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Members of the Cooper Bio Ed Lab are bolded 

Students in bio ed course-based undergrad research experiences are italicized.  
          
 

2024

        Oct. 2024   Busch CA, Wiesenthal NJ, Gin LE, Cooper KM. Behind the graduate mental health crisis in science. Nature                                Biotechnology.
                             
Commentary: ASU News
 

        Oct. 2024   Jackson D. Yule K. Biera A. Hawley C. Lacson J. Webb E. McGraw K. Cooper KM. "Broadening Perspective                                      Activities" Improve LGBTQ+ Student Experiences and Religious Students' Content Comprehension. CBE                                      Life Sciences Education.
 

        Oct. 2024   Mohammed TF. Doud N. Brownell SE#. Cooper KM#. The upside to depression: Undergraduates benefit                                      from an instructor revealing depression in a large-enrollment physiology course. Advances in                                                    Physiology Education. #These authors contributed equally

        Oct. 2024   Goodwin E., Cooper KM., Gin LE*, Brownell SE. Addressing the need to facilitate undergraduate research
                              experiences for community college transfer students in science. Journal of Microbiology and Biology                                          Education.


         Oct. 2024    Edwards BA. Kolodisner J. Youngblood J. Cooper KM. Brownell SE. Students respond positively to an                                            instructor collecting and sharing aggregated class demographic data from a survey in a high-enrollment                                    physiology course. Advances at Physiology Education

        Sept. 2024  Maas SA#. Wiesenthal NJ#*. Brownell SE&. Cooper KM&. Disrupting the master narrative in academic                                      biology as LGBTQ+ Ph.D. students: learning, teaching, and conducting research. CBE Life Sciences. #These                                authors contributed equally. &These authors contributed equally.
 

        Sept. 2024  Plaiser SB, Alarid DO, Brownell SE, Buetow K, Cooper KM, Wilsdon MA. Design and implementation of an                                    asynchronous online course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) in computation genomics.                                    PLOS Computational Biology.
 

​        Aug. 2024   Pigart CJ, MacKinnon DP, Cooper KM. Academic social comparison: A promising new target to reduce                                           fear of negative evaluation in large-enrollment college science courses. International Journal of STEM                                         Education. 
                              Commentary: ASU News

 

June 2024   Mohammed TF, Aini R. Barnes ME, Cooper KMToward Culturally Responsive Mentoring of Muslim                                       Researchers in the Sciences. CBE Life Sciences Education.
 

June 2024   Busch CA, Nadile EM, Mohammed TF, Gin LE, Brownell SE, Cooper KM. The scientific rules, roles, and                               values that life sciences graduate students want to see upheld by undergraduate researchers. Journal of                             Research and Science Teaching.

 

 May 2024    Goodwin E, Gin LE, Aeshliman A, Afoakwa A, Allred B, Avalle S, Bell A, Berheimer J, Brzezinski H,

Campos R, Emerson H, Hess S, Montelongo A, Noshirwani N, Shelton W, Valdez E, White J, White Q, Wittekind E, Cooper KM, Brownell SE.  Who is represented in the research on undergraduate research experiences in the natural science? CBE Life Sciences Education.

 

April 2024   Busch CA, Bhanderi PB, Cooper KM#, Brownell SE#. Few LGBTQ+ science and engineering instructors

come out to students, despite potential benefits. CBE Life Sciences Education. #These authors contributed equally.

        April 2024   Busch CA, Cooper KM#, Brownell SE#. Beyond gender and race: Representation of hidden identities

among college science instructors. CBE Life Sciences Education. #These authors contributed equally.

Commentary: ScienceASU News, The Chronicle of Higher Education

2023

 

Nov. 2023   Ghosh A, Cohen KA, Jans L, Busch CA, McDanal R, Yang Y, Cooper KM, Schleider JM.

A digital single-session intervention (Project Engage) to address fear of negative evaluation among college students: a piolot randomized controlled trail. Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR).

 

July 2023    Busch CA*, Cooper KM, Brownell SE. Women drive efforts to highlight concealable stigmatized identities in                         U.S. academic science and engineering. PLoS One.

