Teaching and Mentoring

Undergraduate Courses
Brown University, Providence, RI USA

Biological Design: Structural Architecture of Organisms (co-instructor, 2013)
Undergraduate course introducing first-year, non-major, students to the principles of biomechanics and bio-inspired design.

• Worked with faculty instructor to jointly design syllabus.
• Designed new, interdisciplinary assignments and projects for students.
  
• Created and presented lectures.

Comparative Biology of the Vertebrates (graduate teaching assistant, 2010)
Undergraduate course for upper-level biology majors,  presenting vertebrate evolution and comparative anatomy through lectures and dissection-based laboratories.

• Led laboratory sessions and presented prosections, using skeletal and preserved speciments.
• Contributed to creating lectures and exams, and leading review sessions.
  

Medical School Course
Brown University, Providence, RI USA

Human Gross Anatomy (graduate teaching assistant, 2010-1013)
Course for first-year medical students combining lectures and dissection-based cadaver laboratories

• Wrote and delivered lectures and presented workshops on prosection materials.
  
• Worked with teaching team to guide students through labs and design course materials.
  

Undergraduate Mentoring
Brown University, Providence, RI USA

I co-advised the following undergraduate research and thesis projects:

• "Kinematics of skeletal linkages during mouth expansion in fish" (2014-2015, research project for Biology concentration)
• "Morphology and kinematics of lateral mouth expansion during fish suction feeding" (2012-2013, senior thesis for Marine Biology and Animation concentration)
• "Measuring flow velocity during suction feeding with radio-opaque markers" (2011, research project for Physics concentration)