Transforming College Teaching: Statewide implementation of the Faculty Learning Program to improve STEM undergraduate teaching and learning

Transforming STEM Teaching Faculty Learning Program is a program designed as part of an NSF-WIDER Grant, and is now being more broadly implemented as part of an NSF-Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) Grant, to help instructors of large lecture STEM courses enhance their teaching practices and improve student learning gains. The program focuses on t...

Collaborative Research: Trait evolution and the stability of ecological communities

Environmental changes, such as those associated with global climate change, can affect the stability of natural communities. These same changes may also affect how species evolve, especially on very short time scales (months to decades). The goal of this project is to understand how to measure and predict the stability of natural communities, particularly when species evolve in response to environmental changes. W...

RUI: Collaborative Research: Genetic variation as a driver of host and symbiont response to increased temperature on coral reefs

On coral reefs, mutualisms with single celled algae (Symbiodinium) and reef species literally and figuratively form the foundation of reef ecosystems. Coral reefs are among the most threatened ecosystems under a changing climate and are rapidly declining due to increasing levels of environmental stress, namely increased temperatures. Climate change is resulting in even...