Bio:

Erin Dolan is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Georgia Athletic Association Professor of Innovative Science Education at the University of Georgia. As a graduate student in Neuroscience at University of California at San Francisco, she volunteered extensively in K-12 schools, which prompted her to pursue a career in biology education. She teaches introductory biology and biochemistry courses for life science majors. With support from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, her research group, the SPREE Lab (Social Psychology of Research Experiences and Education), works to delineate the features of undergraduate and graduate research that influence students’ career decisions, including the influence of research mentorship. She served on the National Academies consensus committee on mentoring in STEMM. She co-authored a guidebook on designing and teaching course-based undergraduate research experiences as a more equitable and inclusive approach to undergraduate research. She also served for ten years as Editor-in-Chief of the biology education journal, CBE – Life Sciences Education.