Faculty Research

Osiecki, K., Barnett, J., & Mejia, A. (2022). Creating an Integrated Undergraduate Public Health Curricula: Inspiring the Next Generation to Solve Complex Public Health Issues. Frontiers in Public Health, 10. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2022.864891

Mejia, A. & Taniguchi, Y. Art and Heart to Counter the One-hour-Zoom-diversity Event: Counterspaces as a Response to Diversity Regimes in Academia. Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, 9(2).

Petzold, A. M., & Wollschlager, J. (2021). Essay Roulette: Reducing Students' Exam Anxiety and Increasing Self-Accountability. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 32(2),127-149. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1310595

Dingel, M., Nichols, M., Mejia, A., & Osiecki, K. (2021). Service, Self-care, and Sacrifice: A Qualitative Exploration of the Pandemic University as a Greedy Institution. ADVANCE Journal, 2(3).  doi: 10.5399/osu/ADVJRNL.2.3.2

Metzger, K. & Langley, D. (2020) The Room Itself is Not Enough: Student Engagement in Active Learning Classrooms. College Teaching,  DOI: 10.1080/87567555.2020.1768357.

Wright, J. (2019) “The truth, but not yet: Avoiding naïve skepticism via explicit communication of metadisciplinary aims.” Teaching in Higher Education. 24(3):361-377 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13562517.2018.1544552

Metzger, K. J., & Yang Yowler, J. (2019). Teaching mitosis and meiosis: Comparative effectiveness of two modeling approaches. American Biology Teacher. 81(2), 94-105.

Nichols, M.D. & Petzold, A.M. (2018) Decrowning the classroom king: Anatomy and physiology and the dangers of the contact zone. Double Helix. 6

Dame,L., Aryal,B., Huq,A., & Prat-Resina, X. (2018) An interdisciplinary approach to connecting quantitative and science curricula and pedagogy in an undergraduate program. PRIMUS. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511970.2018.1532935

Prat-Resina,X. (2018) Using data-driven activities with ChemEd X Data to practice structure-property relationships in General Chemistry. Chemistry Teacher International. https://doi.org/10.1515/cti-2018-0010

Petzold, A. M., & Dunbar, R. L. (2018). The art of talking about science: beginning to teach physiology students how to communicate with nonscientists. Advances in Physiology Education. 42(2), 225–231. https://doi.org/10.1152/advan.00053.2017

Huq, A., Hulsizer, H., and Wei, W., (2018) Early Introduction Of Hypothesis Testing In Introductory Statistics: A Pilot Study, The Online Journal of New Horizons in Education. Vol 8-3.

Nichols, M., Aryal, B., & Huq, A., (2018) A qualitative case study exploring student comfort with ambiguity in physics, math, and literature, Online Journal of New Horizons in Education. 8(1).

Wright, J. (2018) In defense of the progressive stack: A strategy for prioritizing marginalized voices during in-class discussion. Teaching Philosophy. 41(4): 407-428

Smith, B., Metzger, K.J., & Soneral, P. (2018) Research and teaching: Investigation introductory  nonmajor biology students' self-regulated learning strategies through the implementation of a reflective-routine. Journal of College Science Teaching. 048(06) DOI: 10.2505/4/jcst19_048_06_66

Metzger, K. J, Montplaisir, D., & Haines, D. et al. (2018) Investigating undergraduate health sciences students’ acceptance of evolution using MATE and GAENE. Evolution: Education and Outreach. 11(10) https://doi.org/10.1186/s12052-018-0084-8

Metzger, K. J. Smith, B. A., Brown, E. & Soneral, P. A. G. (2018). SMASH: A diagnostic tool to monitor student metacognition, affect, and study habits in an undergraduate science course. Journal of College Science Teaching. 47(3):91-99

Dunbar, R. L., Dingel, M. J., Dame, L. F., Winchip, J., & Petzold, A. M. (2018). Student social self-efficacy, leadership status, and academic performance in collaborative learning environments. Studies in Higher Education. 43(.9), 1507–1523. https://doi-org.ezp3.lib.umn.edu/10.1080/03075079.2016.1265496

Terrell, C.R. & Listenberger, L.L. (2017) Using molecular visualization to explore protein structure and function and enhance student facility with computational tools. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education. 45 (4): 318-328. https://doi.org/10.1002/bmb.21040

Petzold, A. M., Nichols, M. D., & Dunbar, R. L. (2016). Leveraging Creative Writing as a Tool for the Review of Foundational Physiological Content. HAPS Educator. 20(4), 76–84. https://doi.org/10.21692/haps.2016.036

Dingel, M. J., & Sage, S. (2016) Dimensions of difference, sense of belonging, and fitting in: Tensions around developing peer groups, student body diversity, and academic culture. Learning Communities Journal. 8(1):131-156.

