Reduce barriers without reducing rigor
Use scheduling, modality, sequencing, and course availability to help students make consistent progress toward their degrees.
Curriculum & program innovation
Building programs that open possibilities.
I love the creative work of curriculum design: imagining what students could learn and become, then bringing people, courses, resources, and opportunities together to make it possible.
1.7 yearsaverage time to complete the online non-thesis MS
>50%reduction in student debt in the online MS program
3 coursesin a new clinical-skills microcredential series
8 weeksaccelerated format for selected online core courses
A portfolio approach
Programs should create coherent routes, not isolated choices.
My curriculum work begins with a broad question: what should students be able to know, do, and achieve when they leave us? From there, I connect learning outcomes, course sequences, delivery formats, experiential opportunities, and career preparation into pathways students can understand and complete.
Connect curriculum to what comes next
Align programs with graduate education, health professions, research, and emerging biological industries while preserving a strong scientific foundation.
Design for implementation
Build programs that account for faculty expertise, instructional cost, facilities, enrollment demand, assessment, and long-term capacity.
Selected portfolio
Innovation across the student journey.
These initiatives serve different students, but share a common purpose: making their options clearer, their learning more meaningful, and their next steps more attainable.
Online MS in Biology
Helped establish the College of Science's first fully online master's degree, creating a more flexible route for working professionals and geographically dispersed students.
Pre-Clinical Biology track
Developed a clearer undergraduate roadmap for students preparing for medicine, dentistry, physician assistant programs, optometry, and related health professions.
Clinical simulation and skills microcredential
Advanced a three-course sequence providing practical experience with vital signs, EKGs, patient interaction, laboratory testing, and clinical simulation.
Biology Scholars Program
Launched a cohort experience for high-achieving first-year students that combines a small gateway course, enhanced mentoring, research connections, and priority opportunities.
MS in Industrial Biology
Developing an industry-aligned graduate program integrating biotechnology, biomanufacturing, food science, project management, laboratory training, and externships.
Selected core-course transformation
Moved selected non-majors courses online in accelerated formats to expand access, improve use of teaching space, and support student progression.
Course-embedded certificates
Integrated additional skill credentials into existing courses so students can document applied learning without increasing the credit burden of the degree.
Undergraduate and graduate capstones
Connected degree learning to students' next steps through the BIOL 4101 undergraduate career-readiness capstone and BIOL 5392 MS Non-Thesis Capstone.
What keeps the work meaningful
Curriculum is where institutional strategy becomes a student's lived experience.
I enjoy the puzzle of bringing ambitious ideas into alignment with academic standards, faculty strengths, student needs, and practical constraints. The reward is seeing a new possibility become a program students can actually enter, navigate, and use.
From idea to program
Curriculum development is organizational change.
Identify the need
Use enrollment patterns, student outcomes, workforce needs, and faculty insight to define the opportunity.
Build the academic case
Clarify learning outcomes, program identity, student value, and alignment with institutional priorities.
Align the system
Coordinate curriculum, staffing, resources, approvals, advising, scheduling, and implementation.
Measure and improve
Examine participation, progression, outcomes, cost, and student experience after launch.