Post Doctoral Associate May 2012 to August 2015
Mentor: Karen Mesce
Department of Entomology
University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
Post Doctoral Scholar September 2009 to April 2012
Mentor: Daniel Wagenaar
Department of Biology
Broad Fellows Program in Brain Circuitry
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Visiting Research Scholar Summer 2006
Mentor: Ansgar Büschges
Institute for Zoology at University of Cologne Germany
Mentors: Josef Schmitz, Volker Dürr
Department of Biological Cybernetics at University of Bielefeld.
PhD Biology Awarded August 2009
Mentor: Roy Ritzmann
Thesis title “Negotiation of Barriers by Intact and Brain-Lesioned Cockroaches”
Department of Biology
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
B.S. Biology Awarded January 2002
Department of Biology
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
VoiceThread Certified Educator 2021
Open Educational Resources Cohort Spring 2020, Summer 2020
Anti-Racist Pedagogy 2019
Course Source Pedagogy Writing Workshop 2018
Crawfly 2017
Mental Health First Aid 2017