Peterson, M. T., Gruhlke, R. C., Sims, R. C., Wright-Peterson, V. M., Karon, B. S., Tynsky, T. A., & ... Lessard, M. S. (2016). Blended learning: Transformation of phlebotomy education at Mayo Clinic. Clinical Laboratory Science. 29(4), 219-226.

Huq, A., Nichols, M.D., & Aryal, B. (2016) Building blocks: Threshold concepts and interdisciplinary structures of learning. In Practice and Evidence of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. pp 135-54. Rotterdam: Sense Publishing.

Wright, J. (2016). Restricting mobile device use in introductory philosophy classrooms. Teaching Philosophy. 39(3), 307-327. DOI: 10.5840/teachphil20168552

Metzger, K.J. (2015). Collaborative teaching practices in undergraduate active learning classrooms: A report of faculty team teaching models and student reflections from two biology courses. Bioscene. 40(1): 3-9

Wright-Peterson, V. (2014). Making the invisible visible: Uncovering the hidden curriculum in allied health education. In Bender, C., Hafferty, F.W., &O'Donnell, J. (Eds.) The Hidden Curriculum in Health Professions Education, Dartmouth College Press, Hanover, NH.

Dingel, M & Wei, W. (2014). Influences on peer evaluation: An exploration of leadership, demographics, and course performance. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education.39(6): 729-742. DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2013.867477

Dunbar, R. L., Dingel, M. & Prat-Resina, X. (2014). Connecting analytics and curriculum design: The process and outcome of building a tool to browse data relevant to course designers.  Journal of Learning Analytics. 1(3):220-240.

Eklund,B. & Prat-Resina, X. (2014). ChemEd X data: Exposing students to open scientific data for higher-order thinking and self-regulated learning. Journal of Chemical Education.91(9),3 1501-1504.

Eklund, B., Inhofer, J.W., Greenwood, J.D., Mohamed, O., Larsen, P.L., & Prat-Resina, X.(2014). Students designing online games for active learning sessions in chemistry courses. Proceedings of EDULEARN14  ISBN: 978-84-617-0557-3.

Metzger, K.J. (2014). Homologous chromosomes? Exploring human sex chromosomes, sex determination and sex reversal using bioinformatics approaches. CourseSource. https://doi.org/10.24918/cs.2014.5

Dingel, M; Wei, W., & Huq, A. (2013). Cooperative learning and peer evaluation: The effect of free riders on team performance and the relationship between course performance and peer evaluation.  Journal of Scholarship on Teaching and Learning. 13(1):45-56.

Metzger, K.J.  (2013). Starting right: Using “Biophilia,” Organism Cards, and key themes in biology to introduce student-centered active learning strategies at the beginning of a course. American Biology Teacher. 75(4):285-289 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/abt.2013.75.4.11

Muthyala, R.S. & Wei, W. (2013). Does space matter? Impact of classroom space on student learning in an organic-first curriculum. Journal of Chemical Education. 90 (1) 45-50.

Dunbar, R.L. & Nichols, M.D. (2012). Fostering empathy in undergraduate health science majors through the reconciliation of objectivity and subjectivity : An integrated approach. Anatomical Sciences Education. 5(5): 301–308. Epub 2012 May 4.

Hsu, L., Heller, K., Xu, Q. & Aryal, B. (2012). Web-based problem-solving coaches for physics students. In  A.H.Duin, E. Nater, & F. Anklesaria (Eds.) Cultivating Change in the Academy: 50+ Stories from the Digital Frontlines at the University of Minnesota in 2012. University of Minnesota: University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy, http://purl.umn.edu/125273.

Metzger, K.J. (2011). Helping students conceptualize species divergence events using the online tool “TimeTree: The Timescale of Life." American Biology Teacher. 73(2):106-108. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/abt.2011.73.2.9

Dunbar, R.L. (2010). Integrative courses: Anatomy and beyond. Anatomical Sciences Education. 3(2):73-6.

Osiecki, K., Barnett, J., Mejia, A., Burley, T., Nyhus, K., & Pickens, K. (2022). Studying hard while hungry and broke: Striving for academic well-being while navigating food insecurity. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 11(4), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2022.114.011

Kostko, A. (2019). Inductive Risks and Psychiatric Classification. The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry, MA: MIT Press.

