This is my 30th year as a full-time faculty member at Cincinnati State. I came to the College in 1994 when its name changed from Cincinnati Technical College to Cincinnati State. This was also when Associate of Arts and Associate of Science degrees were offered for the first time. I was hired to design and to teach our freshman-level introductory Biology courses for non-majors (now BIO 111 and 112) and for science majors (now BIO 131 and 132). I had previously taught for several years as an adjunct at Thomas More College and Northern Kentucky University, and spent 4 years as a Visiting Instructor at the University of Cincinnati's Blue Ash campus.
My undergraduate degree in Biology/Secondary Education was obtained at Thomas More College in 1974, and my Master's degree in Cell Biology was earned at the University of Cincinnati in 1976. At UC, I worked in a lab supervised by Dr. Antony Mukkada, where we investigated membrane transport in the flagellated parasite Leishmania tropica. My work there was subsidized by a National Science Foundation fellowship.
Currently I teach only BIO 111 (Biology: Unity of Life) in both face-to-face and online modalities. Beyond that, I serve as the Biology Department scheduler, am a long-time member and now co-chair of the Academic Technology Committee, and am active in the AAUP faculty union.
