Instructors
Dr Andrew Read,
Course Director
Director, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics,
Professor of Biology and Entomology,
208 Mueller Laboratory,
The Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA 16802, USA
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Undergrad Teaching Assistants
Carolyn (Cally) Prutting crp5166@psu.edu
Suzanne Zakaria sxz5046@psu.edu
Guest Instructors
Do fish feel pain?
Dr Victoria Braithwaite v.braithwaite@psu.edu
Professor of Fisheries and Biology lab
College of Agricultural Science & Eberly College of Science
How good is science journalism?
Faye Flam fflam@phillynews.com
Science writer blog
Philadelphia Inquirer action site trapeze artist
What will we do when the oil runs out?
Dr Thomas Mallouk tem5@psu.edu lab
Evan Pugh Professor of Materials Chemistry and Physics
Director, Center for Solar Nanomaterials
Eberly College of Science
What is the universe?
Dr Daniel Larson djlarson@psu.edu
Verne M. Willaman Dean College
Eberly College of Science
What does magic say about the need for science?
Dr Graham Spanier president@psu.edu
President, Penn State University biog class experience
How did life arise - and how to win a Nobel Prize?
Dr Jack Szostak lab
Harvard University class experience
2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine
Nanotechnology: good or bad?
Dr Mary Beth Williams mew17@psu.edu
Professor of Chemistry, lab
Dean for Undergraduate Education, Eberly College of Science
The man behind the blog
Chris Stubbs cas391@psu.edu
Teaching and Learning with Technology
Instructional Alumni
2010
What causes ulcers - and how to win a Nobel Prize?
Dr Barry Marshall
University of Western Australia
Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology 2005
What did the Gulf Oil spill do to the corals?
Dr Chuck Fisher
Professor of Biology,
Penn State University