Office Address
3-154 Molecular and Cellular Biology
515 Delaware Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States
Alexander
Kulacki
Associate Director, Nature of Life Program
Biology Teaching and Learning
I help run the Nature of Life Program, an academic support program designed to help incoming, first, and second-year students in the College of Biological Sciences. I primarily focus on the incoming and first-year student experience, starting with Nature of Life @ Itasca in the summer and BIOL 1805/1806 in the Fall and Spring.
Research statement
My Master's work centered around understanding undergraduate student engagement and motivation in quantitative biology contexts. I focused specifically on how collaborative small-group work impacted students' self-efficacy toward solving quantitative biology problems. I also investigated motivational factors that correlated to students' understanding of specific applications of quantitative biology (biostatistical analyses).
Selected publications
Examining Motivational Attitudes Toward Statistics and Their Relationship to Performance in Life Science Students; Alexander R. Kulacki & Melissa L. Aikens; Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2024.
Identifying Group Work Experiences That Increase Students’ Self-Efficacy for Quantitative Biology Tasks; Melissa L. Aikens and Alexander R. Kulacki; CBE – Life Sciences Education, 2023.
Education and background
MS | Integrative and Organismal Biology - University of New Hampshire, 2020
BA | Biology and Linguistics - Carleton College