Olson R.L.O., Forner J.V., Navarro P., Fernandez-Zapcio M.E., & Elamir A.M. (2018) Role of tumor-stromal interactions in Pancreatic Cancer invasion and metastases. Pancreatic Cancer, (2nd Ed.). (pp. 539-552). New York: Springer.

Hogenson TL, Olson RL, & Fernandez-Zapico M. Hedgehog Signaling Plays a Dual Role in Pancreatic Carcinogenesis. Pancreatic Cancer, (2nd Ed.) New York: Springer.

Marks D.L., Olson R.L.O., Urrutia R., Billadeau D.D., Roy N., Calin G.A., Fabbri M., Koutsioumpa M., Lliopoulos D., Ordog T., Huebert R., Sarmento O., Bamidele A.O., Faubion W., Lomberk G.L., Siveke J., Ahuja N., Iovanna J., Hlady R.A., Robertson K., Kisiel J., Pin C.L., & Fernandez-Zapico M.E. (2018) Epigenetics of Gastrointestinal Diseases, notes from a workshop. Epigenetics. Jul: 13(4): 449-457

J. Bickle, & Kostko, A. (2018). Connectionist Experiments in Neurobiology. Synthese. 195 (12), 5271-5295.

Lemer, B. (2018). Battle Buddy. The Southeast Review. 36.2: 86-99.

Lemer, B. (2018). Overboots. Tahoma Literary Review. 12: 137-140.

Lemer, B. (2018). Sparkler. Midwestern Gothic. Winter 2018: 191-194.

Prat-Resina, X. (2018). Using data-driven activities with ChemEd X Data to practice structure-property relationships in General Chemistry. Chemistry Teacher International,.doi:10.1515/cti-2018-0010

Nichols, Marcia D. (2018) Marginalia. Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 16(4), pp. 702-707. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/eam.2018.0038

Kostko, A., & Bickle, J. (2017). Personalized Psychiatry and Scientific Causal Explanations: Two Accounts. Extraordinary Science: Responding to the Current Crisis in Psychiatric Research. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Dingel, M.J., Ostergren, J., Heaney, K., McCormick, J., &  Koenig, B.A. (2017) “’I don't have to know why it snows, I just have to shovel it!’: Addiction recovery, genetic frameworks, and biological citizenship.” BioSocieties. 12(4):568-587. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-017-0045-4

Carr R.M., Enriquez-Hesles E., Jatoi A., Doles J., Olson R.L.O., & Fernandez-Zapico M.E. (2017) Epigenetics of cancer-associated muscle catabolism. Epigenomics. Sep; 9(10): 1259-1265

Ala’Aldeen A., Marks D.L., Olson R.L.O., & Fernandez-Zapico M.E. Glioma-associated oncogene 1, Gli1. (2017) Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules. New York: Springer.

Prat-Resina, X. (2016) Models360 and ChemEd X Data: Web platforms to navigate, represent and interpret chemical data. Educació Química EduQ. 22, 22-30.

Kostko, A. (2016). Psychological Disorders without Brain Disorders. American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience. 7 (4), 240-242

Marks DL, Olson RL, & Fernandez-Zapico ME. (2016) Epigenetic control of the tumor microenvironment. Epigenomics. 8 (12):1671-1687

Iguchi E, Safgren SL, Marks DL, Olson RL, & Fernandez-Zapico ME. (2016) Pancreatic Cancer, A mis-interpreter of the epigenetic language. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine. 89(4): 575-590

Nichols, M. (2016). Listening between the lines: Patient resistance in the case histories of William Smellie. Remedia.

Schroeder, A. Metzger, K.J., Miller, A., & Rhen, T. (2016). Novel candidate gene for temperature-dependent sex determination in the common snapping turtle. Genetics.203(1):557-571; DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.182840A

Wright-Peterson, V. (2016). The women of Mayo Clinic: The founding generation.  Minnesota Historical Society Press.

Nichols, M.D., Huq, A., Aryal, B. & Prat-Resina, X. (2015). Conversations on ethnicity, adaptation and belonging: Auto-ethnography at the base of the ivory tower. In C.B. Hutchinson & K.O. Akurang-Parry (Eds.) Voices of immigrant professors: Historical and contemporary challenges & triumphs, pp 62-75. New York: Routledge

Kostko, A. (2015). Behaviorism and eliminativism. The Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Kostko, A. (2015). Instrumentalism and intervening variables. The Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Ostergren, J.E., Dingel, M.J., McCormick, J.B., & Koenig, B.A. (2015). Unwarranted optimism in media portrayals of genetic research on addiction overshadows critical ethical and social concerns. Journal of Health Communication. 20(5):555-565. DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2014.999895.

