The Office of Professional Development

I am very excited to begin a new position in the Graduate School as an Assistant Director for Professional Development. I will be working with the great team in the Graduate School to deliver workshops on communication, teaching, career preparation, and personal development. In particular, I am excited to focus on Individual Development Plans. Learn more…

Lab Talk with Laura

We had a great time talking with Laura Fattaruso from Lab Talk with Laura about our 3D printing project. Lab talk with Laura is also available on iTunes. Check it out! Creating STEM-Based Accessible Educational Materials using 3D Printing

World Usability Day New England

[foogallery id=”715″] World Usability Day New England at UConn was awesome! I started off the morning learning about “Accessibility and WordPress” from John Brandt (Maine CITE). I have some work to do on this site! I was excited to present our project to bring 3D printed molecules to my class room. This all started as…

myDNA student writes a program to translate DNA sequences

I was really impressed with this project! The students were asked to make something creative. This student chose to use his skills to write this little applicaiton. Click here to see Devon Endicott’s project for myDNA Here is some DNA sequence to use with it: ATGCAAATCACAATG You can see Devon’s page here

South College Video Screen Capture

BIOCHEM 275 filmed to highlight new South College building

Our class made it into the ribbon cutting video for the new South College building! We are teaching BIOCHEM-725, Molecular Biology, in the new flex room (West 245). It’s a great space both for lecture and group work. We are excited to have the opportunity to be one of the first classes to use it.

Innovate@UMass

Innovate@UMass

I was excited to participate in a 4 week symposium on technology in the classroom with Innovate@UMass. We learned about the seemingly endless tools that we have available to us at UMass. I selected three tools to bring into my molecular biology course and I can’t wait to see them in action in the Fall…