Biology Education

Jody is an instructor in multiple biology courses and serves as advisor for concentrators in Biology and Health & Human Biology. She holds a dual Bachelor of Science degree in Botany and Zoology from the University of Rhode Island and a Master of Arts in Biotechnology from Harvard University. With a clinical and research background in genetics, Jody came to Brown in 1990 to develop a laboratory curriculum for several undergraduate Biology courses. She strives to use laboratory instruction as a versatile tool for accomplishing a wide range of learning goals including reinforcing lecture material, exercising critical thinking, and building transferable technical skills. She has served on the Undergraduate Laboratory Instruction Task Force, the Biology Undergraduate Education DIAP Committee and was a recipient of the Brown CIS Teaching with Technology Award. Jody teaches BIOL 200 Foundations of Living Systems, BIOL 470 Genetics, and BIOL 100 Living Biology, a seminar course for first-year students, as well as courses in the Summer@Brown Program.