M.A., Ph.D. Princeton University
B.S. Manhattan College
Areas of Expertise:
Development and embryogenesis; cells; cell communication; cancer; evolution; evolutionary medicine; the connection between developmental biology and ecology and evolution; the history of science.
Courses I Teach:
- Cell Biology
- Communications in the Biological Sciences
- Developmental Biology
- Introduction to Cell Biology and Genetics
My research interests are developmental biology, cell biology, biology education.
I am the consulting editor for the Biology of Cancer book series published by Chelsea House. I wrote two books in the series and am in the midst of third.
I am in the process of writing the textbook, Biology for the Informed Citizen, on which I collaborated with my late husband Doug Green, to be published by Oxford University Press.
I also continue to work on the development of laboratory teaching models for college and high school instruction.
Manhattan College: Elected to the following honor societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Beta Beta Beta (Biology Honor Society), Epsilon Sigma Pi (Manhattan College Honor Society); 1974-78 Manhattan College Full Academic Scholarship; Dean's List 1974-78; received Biology Department and Research Medals, 1978.
Princeton University: 1978-80, 1981-82 National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral fellowship; 1980-81 Princeton University Graduate Fellowship; 1978-80 John Dunlop Prize; 1981-82 Merit Prize; 1982-83 American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship.
Worcester Foundation: 1983 Awarded NIH postdoctoral fellowship (declined)
1985 Awarded NIH postdoctoral fellowship
Saint Michael's College: 1987 Awarded SMC Research Grant
1988 Awarded SMC Research Grant
1989 Awarded Vermont EPSCoR Research Grant
1990 Awarded Vermont EPSCoR Research Grant
1990 Faculty Appreciation Award from the Class of 1990
1991 Awarded SMC Summer Grant
1992 Awarded SMC Faculty Development Grant (with Robert Niemi)
1992 Awarded National Science Foundation Grant for Laboratory Instrumentation Improvement
1993 Awarded SMC Faculty Development Grant
1995 Awarded SMC Faculty Development Grant
1996 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers
1996 Awarded National Science Foundation Grant for Laboratory
Instrumentation Improvement (co-principal investigator with
Glenn Bauer)
1997 Awarded SMC Faculty Development Grant (with Glenn Bauer)
1999 Gerald E. Dupont Award from the Student Association
2000 Who's Who of American Women
2001 Joanne Rathgeb Teaching Award
2003 Inducted into Delta Epsilon Sigma
2005 Who’s Who of American Education