Commentary: Science, ASU News, Phys Org

 

June 2023   Busch CA*, Wiesenthal NJ*, Mohammed TF, Anderson S^, Barstow M^, Custalow C^, Gajewski J^,

Garcia K^, Gilabert C^, Hughes J^, Jenkins A^, Johnson M^, Kasper C^, Perez I^, Robnett B^, Tillett K^, Tsefrekas L^, Goodwin EC, Cooper KM. The disproportionate impact of fear of negative evaluation first-generation students, LGBTQ+ students, and students with disabilities in college science courses. CBE Life Sciences Education. *These authors contributed equally ^These authors contributed equally.

Commentary: ASU News

May 2023    Wiesenthal NJ*, Gin LE*, Cooper KM. Face negotiation in graduate school: The decision to conceal or

reveal depression among life sciences Ph.D. students in the United States. International Journal of STEM Education.
 

April 2023   Araghi T*&, Busch CA*&, Cooper KM. The aspects of active learning science courses that exacerbate

and alleviate depression in undergraduates. CBE Life Sciences Education. &These authors contributed equally
Commentary: ASU News

Jan. 2023    Cooper KM, Eddy SL, Brownell SE. Research anxiety predicts undergraduates’ intentions to pursue

scientific research careers. CBE Life Sciences Education.

 

Jan. 2023    Busch CA*^, Mohammed TF*^#, Nadile EM*^#, Witt ML^&, Vargas C^&, Tran M^&, Gazing Wolf

J^&, Brister D^&, Cooper KMCosts and benefits of undergraduates revealing depression to online science instructors. CBE Life Sciences Education. #These authors contributed equally. &These authors contributed equally.

 

2022

Sept. 2022  Abraham AE, Busch CA, Brownell SE, Cooper KM. Should I write about mental health on my med

school app? Examining medical school admissions committee member biases toward mental health conditions. Advances in Physiology Education.

        June 2022  Busch CA, Mohammed TF, Nadile EM, Cooper KM. Aspects of online college science courses that

alleviate and exacerbate undergraduate depression. PLoS One.

 

May 2022.  Busch CA. Supriya K. Cooper KM#. Brownell SE#. Unveiling concealable stigmatized identities in

class: The impact of an instructor revealing her LGBTQ+ identity to students in a large-enrollment biology course. CBE Life Sciences Education. #These senior authors contributed equally.


Commentary: NBC News, NewswiseASU News

 

        May 2022   Gin LE, Pais D, Cooper KM#, Brownell SE#. Students with disabilities in undergraduate research:

Challenges and opportunities. CBE Life Sciences Education. #These senior authors contributed equally.

 

April 2022  Gin LE*, Pais, DA*, Parrish K, Brownell SE, Cooper KMNew online accommodations are not enough:

The mismatch between student needs and supports given for students with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. *These authors contributed equally

Highlighted as a JMBE editor’s pick of the Opportunities and Challenges of Online Instruction special issue.

April 2022  Abraham A. Busch CA. Brownell SE#. Cooper KM#Instructor perceptions of student incivility in the

online undergraduate science classroom. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. #These senior authors contributed equally.

March 2022 Mohammed TF*, Gin LE*, Wiesenthal NJ*, Cooper KM. The experiences of undergraduates with

depression in online science learning environments. CBE Life Sciences Education.

 

2021

 

Nov. 2021   Mohammed TF*#, Nadile EM*#, Busch CA*#, Brister D&, Claiborne CT&, Edwards BA&, Gazing Wolf

J&, Lunt C&, Tran M&, Vargas C&, Walker KM&, Warkina TD&, Witt ML&, Brownell SE, Zheng Y, Cooper KM. Aspects of large-enrollment online college science courses that exacerbate and alleviate student anxiety. CBE Life Sciences Education. #These first authors contributed equally. &These authors contributed equally.

