Achieve for Scientific American Biology for a Changing World with Physiology (1-Term Online)

Michele Shuster

Michèle Shuster, Ph.D., is the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Arts and Sciences at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. In her life as a Professor in the Biology Department, she focused on biology teaching and learning and taught introductory biology, microbiology, and cancer biology classes at the undergraduate level. She has also worked on several STEM education grants. Michèle has mentored graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in effective teaching, thereby preparing the next generation of undergraduate educators. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the Westhafer Award for Teaching Excellence at NMSU. Michèle received her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University School of ­ Medicine, where she studied meiotic ­ chromosome segregation in yeast.

Janet Vigna

Janet Vigna, Ph.D., is a Professor of Biology and Associate Dean for Student Success in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. She is a science education specialist, with a passion for training and mentoring K–12 science teachers and teaching nonmajors biology. Her professional interests include the development of curriculum and student success programming that embeds high impact experiential learning. She has been recognized with several teaching awards, including the Michigan Science Teachers Association College Science Teacher of the Year. She received her B.S. in biology from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Iowa.

Matthew Tontonoz