OUR MISSION
Our campaign to evolve the culture of biology into 21st century teaching, is through developing training for potentially thousands of future faculty in intentional, evidence-based teaching (EBT) practices. This collaborative work builds and expands upon a formerly funded NSF Research Coordination Network, the Biology Teaching Assistant Project (BioTAP).

We will transform the momentum gained by BioTAP into a new phase through this funded work: Evolving the Culture of Biology: Promoting Graduate Teaching Assistant Professional Development to Foster Efficacy, and Evidence-based Practices. Here we will develop, facilitate, and evaluate a series of regional Evolving the Culture of Biology (ECB) Workshops, designed to host teams of scholars from institutions across the nation.

Evolving the culture of biology
through teaching assistant training in evidence-based practices

Do you train or work with teaching assistants (TAs) and are interested in developing and/or improving TA professional development

at your institution?

Consider applying to be a funded ECB Scholar!

Check out this podcast episode produced by the Portland State University series PDXPLORES on the ECB Project!

Mitra Asgari, Senior Personnel

Assistant Teaching Professor, Division of Biological Science

University of Missouri, Columbia

Adam Chouinard, co-PI

Senior Instructor, Department of Integrative Biology

Oregon State University

Kaleb Heinrich, EdD, co-PI

Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences University of Alabama

Stephanie Gutzler, co-PI

Academic Professional, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Biology

Georgia State University

Star Lee, co-PI

Assistant Professor of Teaching

University of California, Irvine

Diyala Shihadih

Postdoctoral Scholar

Portland State University

Erin Shortlidge, PI

Associate Professor of Biology

Portland State University