Dingel, M.J., Ostergren, J.E., McCormick, J.B., Hammer,R., & B Koenig, B.A. (2015). The media and behavioral genetics: Alternatives coexisting with addiction genetics Science, Technology & Human Values. 40(4):459-486. DOI: 10.1177/0162243914558491.

Petzold, A.M., Wollschlager, J., & Dunbar, R.L. (2015) Unlucky Chucky: The effects of curare, botulinum toxin and sarin on the enuromuscular junction. National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science.

Nichols, M.D. (2015). Poe’s ‘Some words with a mummy’ and blackface anatomy, Poe Studies. Vol. 48 2-16

Nichols, M.D. (2015). The Aristotle texts, sex, and the American woman. In Stephenson, R., & Wagner, D. (eds.) Reproduction in the Eighteenth Century. pp 417-37. Toronto UP.

Ostergren, J.E., Hammer, R., Dingel, M.J., Koenig, B.A., & McCormick, J.B. (2014). Challenges in translational research: The views of addiction scientists. PLoS ONE. 9(4): e93482. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0093482

Olson, R.L.O., Farris, Roxanne E., Barr, Norman B., & Cognato, Anthony I. (2014). Molecular identification of Trogoderma granarium (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) using the 16s gene Journal of Pest Science. 87(4), 701.

Barnett, J., Muilenburg, J., Johnson, C., & Miracle, J. (2013). “It’s not to be discussed”: Safety, acceptance, and professional development for LGBTQ faculty at a large Southeastern university.  The Georgia Journal of College Student Affairs.

Hammer, R., Dingel, M.J., Ostergren, J., Partridge, B., McCormick, J., & Koenig, B.A. (2013). Addiction: Current criticism of the brain disease paradigm. American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience. 4(3):27-32.

Kostko, A. (2013) Instrumentalism and intervening variables. In Cautin,R., Lilienfield, S. (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

Kostko, A. (2013) Behaviorism and eliminativism. In Cautin, R., Lilienfield, S. (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

Porel, M, Ramalingam, V., Domaradzki, M.E., Young, V.G. Jr., Ramamurthy, V., & Muthyala, R.S. (2013).  Chloride sensing via suppression of excited state intramolecular proton transfer in squaramides.  Chemical Communications. 49(16) 1633-1635.

Nichols, M.D. (2013). Venus dissected: The visual blazon of mid-18th century medical atlases.  In Zigarovich, J. (ed.) Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature. Rutgers UP.

Olson, R.O., Parsons G.L., & Cognato A.I., (2013) Commercial sex-pheromone lures facilitate collection of skin and carpet beetles (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) in natural and urban environments. Coleopterist Bulletin. 63: 370-6

Jardeleza, S., Cognato,A., Gottfried, M., Kimbirauskas,R., Libarkin, J., Olson, R.O., Ording, G., Owen, J., Rasmussen, P., Stoltzfus, J., & Thomas, S. (2013). The value of community building: One center's story of how the AAC&U VALUE rubrics provided common ground. Liberal Education.  Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) Press; 99(3).

Punti, G. & King, K. (2013). A perfect storm? Undocumented Latino youth, multi-level marketing businesses, and their targeted language policies. In V. Ramanathan (Ed.), Language Policy and Citizenship. (pp. 92-115). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Taniguchi, Y. (2013).  A Child Hibakusha-Hiroshima 1945. Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

Terrell, C.R., Burks, E.A., Whitman, C. P., & Hoffman, D. W. Structural and kinetic characterization of two 4-Oxalocrotonate Tautomerases inMethylibium petroleiphilum strain PM1. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 2013, 537: 113-124

Wollschlager, J., N. Folino-Rorem, & M. Daly. (2013). Nematocysts of the invasive hydroid cordylophora caspia (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). Biological Bulletin. 224: 99-109.

Proctor, C., Barnett, J., & Muilenburg, J. (2012). Investigating race, gender and access to cigarettes in an adolescent population. American Journal of Health Behavior.  doi: 10.5993/AJHB.36.4.8.

Hammer, R.R., Dingel, M.J., Ostergren, J.E., Nowakowski, K.E., & Koenig, B.A. (2012). The experience of addiction as told by the addicted: Incorporating biological understandings into self-story. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. 36(4):712-734.

Dingel, M.J., Hicks, A., Robinson, M., & Koenig, B.A. (2012). Integrating genetic studies of nicotine addiction into public health practice: Stakeholder perspectives on challenges, barriers, opportunities. Public Health Genomics. 15(1):46-55.

