Overview of Courses

Teaching Experiences

CNB 501a/b: Human Gross Anatomy

June-August 2019, 2020 Keck School of Medicine @ USC

This is a cadaver based dissection course that serves as one of the core courses within the Anatomical Masters program at the Keck School of Medicine. I served as the instructor of record. I designed and presented course materials (including examinations) for both lecture and lab, instructed students in dissection techniques, and prepared prosections for lab. In 2020, redesigned course utilizing a combination of online asynchronous lectures and synchronous 3D model-based laboratory sessions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

CNB 504: Human Skeletal Anatomy

August-December 2019, 2020 Keck School of Medicine @ USC

This is a skeletal collection based osteology course that serves as one of the core courses within the Anatomical Masters program at Keck. I served as the co-instructor and helped design and implement lectures, assisted in examination design and generation of lab materials, and helped assign grades. In 2020, helped redesign course utilizing online asynchronous and synchronous lectures and assisted in the generation of 3D scans of human osteological material for laboratory instruction in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Human Gross Anatomy: Scars of Human Evolution

June-August 2017, 2018

This was a new undergraduate anthropology course in which students examined human anatomy and evolution using cadaveric dissections and prosections. I helped to design and refine course material, completed approximately 50% of the preparatory dissections for the prosection cadaver, gave input throughout the term and helped to graded final projects, mentored students on anatomy and technique during class dissections, and gave an in-class lecture on lower limb anatomy and my graduate research.

Medical Human Anatomy and Embryology

September-June 2017, 2018 Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine

This is a cadaver based dissection course for first year medical students at the Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine taught using team-based dissections, prosections, and case-based learning. I helped teach lab dissection techniques, covered instructor absences, instructed students on material, and helped prepare prosection cadavers.

Experiencing Human Origins and Evolution

September-November 2016 Dartmouth College

A four fields anthropology course that included a 3 week course extension in South Africa. Students learned about the ecology, history, geological context, and fossils of South Africa. I provided input on course content, helped design lab sections, mentored student projects, and served as a mentor during the extension.

Physiology

September-November 2015, 2017 Dartmouth College

This course serves as an introduction to comparative physiology. Students study how organisms maintain homeostasis in the face of different environmental demands. Each term, I led a laboratory section through exercises, directed and assisted with dissections, graded assignments and tests, provided input on course materials to the instructor, and helped student groups design final projects.

Genetic Variation and Evolution

January-March 2016 Dartmouth College

This course focuses on the fundamental processes and mechanisms of evolution on a population level that give rise to variation and diversity of living organism. I ran one of the lab sections, gave weekly lectures, helped grade assignments, and served as chaperone and mentor on class field trips.

Introduction to Biological Anthropology

September-November 2016 Dartmouth College
September 2014-May 2015 Boston University

At both Boston University during my masters, and Dartmouth College during my PhD. I served as a teaching assistent for the the introductory course to biological anthropology. I led laboratory sections (1 at Dartmouth, 5 over 2 semesters at BU). I gave lectures on course material and provided exercises, helped grade assignments and exams, prepared laboratory space, gave input on course material, and held office hours.

Scientific Outreach

It is critical that we as a scientific community continue to encourage and support the next generation of students to actively pursue science. For this reason, I am passionate about science education across all ages. While at Iowa State University, I helped recruit and retain women in STEM fields by participating in the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program and science tutoring as a member of Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority. I have helped mentor a female undergraduate, first brought to my project through Dartmouth’s Women in Science Project’s (WISP) Research Internship Program. As a post-doctoral scholar, I have also served as a research advisor for our IAS Master's students.

I enjoy the opportunity to present my research and promote scientific literacy. I participated in Dartmouth’s annual Science Day, an event put on by the Graduate Women in Science and Engineering group to teach local New Hampshire and Vermont sixth through ninth graders about the kinds of research being completed by Dartmouth graduate students. I return home to Iowa frequently to give talks my high school's science program about research in biological anthropology and the joys/challenges of higher education. I also take opportunities to present my research at public venues both locally, e.g., guest lectures for both the Montshire Museum of Science (Norwich, VT) and the Dartmouth Osher Life Long Learn Institute (Hanover, NH), as well as further afield, e.g., participating in the creation and instruction of one of Dartmouth's massive online open courses (MOOCs)-"Bipedalism: The Science of Upright Walking".