Dr. Heather Olins awarded Teaching, Advising and Mentoring (TAM) grant by B.C.’s University Council on Teaching

Congratulations to Dr. Heather Olins on being awarded the Teaching, Advising, and Mentoring (TAM) grant by B.C.’s University Council on Teaching. With this award, Dr. Olins will expand an existing “Scientist Spotlight” video interview series (publicly available here) and more deeply integrate the work of these scientists in to the curriculum of her introductory course (BIOL2010: Introduction to Ecology & Evolution). The goal of the project is to create an easily accessible resource for introductory biology students to see examples of the fantastic variety of career trajectories in ecology and evolutionary biology, and hear about them from a diverse set of scientists. Dr. Olins hopes that sharing these scientist’s stories will help students, and in particular underrepresented minority students, more easily envision themselves in STEM fields in the future, and provide inspirational examples of a variety of paths forward in biology.