2019 Teacher Fellows
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Kathie Ang
Chicago, IL |
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Sarah Tazghini
Brooklyn, NY |
2018 Teacher Fellows
Bellasanta Ferrer
Bellasanta teaches Life Science, Physical Science, and Literacy at John C. Haines Elementary in Chicago's Chinatown. She holds a PhD in Education Research Methodology and but began her career as an exploration geologist in the Philippines. Last year in her field research experience she collaborated with Brittany Beck on our field studies of aging in lizards as well as assisted with the construction of a field enclosure for behavioral observations. She has published several papers on science education.
Bellasanta teaches Life Science, Physical Science, and Literacy at John C. Haines Elementary in Chicago's Chinatown. She holds a PhD in Education Research Methodology and but began her career as an exploration geologist in the Philippines. Last year in her field research experience she collaborated with Brittany Beck on our field studies of aging in lizards as well as assisted with the construction of a field enclosure for behavioral observations. She has published several papers on science education.
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Brittany Beck
Brittany teaches Biology and Health at High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology in Brooklyn, New York. She has been recognized for her teaching as a Math For America Master Teacher Fellow and by the NYC Department of Education as a top 100 finalist for the Big Apple Teaching Award. For several years, Brittany's AP science students have studied how mealworms digest styrofoam (and the effects of this unusual feeding behavior on mealworm development and pupation)! |
2017 Teacher Fellows
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.
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.
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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 as a Teacher Fellow she collaborated with Lucia Ferrante on field studies of territorial aggression in female anoles. Aaron's students conducted a classroom project exploring how humidity impacts the tensile strength of spider silk. |
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 (RET) project. Fred and his students designed studies to identify the cues that cause 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. Adam and his students explored the ability of duckweed plants to remediate polluted water sources by accumulating heavy metals and contaminants. |
2015 Teacher Fellows
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Nick Kiriazis
Nick taught 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 Fellowship, Nick and his students designed an experiment to answer the question: Does a cockroach have a personality? The answer: yes! (sort of) |
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Brandon Pope
Pope teaches Biology and Environmental Science at Uplift Summit International Preparatory in Texas and he played a key role in our field study of anole territorial aggression in Behavioral Ecology. 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! He joined us to present this classroom research at the Evolution conference in Portland in 2017! |
