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Carolyn Graham, Postdoctoral Researcher, University at Buffalo
Suegene Noh, Associate Professor, Colby College
Yaamini R. Venkataraman, Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University

All the best,
Nancy Chen, Assistant Professor, University of Rochester (starting 2026: UCLA)
Robin Costello, Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo
Kiyoko Gotanda, Assistant Professor, Brock University

To help spread the word, please forward this message to any instructors of introductory biology or evolution classes in your biology department. Thank you for helping with our efforts to improve evolutionary biology education in undergraduate classrooms, and please reach out with any questions.

Priority will be given to instructors who express interest by December 12th, but we will consider other applications on a rolling basis. We will meet with all instructors teaching these modules in early January 2026.

If you are interested in participating as an instructor in this study, please fill out the survey below to express your interest by December 12th, 2025:
sunybuffalo.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Selected instructors will receive $250 compensation for full participation. For more information about this study, please read the attached information letter.

If interested in participating in this study, we will ask you to use approximately 1 week of your course (2-3 classes) to implement our module on adaptation and have students fill out a survey that characterizes their experiences with the module before&after interacting w/ provided course material.

To test the efficacy of this module, we have designed an experiment that manipulates the module to feature either traditional examples of adaptation (e.g., bird beaks) or examples that ask students to consider how adaptationist thinking may be misapplied to humans during the 2nd part of instruction.

We are explicitly looking for instructors of biology and evolution courses at US and Canadian colleges and universities to pilot our module on adaptation in spring 2026. qubeshub.org/publications...

Our interdisciplinary collaboration, known as the Resources for Inclusive Evolution Education (RIE2) group, has generated teaching modules that take a new approach to presenting several complex concepts in evolutionary biology. qubeshub.org/community/gr...

misapplications of evolutionary concepts to human society by students.

We are a group of evolutionary biologists and biology education researchers conducting a collaborative research project to understand the impacts of inclusive evolutionary biology educational materials on biology undergraduates, with the hope that these materials enhance awareness of the...

This collaboration actually started at the WOC in EEB conference in 2023, and we're excited for this next chapter!