Office Address
3-154 Molecular and Cellular Biology
515 Delaware Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States
A. Kelly Lane
Assistant Professor
Biology Teaching and Learning
At the undergraduate level, we investigate how the current approaches to teaching biology can reinforce essentialist thinking especially in regards to race and gender. We study how students can come away with incorrect knowledge of biological concepts, which can reinforce essentialist ideologies and alienate students with marginalized identities. At the graduate level, we study how common structures in biology graduate programs impact students' mental health and exacerbate and cause inequities in mentorship quality and students' sense of belonging.
Active grant awards
IGE: Track 2: Comparing rotations and direct admissions pathways to graduate education in the sciences: an assessment of policy and practice; NSF IGE, PI Lane, $995,095, Award Number: 2429128, 2024-2029 (estimated)
Collaborative Research: A qualitative inquiry into sex/gender narratives in undergraduate biology and their impacts on transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming students; NSF EHR: ECR, PI Lane, $387,605, Award Number: 2201809, 2022-2025 (estimated)
Developing an Assessment to Address Undergraduate Biology Student Understanding of Genetics and Race; NSF IUSE: PI Lane, $299,736, Award Number: 2141979, 2022-2025 (estimated)