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Jennifer O'Connor |
Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology Applied Biology and
Biomedical Engineering Professor
Jennifer O’Connor has been
selected as a 2006-2007
Scholar-in-Residence by the
American Society for
Microbiology (ASM).
With more than 42,000 members in
the United States and in other
nations, ASM is the oldest and
largest organization devoted to
a single life science in the
world. The society advances the
work of microbiologists, who
study microbes -- bacteria,
viruses, rickettsiae, mycoplasma,
fungi, algae and protozoa. ASM's
members represent 25 disciplines
of microbiological
specialization, and also include
microbiology educators.
The society's
Scholars-in-Residence Program
develops selected faculty
members' ability to conduct
research in microbiology
teaching and learning.
As an ASM Scholar-in-Residence,
O'Connor will attend the
society's Scholarship of
Teaching and Learning Summer
Workshop July 18-21 at the ASM's
office in Washington, D.C. At
the workshop, she will work with
microbiologists who are Carnegie
Scholars to develop a hypothesis
to explore student learning in
microbiology and design an
experiment, using her classes at
Rose-Hulman, to test the
hypothesis. She will present the
results at the ASM Conference
for Undergraduate Educators next
year.
A first-year member of
Rose-Hulman's faculty, O'Connor
specializes in virus replication
and the functions of viral
proteins, unusual protein
translation strategies and the
emergence of infectious disease.
She formerly taught at Post
University (Conn.), Maryville
College (Tenn.) and the
University of Tennessee, was a
visiting researcher at Yale
University, and worked as a
microbiologist at Dynamac
Corporation in Knoxville, Tenn. |
