Current Graduate Student Research
Sarah SpauldingSex Roles in Animal BehaviorSarah Spaulding graduated in 2021. Her work was on how sex roles are represented in college animal behavior textbooks. Her research is interdisciplinary , includes both quantitative and qualitative methods and bridges evolutionary biology and feminist science studies. |
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Katherine Ray KingGender Essentialism in Anatomy ClassesKatherine Ray King graduated in 2021. Their research was focused on how we teach pre-nursing students about gender. They applied interesting analyses like the q-sort to understand student subjectivities about sex and gender. They also developed lessons on gender for introductory anatomy laboratories. |
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Katie HumrickMoral Reasoning Applied to GenomicsKatie Humrick graduated in 2020. She studied how we teach and how students understand genomics at the college level. Her work expands upon “writing to learn” and investigates how students use moral reasoning to respond to socioscientific issues in biology and genetics classes. |