NANSLO Partners / Discipline Panels

Biology Discipline Panel

Each discipline panel contains members representing a balance among the two-year and four-year schools involved in the project. The members will participate in a two-day workshop in late spring 2011 to review the biology lab curriculum from BCcampus and Colorado Community College System and make recommendations for the RWSL equipment & kits needed to support it at CCCS. They will work together on an ongoing basis during the project via the project website and panel listserv. Each term the panel will convene by conference call to review student outcomes for those enrolled in the new online lab at CCCS and make recommendations for changes to it for the next term. The members will also provide recommendations for expanding the project to include other institutions thereby establishing the North American Network of Science Labs Online.

British Columbia

Carol Pollock
Senior Instructor and Director of First Year Biology
University of British Columbia
pollock@zoology.ubc.ca

Carol Pollock is a Senior Instructor in Zoology and Director of first-year Biology at UBC. She teaches undergraduate lab and lecture courses in years 1 through 4. Her research interests are how students learn, assessing student learning gains and facilitating student learning. She received her B.Sc. (honours) degree in Microbiology and M.Sc. in Zoology from the University of Manitoba and her Ph.D. in Zoology from UBC.
 

Frank Williams
Biology Department Chair
Langara College
fwilliams@langara.bc.ca

Frank Williams teaches ecology and environmental studies at Langara College in Vancouver BC, and currently serves as Dept Chair for Biology, and Coordinator for the Environmental Studies Program. He has also served as designer and Coordinator for a series of field programs on the Fraser River, Haida Gwaii, the Mekong and Chao Phrya rivers, and in health projects in Tanzania. Frank received his B.Sc. from the University of Victoria, and a Masters of Pest Management and Ph.D. (Biology) from Simon Fraser University.

Colorado Community College System

Kate B. Lormand
Adjunct Faculty
Colorado Community College Online (CCCOnline)
Katharine.Lormand@cccs.edu

Kate Lormand has over 20 years of experience as a biology instructor at the community college level in both majors and non-majors biology, anatomy and physiology, genetics, and botany. She has worked at Community Colleges in both California and Colorado as an Adjunct Faculty and her experience includes both traditional face-to-face courses and on-line teaching. Additionally, Kate worked on the development of an on-line biology course through the Monterey Institute writing an on-line text and creating the activities and learning objectives for these chapters. She has been responsible for both the development of new courses as well as the refinement of existing course to meet evolving standards.

Satellite Campuses

Tracy Dougher
Associate Professor of Horticulture
Montana State University - Bozeman
tracyaod@montana.edu

Tracy Dougher is an Associate Professor of Horticulture with extensive experience in teaching and research. She has taught hybrid online/face-to-face courses for the last 4 years and taught Life Sciences by Inquiry online as a part of the state-supported NSF MSP program for urban and rural science teachers in Montana. Her current research involves assessing the efficacy of hybrid online/face-to-face post-secondary courses. She serves as a member of the Montana State University Teaching Learning Committee and western region director-elect for the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture. Tracy received her B.A. in mathematics from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, M.S. in Horticulture from Purdue University, and Ph.D. in Crop Physiology from Utah State University.

Scott Seville
Associate Dean in the Outreach School,
Wyoming INBRE Program Coordinator, and
Associate Professor of Zoology and Physiology
University of Wyoming/ Casper Center
sseville@uwyo.edu

R. Scott Seville has served as Associate Dean in the University of Wyoming (UW) Outreach School since 2005. He oversees special projects including the University's WICHE-Internet Course Exchange program, National Institutes for Health-funded Wyoming IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence Program and directs the statewide network of Regional Academic Centers. Seville is also Associate Professor of Zoology and Physiology and has taught a variety of courses using different distance approaches. Prior to joining the faculty at UW he was a NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow with the Ontario (Canada) Ministry of Natural Resources. He received his B.S. in Zoology and Physiology from San Diego State University, and a second B.S. in secondary science education, M.S. in Parasitology, and Ph.D. in Zoology and Physiology all from UW.

Ami Wangeline
Instructor
Laramie County Community College
awangeli@lccc.wy.edu

Ami Wangeline is Biology faculty at Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne, WY where she teaches botany, cell biology and biology for non-science majors, and conducts research with her students on seleniferous habitats. She is part of a statewide network of faculty working with undergraduate researchers and also has facilitated workshops with the Council on Undergraduate Research to increase access to primary research experiences for students at community colleges. She previously taught at Colorado State University and with Teach for America. Wangeline received her A.B. in Biology from Ripon College (WI), a M.S. in Plant pathology from the University of Wyoming, and a Ph.D. in Botany from Colorado State University.