Through a nationwide, multi-institutional study, the research term (Dr. Carly Busch, Parth Bhanderi, Dr. Katey Cooper, and Dr. Sara Brownell) explored how undergraduate biology students respond when their instructors disclose LGBTQ+ identities during class. Nine LGBTQ+ instructors at universities across U.S. states with varying levels of LGBTQ+ acceptance revealed their identities to a total of 2,045 students. Surveys measured students’ thoughts of this disclosure and its im

Felicity Miranda successfully defended her Master's thesis, focused on the experiences of LGBTQ+ science undergraduates in active learning after a decade of our original 2015 paper. Congratulations, Felicity!

Mary was featured by the School of Life Sciences (SOLS) Newsletter for her paper on a proof of concept of the Hopelessness Theory of Depression in a sample of undergraduate and graduate student researchers with depression. Her work offers insight into how science researchers may encounter stressors in research, namely in how they can: internalize stressors, believing that the stressor occurs due to their own inherent characteristics, stabilize stressors, believing that the