 

       Oct. 2021    Supriya K, Mead C, Anbar A, Caulkins JL, Collins JP, Cooper KM, Lepore PC, Lewis T, Pate A, Scott RA,

Brownell SE. Undergraduate biology students received higher grades during COVID-19 but perceived negative effects on learning. Frontiers in Higher Education. 

 

Sept. 2021 Yannier N, Hudson SE, Koedinger KR, Hirsh-Pasek K, Michnick Golinkoff R, Munakata Y, Doebel S,

Schwartz DL, Deslauriers L, McCarty L, Callaghan K, Theobald EJ, Freeman S, Cooper KM, Brownell SE. Instructor decisions and student anxiety. In Active learning: "Hands-on" meets "minds on". Science. 

 

Commentary: Forbes, U.S. News, The Harvard Gazette, MSN

Aug. 2021  Gin LE, Clark CE, Elliott DB, Roderick TB, Scott RA, Arellano D, Ramirez D, Vargas C, Velarde K,

Aeschliman A, Avalle ST, Berkheimer J, Campos R, Gerbasi M, Hughes S, Roberts JA, White QM, Wittekind E, Zheng Y, Cooper KM#, Brownell SE#. An exploration across institution types of undergraduate life sciences student decisions to stay in or leave an academic-year research experience. CBE Life Sciences Education. #These senior authors contributed equally.

 

Aug. 2021  Turner AN, Challa AK, Cooper KM. Student perceptions of authoring a publication stemming from a

course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE). CBE Life Sciences Education. 

 

July 2021   Gin LE#, Wiesenthal NJ#, Ferreira I, Cooper KM. PhDepression: Examining how graduate research

and teaching affect depression in life sciences Ph.D. students. CBE Life Sciences Education. #These authors contributed equally.

Commentary: Science

June 2021  Nadile EM, Williams KD&, Wiesenthal NJ&, Stahlhut KN&, Sinda KA&, Sellas CF&, Salcedo F&, Rivera

Comacho&, YI, Perez SG&, King ML&, Hutt AE&, Heiden A&, Gooding G&, Gomez-Rosado JO&, Ford SA&, Ferreira I&, Chin MR&, Bevan-Thomas WD&, Barreiros BM&, Alfonso E&, Zheng Y, 

Cooper KM. Gender differences in student comfort voluntarily asking and answering questions in large-enrollment college science courses. Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education. &These authors contributed equally. 

 

June 2021  Gin LE. Guerrero FA. Brownell SE. Cooper KMCOVID-19 and undergraduates with disabilities:

Challenges resulting from the rapid transition to online course delivery for students with disabilities in undergraduate STEM. CBE Life Sciences Education.     

April 2021  Gin LE#, Scott RA#, Pfeiffer LD, Zheng Y, Cooper KM&, Brownell, SE&. It's in the syllabus... or is it?

How syllabi can serve as tools for creating inclusive classrooms. Advances in Physiology Education. #these authors contributed equally, &these senior authors contributed equally.

April 2021   Ding Lu, Cooper KM, Stephens MD, Chi MTH, Brownell SE. Learning from error episodes in dialog-

videos: A comparison between higher- and lower-performing undergraduates in an authentic course study. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology. 

 

Feb. 2021   Cooper KM, Cala JM, Brownell SE. Cultural capital in undergraduate research: An exploration of how

biology students operationalize knowledge to access research experiences at a large, public research-intensive institution. International Journal of STEM Education. 

Commentary: PERbites, Small Pond Science

Jan. 2021   Cooper KM, Schinske JE, Tanner KD. Reconsidering the Share of a Think-Pair-Share:Emerging

Limitations, Alternatives and Opportunities for Research. CBE Life Sciences Education. 

 

Jan. 2021   Nadile EM, Alfonso E#, Barreiros BM#, Bevan-Thomas WD#, Brownell SE, Chin MR#, Ferreira I#, Ford

SA#, Gin LE, Gomez-Rosado JO#, Gooding G#, Heiden A#, Hutt AE#, King ML#, Perez SG#, Rivera Camacho YI#, Salcedo F#, Sellas CF#, Sinda KA#, Stahlhut KN#, Stephens MD, Wiesenthal NJ#, Williams KD#, Zheng Y, Cooper, KM. Call on me! Undergraduates’ perceptions of voluntarily asking and answering questions in front of large-enrollment science classes. PLoS One. #These authors contributed equally.

