Bio: Dr. Ariel Anbar is a President’s Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the School of Molecular Sciences. He is a geochemist exploring Earth's past and future as an inhabited world, and the prospects for life beyond. He directs ASU’s Center for Education Through Exploration, which is reinventing digital learning around curiosity, exploration, and discovery.
This talk explores the inadequacy of framing equity in STEM education merely as inclusion into the established culture of canonical STEM reflexive solely of the epistemologies, ontologies, and axiologies of White middle-class heteropatriarchy.
Baylee Edwards is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in the Biology and Society program at Arizona State University. She explores student and instructor perceptions of the relationship between religion and evolution and how those perceptions impact student experiences and learning in undergraduate biology courses. Edwards is currently a research assistant in the Brownell Biology Education Research Lab.
Bio: Carly grew up in Houston, TX and earned her BA in Biology at Whitman College. After teaching introductory biology labs at the University of Washington in Seattle, Carly realized her interest in undergraduate biology education. She is currently a PhD student at ASU and is broadly interested in research to make undergraduate learning environments more equitable and inclusive. She is particularly interested in how students' identities impact their experiences in undergraduate biology spaces.
Barnes, M. E., Misheva, T., Supriya, K., Rutledge, M., & Brownell, S. E. (2022). A Revised Measure of Acceptance of the Theory of Evolution: Introducing the MATE 2.0. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 21(1), ar10.
Youngblood, J. P., Webb, E. A., Gin, L. E., van Leusen, P., Henry, J. R., VandenBrooks, J. M., & Brownell, S. E. (2022). Anatomical self-efficacy of undergraduate students improves during a fully online biology course with at-home dissections. Advances in Physiology Education, 46(1), 125-139.
Four junior researchers with disabilities describe their career experiences to date, and how colleagues can act as allies.
Inspired by personal experiences, PhD grad Logan Gin advocates for inclusive science education, especially for students with disabilities.
Arizona State University School of Life Sciences PhD alumna Elizabeth Barnes and Professor Sara Brownell have been awarded the 2021 Evolution Education Award from the National Association of Biology Teachers for their work overcoming the stigma that scientific teachings preclude religious beliefs.
When a 2018 study revealed that Ph.D. students suffer from depression at rates far higher than the general population, it sparked a landslide of concern about graduate student mental health, with some calling it a mental health crisis. The study highlighted a need to understand what aspects of graduate school affect depression, says Katelyn Cooper, an assistant professor at Arizona State University, Tempe, who studies student mental health.