Hispanic, Argentine national and naturalized US citizen, fully bilingual.
Education & Training
PhD Biology, University of Texas, Austin, 1994
MA Ecology, Evolutionary, & Organismal Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1989
Graduate studies (non-degree), Systems Sciences Institute, University of Louisville, KY, 1983-1984
BA Zoology, Mathematics minor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1981
Khan for Educators, Khan Academy, May 2023
Certificate in Effective College Instruction, The Association of College and University Educators and The American Council on Education, January 2022
Reader Certificate, Educational Testing Service, AP Environmental Science exam, June 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023
Online Course Certificate, D’Youville College, Spring 2018, February 4-March 2
Awards & Honors
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Teaching Innovation, D’Youville College, 2019-2020.
Advisory Committee, the Institute for Teaching Innovation, D’Youville College, 2018-2020
BiosciEdNet Scholar administered by the AAAS, the American Physiological Society, and the American Society for Microbiology 2011 (not able to participate).
Faculty Fellow - Western New York Service Learning Coalition (www.wnyslc.org), Daemen College, Amherst, NY 2009
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers 9th ed. 2005
Committee on College Science Teaching affiliated with the National Science Teacher’s Association 2004
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers 8th ed. 2004
The Scholarship of Teaching & Learning 2nd ed. http://www.buffalostate.edu/pdf/scholarship.pdf 2004
Scholar at the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Institute, Rockhurst University (KS) 2003
Campus Hero Award, Office of Services for Students with Disabilities, Buffalo State College 2002
Since Research Link 2000, I have used rapid cycling Brassica rapa to investigate the fitness consequences of individual variation in life history traits, evidence for their inheritance, and evolution. Since the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 2001, I have worked to incorporate the principles of scholarship of teaching and learning into my teaching and research.
