About me
I fell in love with teaching microbiology to non-majors and allied health students because we start with a clean slate! It really makes you consider what it would be like to hear these things for the first time. That led to me to writing a textbook that embraced the same attitude. That led me to studying the gap between under-resourced students and well-resourced students and how to close that gap using classroom techniques. That led me to investigating reading levels in high school graduates and college students. So I keep learning how to teach and to write. I also teach epidemiology to non-major undergraduates, and have long believed that learning epidemiology is a fantastic way to learn critical thinking. And the pandemic showed us that we all could use more understanding of epi!
