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Guest scientist at Blount Elementary’s careers in science night for fifth graders, 1996
Presented two lectures on “DNA Fingerprinting” to eighth grade classes at D.C. Virgo Middle School; 1995
"Genetic Engineering" presentation to the Wilmington chapter of the AAUW; 1994
"The Human Genome Project" presentation to the Wilmington Senior Men's Club; 1991
"Reproductive Isolation in Drosophila." The Biology Seminar Series, Science and Mathematics
Education Center, UNCW (seminars for high school teachers); 1988.
Through the UNCW Science and Mathematics Education Center, presented lectures on genetics for
junior high school teachers in New Hanover, Pender, and Brunswick Counties; 1986
"Ethological Isolation of Drosophila." Presented to the Mid-Atlantic Drosophila Research Conference,
The Johns Hopkins University; 1986.
Judge, Blockade Runner Forensics Tournament; 1987, 1986
Judge, Williston Junior High School Science Fair; 1993, 1988, 1987, 1986
Honors
Discere Aude Award, 2010
Twice nominated for Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award
Named by one or more graduating seniors as the one person at UNCW who had significant impact on
their lives; each semester since the program was initiated.
Selection for America's Who's Who - America's Outstanding Women Of The Eighties, 1989