Nichols, M.D. (2012).  Chapter 7: A colonial man of science: Imperial fantasy in Merryland.  In Hayden, J.A. (ed.) Expanding Worlds: Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, pp 143-160.  Ashgate Publishing

Nichols, M.D. (2012). George Spratt’s obstetric tables.  In Sappol, M. (ed.) Hidden Treasures: The National Library of Medicine, pp 50-51.National Library of Medicine and Blast Books.

Schneider, H., Klee, E.W., Clark, K.J., Petzold, A.M., Mock, V.L., Abarr, J.M., Behrens, J.L., Edelen, R.E., Edwards, B.A., Hobgood, J.S., Pogue, M.E., Singh, N.K. & Ekker, S.C. (2012). Zebrafish drug development: A behavioral assay system for probing nicotine function in larval research. Neuromethods.  66:53-70.

Clark, K.J., Argue, D.P., Petzold, A.M. & Ekker, S.C. (2012). zfishbook: connecting you to a world of zebrafish revertible mutants. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(Database issue):D907-11. Epub 2011 Nov 8

King, K., & Punti, G. (2012). On the margins: Undocumented students’ narrated experiences of (il)legality. Linguistics and Education. 23(3), 235-249

Lemer, B. (2011). The last deployment: How a gay, hammer-swinging twentysomething survived a year in Iraq. University of Wisconsin Press.

Dingel, M.J., Karkazis,K., & Koenig, B.A. (2011). Framing nicotine addiction as a ‘disease of the brain’: Social and ethical consequences. Social Science Quarterly. 92(5): 1363-1388.

Metzger, K.J., Klaper, R., & Thomas, M.A. (2011). Implications of informatics approaches in ecological research. Ecological Informatics. 6(1): 4-12. doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2010.11.003.

Clark, K.J., Balciunas, D., Pogoda, H.M., Ding, Y., Westcot, S.E., Bedell, V.M., Greenwood, T.M., Urban, M.D., Skuster, K.J., Petzold, A.M., Ni, J., Nielsen, A.L., Patowary, A., Scaria, V., Sivasubbu, S., Xu, X., Hammerschmidt, M. & Ekker, S.C. (2011). In vivo protein trapping produces a functional expression codex of the vertebrate proteome. Nature Methods.  Jun;8(6):506-15. Epub 2011 May 8.

Jaña, G., Jimenez, V., Villà-Freixa, J., Prat-Resina, X., Delgado, E., & Alderete, J. (2011). QM/MM study on the last two steps of the catalytic cycle of acetohydroxyacid synthase. Computational and Theoretical Chemistry. 966 (1-3), 159-166.

Gundle, K., Dingel, M.J., & Koenig, B.A. (2010). ’To prove this is the industry’s best hope’: Big Tobacco’s support of research on the genetics of nicotine addiction. Addiction. 105(6):974-983.

Nguyen, S., Miller, D.R., & Dingel, M.J. (2010). Traditional medicine use in a Vietnamese-American community. The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 44(4):769-777.

Dingel, M.J. and Sprague, J. (2010). Research and reporting on the development of sex in fetuses: Gendered from the start. Public Understanding of Science. 19(2):181-196.

Metzger, K.J. & Thomas, M. (2010). Evidence of positive selection at codon sites localized in extracellular domains of mammalian CC motif chemokine receptor proteins. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10(1):139. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/139

Rhen T., Metzger K., Schroeder A., Woodward R. (2007). Expression of putative sex-determining genes during the thermosensitive period of gonad development in the snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina. Sexual Development. 1(4):255-70. doi: 10.1159/000104775; http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/104775

Nichols, M.D.  (2008). Cicero’s Pro Cluentio and the ‘mazy’ rhetorical strategies of Wieland. Law and Literature. 20(1), 459-76.

Kostko, A., & Bickle, J. (2007). Social behaviors and brain interventions: New strategies for reductionists. A Cartography of the Mind: Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection (1sted., vol. 4, pp. 309-318). Dordrecht: Springer.

Huq, A., (2007). Compositions of graphs revisited, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. 14, N15. http://www.combinatorics.org/Volume_14/Abstracts/v14i1n15.html

Nichols, M.D. (2004). Bibliography of Jungian and Post-Jungian literary criticism, 1980-2000. In Baumlin, J., Baumlin, T.F., & Jenson, G. (eds.) Post-Jungian Literary Criticism: New Essays in Theory and Practise, pp 263-95. State University of New York Press