Higher Education Faculty and Graduate Student Expertise

Higher education faculty and graduate students listed below have agreed to be contacted by teachers to begin a dialog about the needs and extent of collaboration.  Please contact them directly to discuss your request.  If you have any questions about P-16 collaborations, please email Nancy Vandergrift.

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences | Biology | Geology | Marine Science | Mathematics | Microbiology | Science Education

 

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Name Maria Navarro
Email mnavarro@uga.edu
Dept. Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication
Expertise Fighting worldwide hunger
Willing to participate with the following grade levels:
  • Pre-K: no
  • Elementary: Yes
  • Middle School: Yes
  • High School: Yes
Name John Ricketts
Email jcr@uga.edu
Dept. Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication
Expertise Experiential Learning and Teaching for Critical Thinking in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Willing to participate with the following grade levels:
  • Pre-K: no
  • Elementary: yes
  • Middle School: yes
  • High School: yes

Biology

Name Peggy Brickman
Email brickman@uga.edu
Dept. Plant Biology and Biology Division
Expertise Inquiry Labs and Group Case Studies Work
Willing to participate with the following grade levels:
  • Pre-K: no
  • Elementary: yes
  • Middle School: yes
  • High School: yes
Name Scott Gold
Email sgold@uga.edu
Dept. Plant Pathology
Expertise Genetics, Biology, Fungi, Plants, Plant Pathology
Willing to participate with the following grade levels:
  • Pre-K: yes
  • Elementary: yes
  • Middle School: yes
  • High School: yes
Name Ava Howard (PhD candidate)
Email arhoward@uga.edu
Dept. Plant Biology
Expertise plant physiology, plant ecology, inquiry in organismal labs
Willing to participate with the following grade levels:
  • Pre-K: yes
  • Elementary: yes
  • Middle School: yes
  • High School: yes
Name David Knauft
Email dknauft@uga.edu
Dept. Horticulture Department
Expertise Collaborate on research program using crapemyrtles
Willing to participate with the following grade levels:
  • Elementary: yes
  • Middle School: yes
  • High School: yes
Name Kathrin Stanger-Hall
Email ksh@uga.edu
Dept. Plant Biology
Expertise Critical thinking, problem solving, animal and plant physiology, human reproductive biology,
ecology, fireflies
Willing to participate with the following grade levels:
  • Pre-K: no
  • Elementary: yes
  • Middle School: yes
  • High School: yes

Geology

Name Michael Roden
Email mroden@gly.uga.edu
Dept. Geology
Expertise Earth Sciences
Willing to participate with the following grade levels:
  • Pre-K: no
  • Elementary: no
  • Middle School: yes
  • High School: yes

Marine Science

Name Catherine Teare Ketter
Email cmscatk@uga.edu
Dept. School of Marine Programs
Expertise Aquatic Biology, Marine Science
Willing to participate with the following grade levels:
  • Pre-K: no
  • Elementary: yes
  • Middle School: yes
  • High School: yes

Mathematics

Name Chandra Orrill
Email corrill@uga.edu
Dept. Learning Performance and Support Laboratory (LPSL)
Expertise Mathematics
Willing to participate with the following grade levels:
  • Pre-K: no
  • Elementary: yes
  • Middle School: yes
  • High School: no

Microbiology

Name Wendy Dustman
Email wdustman@uga.edu
Dept. Microbiology
Expertise Microbiology, Marine Science, Environmental Biology
Willing to participate with the following grade levels:
  • Pre-K: no
  • Elementary: yes
  • Middle School: yes
  • High School: yes
Name Jan Mrazek
Email mrazek@uga.edu
Dept. Microbiology and Institute of Bioinformatics
Expertise Bioinformatics, Comparative Genomics, Statistical Analyses of DNA Sequences
Willing to participate with the following grade levels
  • Pre-K: no
  • Elementary: no
  • Middle School: possibly
  • High School: yes
Name Joy Doran Peterson
Email jpeterso@uga.edu
Dept. Microbiology
Expertise Microbiology, Microbial Ecology, Alternative Fuels
Willing to participate with the following grade levels:
  • Pre-K: yes
  • Elementary: yes
  • Middle School: yes
  • High School: yes
Name William B. Whitman
Email Whitman@uga.edu
Dept. Microbiology
Expertise Microbiology, especially environmental
Willing to participate with the following grade levels:
  • Pre-K: yes
  • Elementary: yes
  • Middle School: yes
  • High School: no

Science Education

Name Tom Koballa
Email tkoballa@uga.edu
Dept. Mathematics and Science Education
Expertise Inquiry-based teaching, science teacher mentoring
Willing to participate with the following grade levels:
  • Pre-K: no
  • Elementary: yes
  • Middle School: yes
  • High School: yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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