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Contact Information

• Email: borgeson@unr.edu
• Phone: (775) 784-8055
• Fax: (775) 784-1302
• Office: Max Fleischmann Agriculture Building 209
• Mail Stop: 0314

Degrees

• B.A., University of California (1978)
• Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz (1985)
• Postdoctoral institute: University of Nevada, Reno 1985-1990

Research Interests:

I am currently not involved with research in a laboratory. However, I am very interested in ongoing research regarding innovations in pedagogy. I have been involved in the Biology Scholars Program, sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology. I was trained in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and began implementing research designed at examining the success of using interrupted case studies in a large lecture format. I also am assessing the use of technology in the classroom--personal response devices ("clickers"), online adaptive quizzes and, in the future, online narrated powerpoint lectures for introductory/foundational material in my courses.