• The Prairie Project–A collaboration of researchers, ranchers, students, and educators to share knowledge on current management practices and the most up-to-date research findings to address problems of woody plant encroachment, wildfire frequency, and an increasingly variable climate on the Great Plains. 

  • Member of the 2022–2024 educator cohort​

  • Updates to follow project completion

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• Genetics

  • Updates coming soon

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• Evolution

  • Speciation–This module was developed to be implemented within discussion sections to support the content covered in lecture. In these activities, students will learn to define speciation, identify mechanisms isolating populations, and evaluate the effects of hybridization. The homework requires students to recognize and interpret information presented in the provided video and the results from their analysis of a provided dataset. The excel file is fabricated data for the students to use that produces the same pattern observed by Lemmon et al. 2009.  

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• Introductory Biology​

  • As part of a scientific teaching course, several students and I put together a four-part series of lectures to be implemented in the non-majors biology curriculum at the University of Kansas. Our overarching learning goals were for students to be able to:​

    1. Describe and discuss information communicated in graphs and figures

    2. Identify when and how data is presented inappropriately or in a misleading format

    3. Differentiate reliable vs unreliable sources of information

  • Ultimately, the lecture series has been modified and piloted at the University of Kansas under the direction of Dr. Mark Mort. ​

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• Kansas DNA Day–In collaboration with Dr. Kaylee Herzog we produced a module on the topic of phylogeography that was implemented by both experts and non-experts for high school and middle school students in Kansas. 2018 pdf

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