Dr. Sara Brownell
President's Professor
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ, United States
Biography
Sara Brownell is a biology education researcher whose research focuses on making undergraduate science learning environments more inclusive. Trained as a Ph.D. neuroscientist, she transitioned to discipline-based education research and is an expert on course-based undergraduate research experiences and making undergraduate science learning experiences, specifically active learning courses and undergraduate research experiences, more inclusive. Her research focuses on students with concealable stigmatized identities such as religious students, LGBTQ+ students, and students with disabilities, as well as the impact on students of instructors revealing these identities in the context of the classroom. Her research in biology education has been internationally recognized and featured in Science Magazine, as well as in numerous news outlets, including the NY Times, CNN, and Scientific American.
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Major Prizes
Science & Technology Interests
Biology, Evolution, Medicine & Health
Website
Publications
“Accepting Evolution Means You Can’t Believe in God”: Atheistic Perceptions of Evolution among College Biology Students
CBE Life Sciences Education 26 May 2020
https://www.lifescied.org/doi/full/10.1187/cbe.19-05-0106
