BIOL 344, Plant Diversity and Evolution
BIOL 345, Plant Ecology
BIOL 495, Assessing Virginia's Plant Biodiversity (directed study)
see product of BIOL 495 student research! (pdf), a poster presented at the 2008 NCSE conference, Washington DC.
BIOL 520, Systematics of Complex Angiosperm Families
EVPP 335, People, Plants and Culture

[All course material is located on GMU's WebCT site]

My (brief) philosophy of teaching: Training students in the biological sciences should do more than present a collection of facts. First and foremost, the pursuit of science is about asking informed questions and developing ways to answer them. As such, I ask my students to go beyond memorization and to practice being scientists themselves by synthesizing facts, by evaluating primary literature, and by presenting their findings.

Plants are integral parts of our daily lives, whether we know it or not. One of my greatest rewards as a teacher is helping students develop intellectually while they reacquaint themselves with the natural world outside the classroom walls.