teaching
Clemson University
General Biology I
Fall 2022: Instructor of record
- This course is the first in a two-semester sequence and covers an evolutionary approach to cells, cellular activities, genetics, and animal diversity.
- Course syllabus.
University of Oklahoma
Plagues and People
Fall 2014 - Spring 2015: Instructor of record (online and in-person)
- In this course students learn about the impact of diseases such as rabies, plague, smallpox, polio, measles, and HIV on human society - from their effects on populations to how they have influenced the course of history. In this course we identify social and cultural factors and conditions that influence and impede the rate and spread of contagious diseases as well as ethical issues that arise concerning the treatment of the sick and policies designed to halt epidemics.
- Course syllabus.
Workshops
Beginner R Programming for Biological Anthropologists (And Other Folks Too!)
2016, 2018
- Workshop covers the basics of R syntax, running loops, writing your own simple functions, and data visualization. Skills learned in the workshop are used to explore and summarize a large craniometric dataset (Howells 1996) with associated climatic data.
- Workshop materials.
Python for Biology
2015, 2018
- Workshop covers basic python syntax, data visualization, data manipulation, and common python packages for biological analyses including BioPython, Pandas, and the interactive python environment IPython
- Workshop materials.