As an Education Program Specialist, Barb consults with faculty and instructors, provides custom workshops for departments and units, and facilitates impactful CEI programming. With expertise in designing curriculum and learning environments that aspire to reach and teach all students, Barb supports educators of all levels. She is leading the Inclusive STEM Teaching program, facilitating the Student Experience Project (SEP), and Gateways to Learning (G2L) programs and she is supporting a cohort of faculty from across the University in the SEISMIC Phase 2 collaboration.
She teaches aspiring faculty in the Preparing Future Faculty program, and appreciates teaching graduate students at the University of Minnesota which she has done for the past 18 years in CEI and the College of Education and Human Development. Barb co-teaches a Grand Challenge Curriculum course in the College of Veterinary Medicine called, GCC 3016 Science and Society: Working Together to Avoid the Antibiotic Resistance Apocalypse. She has also worked with Twin Cities PBS on their SciGirls curriculum and has provided workshops to educators across the country since 2009.
Barb earned her B.A. in Biology from Carleton College, and an M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Science Education at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. And in between she spent five years working in academic research labs at the University of Chicago and the University of Minnesota; ask her about telomeres or fruit flies anytime.
Barb serves as liaison to:
- College of Biological Sciences
- College of Science and Engineering
- College of Veterinary Medicine
- Swenson School of Science and Engineering (Duluth)