As an Education Program Specialist, Barb provides programming and consulting with units and programs in various STEM fields on the Twin Cities and Duluth campuses. With expertise in designing curriculum and learning environments that aspire to reach and teach all students, Barb supports educators of all levels. She will be teaching in the Preparing Future Faculty program beginning Fall 2024, and looks forward to continuing to teach graduate students at the University of Minnesota which she has done for the past 16 years in College of Education and Human Development. Barb also 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
- Swenson School of Science and Engineering (Duluth)