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PRESENTATIONS“Flower, Fruit, and Seed” for Women in Science and Math Conference, Siena Heights College, March 1991
“Everyday Genetics” for Women in Science and Math Conference, Siena Heights College, March 1992
“Adventures of Women in Botany” for Women’s History month, UNC-Asheville, 18 March 1995
“Control of Acid Phosphatase Secretion in Pitchers of Sarracenia purpurea” 20 March 1998, American Society of Plant
Physiology, Southern Section meeting, Roanoke, VA
Panel discussion “Genetics in the New Millenium” 20 February 2001
Panel discussion “The Primate – Human Connection” 9 April 2002
Panel discussion “The Truth – What is it?” 22 March 2006
“The Discovery of DNA” for the Fabulous Fifties Lecture Series, UNCW, 14 November 2007
GRANTS4-S Student mentoring grant, $2000, awarded Fall 1991, to carry out research on gravity perception and gravitropism in
pea (Pisum sativum).
University Research Council grant, awarded Spring 1996, “Enzyme Secretion in the Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia
purpurea”, $1440, to initiate studies with students on enzyme secretion in the pitcher plant.
North Carolina Biotechnology Center Educational Enhancement Grant NCBC#9702-EEG-6003, awarded Spring 1997,
“Incorporating Immunochemistry into Biology Laboratory Experience”, $17,625.
HONORS AND AWARDSNominated for teaching awards, 1994 and 1998
UNCW CTE Teaching Initiative, for proposal “Communicating Science to Children”, 2005
Lecturer of the Year, 2007
Summer Curriculum Development Initiative, 2013