Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Rachael M. Hannah is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage. I am trained as a cerebrovascular physiologist whose recent experiences have led me to develop novel techniques to help students explore the scientific method and learn to create, develop and evaluate data. I utilize undergraduate research to help underrepresented minorities persist and complete their educational goals. The heart of my professional mission as an educator is to increase research opportunities for our students. Undergraduate research is the fabric of how students begin to identify themselves as a scientist, and sets forth a way by which they can find the spark of questions and well of creativity inside them that will propel them to be successful scientists. I am committed to using scholarly teaching to inform and shape my instructional practices. I am an active member of The Center for Physiology Education, SABER (Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research), PULSE (Partnership for Undergraduate Life Science Education) and FUN (Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience). I am dedicated to enriching students' scientific learning to provide opportunities for all students that allow their inner scientist to flourish and grow by using the scientific method. I continually seek avenues to take current research questions to the students with whom I work. Specifically, every course that I develop has at least one collaborative assignment and/or project whereby students must work together to solve problems with each other. In my courses Neurophysiology and Animal physiology, students must engage in experimental design projects whereby they create and support learning of physiology outside of the normal lecture/classroom space. This work helps students take responsibility for the invention and exploration of this field of using scientific experimentation.
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Identifying Critical Shifts to Navigate Collaborative Institutional Change
Saturday, November 9, 2024
9:45 AM – 10:15 AM East Coast USA Time
