Maura C. Flannery
Professor of Biology and Director,
Center for Teaching and Learning
St. John's University, NY
Bent 268
8000 Utopia Parkway
Jamaica, NY 11439
718-990-1860
flannerm@stjohns.edu
Website at academia.edu
Introduction
I have been a faculty member at St. John’s University in New York for 39 years. I teach introductory science to nonmajors and I love it. Finding ways to make biology more interesting led me to an interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
My research is on the visual aspects of biology and on the aesthetics of science. I am particularly interested in herbaria, collections of pressed plants and other plant specimens. They have a rich history dating back to the Renaissance, and including collections made by Jean Jacques Rousseau, Darwin, Lewis and Clark, and Paul Klee. These collections are particularly valuable now because they can be used to document environmental changes including the effects of global warming and pollution. Finally, herbaria are on the cutting edge technologically, both because they can serve as sources for plant DNA and because collections are being digitized so they are accessible to future generations all over the world. If you want to find out more, please visit my Herbaria webpage.
My Projects
At the moment, one of the my chief objectives is to use the Web more effectively in communicating information about my work (hence this website), about the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), and about the course I teach, Scientific Inquiry. I find that the tool I've used to create this Website, Campus Guides, has been useful for all these aims. If you would like to see the progress I've made so far please visit the public version of my class site (password: si) as well as the CTL Forum.
Education
B.S. in biology,
Marymount Manhattan College
M.S. in biology,
Boston College
Ph.D. in science education,
New York University
Other Interests
Sites that relate to some of my interests are:
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