Catherine Kirkpatrick

My teaching focuses on creating research opportunities for students in the context of a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) laboratory course. My research interests relate to best practices and strategies for providing these research opportunities to a large number of students. I want to know what factors contribute most to an engaging research experience where students develop a variety of scientific skills in a challenging yet supportive environment. I am also interested in the impacts of course-based research experiences on the students themselves.

Degrees earned

• PhD in Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994: Analysis of the Yeast Transcriptional Regulator LEU3; Paul Schimmel, advisor
• BSc in Biochemistry, University of Toronto, 1987