Experience

Johnson County Community College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Aug 2003 - Present

  Teach BIOL 127: General Zoology, and BIOL 150: Biology of Organisms. Periodically also teach BIOL 121: Introductory Biology for Non-Majors.Taught BIOL 122: Principles of Biology, BIOL 123: Principles of Biology Laboratory from 2003–2010, when these two courses were replaced with the new BIOL 121 course.Lead Professor for Organismal Biology Program.JCCC Distinguished Service Award, 2012–2013.Sabbatical Leave, Spring 2011.Burlington Northern Santa Fe Faculty Achievement Award, 2010.JCCC College Scholar, 2008-2009. Show less

• • Aug 2003 - Present



The University of Kansas

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Aug 2003 - Present

  Adjunct Research Associate at the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center. Co-PI on NSF Assembling the Tree of Life grant (DEB 0732819; Collaborative Research: Assembling the Euteleost Tree of Life—Addressing the Major Unresolved Problem in Vertebrate Phylogeny). With PI E.O. Wiley (University of Kansas) and Co-PI G. David Johnson (Smithsonian Institution). Amount: $330,440.Molecular and morphological systematics of euteleost fishes, including Tetraodontiformes, Acanthuroidei, Lampriformes, Myctophiformes, and Mullidae. Show less

• • Jan 2008 - May 2008

  Teach Biol 100: Principles of Biology; lecture class of 900+ students.

• • Aug 2003 - May 2004

  Teach Evolutionary Biology at the KU Edwards Campus (Fall 2003, 12 students) and Principles of Biology at the KU Lawrence Campus (Spring 2004, 1000+ students).



The University of Kansas

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2002 - May 2003

  Teach three sections of Biology 152: Organismal Biology laboratory per semester. Teach three sections of Biology 152: Organismal Biology laboratory per semester.