2020 

 

Nov. 2020   Cooper KM#, Knope ML#, Munstermann M, Brownell SE. Students who analyze their own data in a

course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) show gains in scientific identity and emotional ownership of research. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. #These authors contributed equally.

Oct. 2020    Gin LE, Guerrero FA, Cooper KM#, Brownell SE#.  Accessible active learning: To what extent is active

learning inclusive for science undergraduates with disabilities? CBE Life Sciences Education. #These senior authors contributed equally.

 

Commentary: ASU Teach Teach Blog

July 2020    Cooper KM#, Auerbach AJ, Bader JD, Beadles-Bohling AS, Brashears JA, Cline E, Eddy SE, Elliott DB,

Farley E, Fuselier L, Heinz HM, Irving M, Josek T, Lane AK, Lo SM, Maloy J, Nugent M, Offerdahl E, Palacios-Moreno J, Ramos J, Reid JW, Sparks RA, Waring AL, Gormally C#, Brownell SE#. Fourteen recommendations to create a more inclusive environment for LGBTQ+ individuals in academic biology. CBE Life Sciences Education. #These authors contributed equally

Commentary: ASU Teach Tech Blog

June 2020   Cooper KM, Gin LE, Brownell SE. Depression as a concealable stigmatized identity: What influences

whether students conceal or reveal their depression in undergraduate research experiences? International Journal of STEM Education. 

Commentary: BMC On Society

 

May 2020    Downing VR#, Cooper KM#, Cala JM, Gin LE, Brownell SE. Fear of negative evaluation and student

anxiety in community college active learning science courses. CBE Life Sciences Education. #These authors contributed equally.

May 2020    Cooper KM#, Gin LE#, Barnes ME, Brownell SE. An exploratory study of students with depression in

undergraduate research experiences. CBE Life Sciences Education. # These authors contributed equally.

Commentary: ASU Now, Small Pond Science , BMC On Society

April 2020   Cooper KM, Nadile EM, Brownell SE. Don’t joke about me: Student identities and perceptions of

instructor humor in college science courses. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education- Inclusive Science Special Issue.

Commentary: ASU Teach Tech Blog

Feb 2020     Cooper KM, Brownell SE. Student anxiety and fear of negative evaluation in active learning science

classrooms. Chapter in book: Active learning in college science, the case for evidence-based practice. Springer Nature.

2019

Nov 2019    Cooper KM, Blattman JN, Hendrix T, Brownell SE. The impact of broadly relevant novel discoveries on

student project ownership in a traditional lab course turned CURE. CBE Life Sciences Education. 

Oct 2019     Cooper KM, Brownell SE, Gormally C. Coming Out to the Class: Identifying Factors that Influence

College Biology Instructor Decisions About Whether to Reveal Their LGBQ Identity in Class. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering.

Aug 2019    Cooper KM*, Gin L*, Akeeh B, Clark CE, Hunter JS, Roderick TB, Elliott DB, Gutierrez LA, Mello RM,

Pfeiffer LD, Scott RA, Arellano D, Ramirez D, Valdez EM, Vargas C, Velarde K, Zheng Y, Brownell SE. Factors that predict biological sciences student persistence in undergraduate research experiences. PLoS ONE. *These authors contributed equally.

Commentary: Inside Higher Ed, ASU Now (i), ASU Teach Tech BlogASU Now (ii)PECOP Blog

Apr 2019     Cooper KM*Gin LE*, Brownell SE. Diagnosing differences in what undergraduates in a fully online and

an in-person biology degree program know and do regarding medical school admission. Advances in Physiology Education. These authors contributed equally.

Commentary: ASU News

2018

Sept 2018   Cala JM, Cooper KM, Brownell SE. Using a Sequential Interpretation of Data in Envelopes (SIDE)

approach to identify a mystery TRP channel. Course Source.

