Dr. Scott Freeman
Title: Evidence-based Teaching in Introductory Biology
Seminar Date & Time: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 @ 1:00 pm
Location: Biology Building, 68-181
Dr. Scott Freeman grew up in Wisconsin and received a B.A. in Biology from Carleton College in 1978. After working in environmental education and international conservation for six years, he did graduate work at the University of Washington (UW) on the molecular systematics and morphological evolution of blackbirds and received a Ph.D. in zoology in 1991. He had a Sloan Fellowship to support a post-doctoral fellowship in molecular evolution at Princeton University, then returned to the University of Washington as Director of Public Programs at the Burke Museum. Since the mid-1990s his focus has been on textbook writing and teaching. He co-authors Evolutionary Analysis and is sole author of Biological Science; both texts are in their 4th edition. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Biology at the UW, where he teaches introductory and upper-division courses and conducts research on how active learning techniques impact student performance. He is a recipient of a UW Distinguished Teaching Award.
