Service
- 2023-current Department of Biology Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) Committee Member
- 2020-current Department of Biology Strategic Planning Committee Member
- 2020-current Department of Biology Retention Committee, chair
- 2019-current Department of Biology Advising Committee Member
- 2017-current Ogden College Retention Taskforce, Co-chair 2019-current
- 2017-current Department of Biology Graduate Committee
- 2017-current Department of Biology Retention Committee, Chair 2019-20
- 2016-current Board of Directors, Western Kentucky Botanical Garden, Owensboro, KY
- 2023 Student Scholar Showcase Workshop: How to Give a Talk, at Western Kentucky University (video)
- 2023 Ogden Preview Day
- 2023 Guest Speaker, Animal Superpowers: Vertebrate form and function, Potter Gray Elementary
- 2022 CITL Informal discussion of metacognition. Online forum.
- 2022 Ad-hoc Department of Biology Student Mentorship Policy Committee Member
- 2022 CITL Winter Workshop: Metacognition: Our journey through getting our students to think more deeply about their own thinking (and hopefully learning), Natalie Mountjoy & Kerrie McDaniel
- 2022 MHC panel at the Student Success Summit: Focus on High Impact Practices: Creative Uses of Honors Faculty Engagement Grants, Natalie Mountjoy (invited)
- 2021 CITL New Faculty: How to Teach Effectively at Western Kentucky University
- 2021 New Faculty Q & A Panel: Ogden College
- 2021 Gatton Academy Interview Day
- 2021 Focus on High Impact Practices: Creative Uses of Honors Faculty Engagement Grants, Student Success Summit Group Presentation, WKU [invited]
- 2020-2021 Science advisor to WKHL and the Medical Center
- 2020 CITL Faculty Development Webinar: Keeping it After Covid [invited and lead with John Conley and Aquesha Daniels]
- 2020 CITL YouTube Panel Presentation and Q&A: Assessment during COVID-19 [invited]
- 2020 Biology Student & Faculty Concerns During Online-Only Instruction (survey development & analysis)
- 2020 New Faculty Q & A Panel: Ogden College
- 2020 Search Committee: Biomedical Faculty, Biology Department
- 2020 Search Committee: Department Chair, Biology Department
- 2020 Ogden Preview Day
- 2020 WKU HerStory Recruiting Event
- 2019 Ogden College Advisory Board Presentation
- 2019 WKU Colonnade General Education Curriculum Taskforce
- 2019 Biology Clubs and Faculty Meet & Greet
- 2018 Ogden Preview Day
- 2018 Science Olympiad
- 2017-2019 Program Director and Advisor: MAE in Biology
- 2017-2019 Gatton Academy Interview Day
- 2017-2019 Gatton Academy Research Fair
- 2014-2017 Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), Owensboro Community and Technical College
- 2016 Forum guest on “Female Ph.D.s” at the Girl’s Inc. STEM Event, Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owensboro, KY
- 2013-2015 Impact 100 Member (women’s service organization) Owensboro, KY
- 2008-2013 Founder and consultant with the Budding Biotech Program, Owensboro Museum of Science and History, Owensboro, KY
- 2008-2013 Board of Directors, Owensboro Museum of Science and History, Owensboro, KY
- 2008 Guest Scientist, Girls Inc., Owensboro, KY, http://sciencegirlsinc.weebly.com
- 2005-2006 Co-President, Inaugural Biology Graduate Student Organization, Western Kentucky University
WKU HerStory Recruiting Event in 2020.
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CEBS Workshops in 2024
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Referee/reviewer of manuscripts: Conservation Biology, Case-Studies in the Environment (Pedagogical Journal), Environmental Management, Journal of Environmental Planning & Management, Ecological Economics, Human Dimensions of Wildlife
Memberships in Professional Societies: Association of American Colleges & Universities Associate, National Science Teachers Association, Society for Human Ecology and Society for Conservation Biology Public Service
Service to regional non-profit: Western Kentucky Botanical Garden, Board of Directors, Website design and maintenance and Science advisory
WKU Mission: WKU prepares students of all backgrounds to be productive, engaged, and socially responsible citizen-leaders of a global society. The University provides research, service and lifelong learning opportunities for its students, faculty, and other constituents. I work to meet my students where they are, regardless of their backgrounds. I believe science affords all of us, students included, the best means to become productive citizens and I regularly highlight that responsibility in my classes. Collaboration makes all scientist global citizens, which is reinforced in several lab activities in BIOL 121 and BIOL 123.
Memberships in Professional Societies: Association of American Colleges & Universities Associate, National Science Teachers Association, Society for Human Ecology and Society for Conservation Biology Public Service
Service to regional non-profit: Western Kentucky Botanical Garden, Board of Directors, Website design and maintenance and Science advisory
WKU Mission: WKU prepares students of all backgrounds to be productive, engaged, and socially responsible citizen-leaders of a global society. The University provides research, service and lifelong learning opportunities for its students, faculty, and other constituents. I work to meet my students where they are, regardless of their backgrounds. I believe science affords all of us, students included, the best means to become productive citizens and I regularly highlight that responsibility in my classes. Collaboration makes all scientist global citizens, which is reinforced in several lab activities in BIOL 121 and BIOL 123.
