Investigative Biology Director receives distinguished teaching award along with former undergrad TA and faculty mentor: Dr. Mark A. Sarvary, the Director of the Investigative Biology Laboratories, received the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) award from Dean Kathryn Boor, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences…
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Staff Attends EdTech Day
Staff Attends EdTech Day KC Ryan, Assistant Laboratory Coordinator, and Dr. Mark Sarvary, Laboratory Director attended the 2015 EdTech Day at Ithaca College. This event features faculty and staff demonstrating how they are making use of educational technology. Our staff got to sample a variety of educational technology, including but not limited to the video…
From the Desk of the Director: Tour-guides on a Journey Called Biology
Have you ever watched the campus tour-guides walking backwards, telling cool stories about your university? If a tour group is too big, the people in the back lose interest quickly. Our graduate student lab instructors face a similar challenge: multiple student research groups design, set-up, and analyze different experiments in our teaching labs. It is easy to get too involved with assisting one group while accidentally ignoring others, who therefore do not receive similar guidance on their scientific journey. …