My Professional Life: I have just finished 37 years of teaching Biology at UMD. Besides General Biology and Animal Biology, my courses have included Human Anatomy, Natural History of Invertebrates, and most recently, Biology and Society. I hold a B.S. degree in Biology and an M.S. degree in Zoology, both from the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Although my major responsibility has been the teaching of large undergraduate courses, my background does include research and a number of publications in the area of aquaculture, specifically bait leeches. I have served for the last several years as an Associate Department Head, dealing primarily with advisement, student affairs and curricular issues. I am also the editor of the annual Biology newsletter, the Life Scientist. I enjoy the variety of activities in my job, although teaching is still my favorite. My latest challenge is to effectively learn and use some of the new electronic and biotechnology tools in teaching my classes. You are currently viewing my first web site and this quarter you will see several PowerPoint presentations in lecture.
My Personal Life: I live in Cloquet with my husband and two cats. We have three married daughters and two granddaughters, ages 10 months and 22 months. I am an active member of my church and especially enjoy singing in choir and with a contemporary music group. My favorite leisure-time activities are golf, my flower garden, photography and of course, spending time with my children and grandchildren.
Jenny is a master's degree student completing her graduate work in stream ecology this summer. Her field data, an investigation of 15N tracers in an arctic stream food web, was collected in Alaska, where she has spent the last two summers. Jenny has a B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin, Steven's Point. Before coming to UMD, she worked as a research technician at the UW Center for Limnology and also as a biologist for the EPA. During the past two years, she has been a Teaching Assistant for General Biology, Animal Biology, and Ecology, besides working on aquatic insect samples as a Research Assistant.