As a senior lecturer, I strive to teach students to think critically and skeptically, to educate themselves thoroughly via multiple, reliable sources, and to think for themselves. Evolutionary theory provides the basis for this enterprise, as it allows me to show students how to recognize the differences between science, pseudoscience, and faith. I seek to show students how to view the world as a scientist, to analyze all aspects of a difficult problem, and make logical conclusions based on observable facts.

At the undergraduate level, I teach Evolution and Biodiversity, Genetics, Comparative Physiology, and Ecology for biology majors. I also teach several courses for non-science majors, including Introduction to Evolution, Biology of Plants, and Zoology. I am the coordinator of our first year laboratory courses. This involves creating and writing laboratory exercises that lead students through the scientific process, helping them design original research projects, learning to collect data, statistically analyze data, and draw valid scientific conclusions.

At the graduate level, my Teaching Techniques in Biology course is designed to train graduate student lab instructors in effective teaching techniques via demonstration, peer critique, and hands-on teamwork to create a stimulating intellectual environment for our undergraduates.

Dana M Krempels

Senior Lecturer

University of Miami

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