Aug 2018   Cooper KM, Brownell SE. Developing CUREs in discipline-based education research: Lessons learned

and recommendations. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education.

 

Aug 2018    Cooper KM, Hendrix T, Stephens M, Cala JM, Mahrer K,Agloro A, Badini G, Barnes ME, Eledge B, Jones

R, Krieg A, Lemon E, Mossimo N, Martin A, Ruberto T, Simonson K, Webb E, Weaver J, Brownell SE. To be or not to be funny? Student perceptions of instructor humor in college science courses. PLoS ONE.

Commentary: Inside Higher Ed, The Times Higher Education, ZME ScienceASU State Press, ASU Now, Reddit, WREK Radio Station, ASU Teach Tech Blog, Ask a Biologist 

July 2018   Wright CW, Huang AL, Cooper KM, Brownell Se. Exploring differences in decisions about exams among

instructors of the same introductory biology course. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 

June 2018   Cooper KM*, Downing V*, Brownell SE. The influence of active learning practices on student anxiety

in large-enrollment college science classrooms. International Journal of STEM Education. * These authors contributed equally.

Highlighted by Science Magazine as an Editor's choice

Commentary: Chemical and Engineering NewsASU Biology and Society, ASU Teach Tech Blog, STEM Prof Newsletter

May 2018    Cooper KM, Ding L, Stephens MD, Chi MTH, Brownell SE. A course-embedded comparison of

instructor-generated videos of either an instructor alone or an instructor and a student. CBE Life Sciences Education.

​       Commentary: Carleton College Academic Technology Blog

Apr 2018    Cooper KM, Krieg A. Brownell SE. Who perceives they're smarter? Exploring the influence of student

characteristics on student academic self-concept in physiology. Advances in Physiology Education.

Commentary: The New York Times, NBC news, ABC news, The Times

Additionally, USA: CNN, CNBC, ABC, Yahoo! News, Fortune, Inside Higher Ed, Science Daily, Science Newsline, Mother Jones, Jezebel, Slate The Gist, and AZ Central. UK:The Times, Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph, London Evening Standard, Times Higher Education,Irish Independent, Australia:The Australian, The Northern Star, India:DNA (Delhi), The Free Press Journal, The Times of India, as well as being featured in dozens of other blogs and news organizations.

Mar 2018    Cooper KC*, Ashley ME*, Brownell SE. Breaking down barriers: A bridge program helps first year

biology students become comfortable and make connections with faculty. Journal of College Science Teaching. *These authors contributed equally.

2017

 

Dec 2017    Ashley ME*, Cooper KC*, Cala JM, Brownell SE. Building better bridges into STEM: A synthesis of 25

years of literature on STEM summer bridge programs. CBE Life Sciences Education. *These authors contributed equally.

May 2017   Cooper KM, Ashely ME, Brownell SE. Using expectancy value theory as a framework to reduce student

resistance to active learning: a proof of concept. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. 

 

May 2017   Cooper KM, Soneral P, Brownell SE. Design your goals before you develop your CURE.  A call to use

backward design in planning course-based undergraduate research experiences. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education.

Mar 2017    Cooper KM, Ashley ME, Brownell SE. A bridge to active learning: A summer bridge program helps

students to maximize their active learning experiences and the active learning experiences of others. CBE Life Sciences Education.

Mar 2017    Cooper KM, Haney B, Krieg A, Brownell SE. What's in a name? The importance of students perceiving

an instructor knows their names in a high enrollment biology classroom. CBE Life Sciences Education.

Commentary: UCF Faculty Focus, Faculty Focus Blog, ASU Teach Teach Blog, Science Teaching Science Learning Blog, STEM Prof Newsletter

2016

Sept 2016   Cooper KM, Brownell SE. Coming out in class: Challenges and benefits of active learning in a biology

classroom for LGBTQIA students. CBE Life Sciences Education.

Commentary: ASU State Press, Teach Learn PimaASU Now, ASU Teach Tech Blog, Psych Central

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