2015 Teacher Fellows
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Nick Kiriazis
Nick teaches Ecology, Biology, and Field Science at Venture Academy High School in Utah. During the first year of his Fellowship, Nick contributed to a study of sex differences in anole territorial aggression that we recently published in Behavioral Ecology. During the second year of his Fellowhip, Nick and his students designed an experiment to answer the question: Does a cockroach have a personality? Stay tuned for their results! |
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Brandon Pope
Pope teaches Biology and Environmental Science at Uplift Summit International Preparatory in Texas. Pope also played a key role in our recent field study of anole territorial aggression in Behavioral Ecology. During the second year of his Fellowhip, he and his students discovered that cues from fish predators shorten the development time of mosquito larvae. As a result, these cues also reduce sex differences in the size of adult mosquitoes! |
2016 Teacher Fellows
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Fred Hingst
Fred teaches AP Biology, Biology, Zoology and Earth science at DeWitt High School in Michigan. Prior to joining Evolution Education, Fred studied the evolution of E. coli bacteria through a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Teachers project in Richard Lenski’s lab at Michigan State University. Fred and his students are now conducting a study to identify the cues that cause typically asexual duckweed plants to flower and have sex! |
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Adam Rotche
Adam teaches AP Environmental Science and Chemistry at Blacksburg High School in southwestern Virginia. In 2016, Adam helped us sample anoles from island populations in Florida. In collaboration with Fred Hingst, Adam and his students are now focusing on duckweed. However, they are taking a slightly different angle by exploring the ability of these plants to remediate polluted water sources by accumulating heavy metals and contaminants. |
2017 Teacher Fellows
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Lucia Ferrante
Lucia teaches Science and Special Education at Port Chester High School in New York. In 2016, Lucia received a Fund For Teachers Fellowship to study in the Galapagos islands. As an Evolution Education Teacher Fellow, she helped us test whether female anole lizards with atypical "male-like" back coloration differ from typical "female-like" morphs in their behavioral responses to territorial intrusions. Stay tuned for more info! |
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Aaron Willey
Aaron teaches Introductory Biology and Biological Research & Experimental Design at UNC School of the Arts in North Carolina. She has published in Science & Children and recently collaborated with Lucia Ferrante on our field studies of territorial aggression in female anoles. Aaron's interests range from the materials science of spider silk to the cryptozoology of Bigfoot, and we're excited to see what studies she plans with her students next year! |
