Holyoke Community College
About HCC
Robert McMasters Degree and from where it was received:
BA - Clark University
MST - Boston College
MA - Smith College
PhD - UMass Amherst

Courses you teach:
Bio 110 General Botany
Bio 115 Plant Genetics and Evolution
Bio 195 and 295 Independent Study in Biology
(I also taught Bio 103-104 for many years as an adjunct)

Accomplishments (personal or professional):

Published papers in a number of peer-reviewed professional journals as
well as in several general publications and newspapers
Elected to Sigma Xi, national research society, in 1993.

Favorite thing about teaching:

Student questions; especially questions that haven't occurred to me before and that I can't answer!

Teaching philosophy:

Provide lots of content, plenty of hands-on experiences; look for new ways to
approach topics, capture students imagination; try to avoid "ruts"

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