Teona won first place in the Biology Education category at the 33rd Annual SOLS Undergraduate Research Symposium! Teona presented her posted titled "The impact of disability characteristics & type on student college experience: a national survey of undergraduate students with disabilities". Congratulations, Teona!

Katey was recently featured on the Ask A Biologist podcast, where she discussed how mental health shapes the way students learn science. In the episode, she explains how fear of failure, lack of confidence, and feeling like you don’t belong can hold students back but also how these challenges can be overcome. Katey highlights that making mistakes is actually a key part of learning, challenges labels like “not a science person,” and emphasizes that even professional scientis

Katey was nominated for, and won the 2026 School of Life Sciences Teaching Excellence and Innovation Award! Katey was awarded for her hard work to promote undergraduate research participation through her online, course-based undergraduate research experiences (oCUREs). Congratulations, Katey!