emphasizes forest dynamics and their relation to management problems. Same as GEOG 5371.
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