Teaching

The Classroom

I currently teach psychology and neuroscience courses to awesome undergraduates at Acadia University including Human Neuropsychology, Movement Neuroscience, Advanced Statistical Analysis, and Introductory Psychology. I often use a flipped classroom model so students watch my lecture videos outside of class and then we practice with the material in class. Here are the videos I use in my introductory psychology class. I previously taught psychology and neuroscience courses as an Assistant Professor at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN and before that I taught introductory biology classes as an Instructor at the University of New Brunswick.

I also aim to mentor students interested in science and engineering whenever I can. I've mentored numerous undergraduate honours students, interns, coops, and directed study students, as well as high school students.

Outreach

I've had the pleasure to give talks and demonstrations related to my research to various groups around the world, including to K-12 groups in Massachusetts, South Dakota, California, New Brunswick, and even Honduras! I'm particularly excited about my recent work with the Bessie Coleman Project to develop STEM programming for K-8 students across the country, with an emphasis on creating science learning opportunities for students historically excluded from the sciences.

Curriculum

I work hard to extend what I develop in the lab into the classroom. Here are a few examples:

​Computational neuroscience teaching tools

I developed software tools that undergraduate students can use to build and simulate their own neural circuits. The graphical interface of the LabVIEW virtual instruments makes even those without programming experience able to participate in these computational neuroscience laboratory activities. This work was developed for the Neuroethology course at Northeastern University in 2014.