Faculty Research

• Dingel, M., & Punti, G. (2023). Building faculty-student relationships in higher education. Mentoring & Tutoring, 31(1), 61-82. [Accepted:2022]
• Dingel, M., & Sage, S. (2023). Habitus congruence and college student experiences in social, academic, and racial domains. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 36(5).
• Collins-Warfield, A. E., Niewoehner-Green, J. E., & Whittington, M. S. (2023). Springforward and STEP: Assessing outcomes of a two-part academic success initiative. Journal of College Orientation, Transition, and Retention, 30(1).
• Collins-Warfield, A. E. (2023). Considerations for teaching introductory philosophy to first-generation college students. AAPT Studies in Pedagogy.
• Collins-Warfield, A. E., Niewoehner-Green, J. E., Scheer, S. D., & Mills, K. J. (2023). Views of struggling students from historically excluded groups on academic success and instructor support. Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2(4).
• Collins-Warfield, A. E., Niewoehner-Green, J. E., Scheer, S. D., & Mills, K. J. (2023). Student-ready critical care pedagogy: A student-centred instructional approach for struggling students. Teaching in Higher Education.
• Collins-Warfield, A. E.. (2023, November 17). Using self-regulated learning content to support first-generation student success: Early findings from a pilot study. Center for First-Generation Student Success blog.
• Metzger, K., Dingel, M., & Brown (2023). "No matter what your story is, there is a place for you in science": Scientist Spotlight assignments positively impact students' ability to relate to scientists, especially for first-generation students and women. CBE-Life Sciences Education, 22(1).
• Taniguchi, Y., Bruenger, A., Lemer, B. & Wacek, J. (2023) Reflection for health literacies in the health science curriculum. In M. Madison (Ed.) Composing health literacies: Perspectives and resources for undergraduate writing instruction.  Routledge.
• Petzold, A.M. , & Altrichter, S. (2023). Infusing sociology into a physiology classroom: teaching the physiology of obesity through a socioscientific lens. Advances in Physiology Education, 47, 851-855.
• Petzold, A. M. , & Fry, J. L. (2023). Doubling Down on Best Practices: Reflecting on Teaching Physiology During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Advances in Physiology Education(47), 352-360.

• Dingel, M., & Ayebo, A. (2022). Examining the Mathematical Autobiographies of Undergraduate Health Science Students. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• Punti, G., & Dingel, M. (2022). A Reply to Author/s Commentary on  Punti & Dingel's (2021) Rethinking Race, Ethnicity, and the Assessment of Intercultural Competence. Education Sciences, 12(3), 180.

• Ayebo, A., & Dingel, M. (2021). Exploring the Relationship Between Mathematics Attitude, Gender, and Mathematics Achievement of Undergraduate Health Science Students. International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 13(3), 5-20. [Accepted:2021]
• 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
• Nichols, M. D. & Petzold, A. M. (2021). A Crisis of Authority in Science Communication. Cultural Studies of Science Education.
• 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.
• Punti, G., & Dingel, M. (2021). Rethinking Race, Ethnicity, and the Assessment of Intercultural Competence in Higher Education. Education Sciences, 11(110).

• Dingel, M. J., & Sage, S. K. (2020). Undergraduate Students’ Perceptions of Diversity over Time. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 13(2), 120-132.
• 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.
• Olson^*, H. L., Turin*, D. R., & Petzold, A. M. (2020). Lighting up the NMJ: Developing an LED-based model of the Neuromuscular Junction for the undergraduate classroom. Advances in Physiology Education, 44(3), 482-487.
• Petzold, A. M. (2020). Letter to the Editor: Resources and recommendations for a quick transition to online instruction in physiology. Advances in Physiology Education, 44(2), 217-- 219.

• Dingel, M. J., Ostergren, J., & McCormick, J. (2019). "Why did I get that part of you?" Understanding addiction genetics through family history. Public Understanding of Science, 28(1), 53-67.
• Metzger, K. J., & Yang Yowler, J. (2019). Teaching mitosis and meiosis: Comparative effectiveness of two modeling approaches. American Biology Teacher. 81(2), 94-105.
• 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

• 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.
• 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.
• Hogenson TL, Olson RL, & Fernandez-Zapico M. Hedgehog Signaling Plays a Dual Role in Pancreatic Carcinogenesis. Pancreatic Cancer, (2nd Ed.) New York: Springer.
• 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.
• 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
• 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)
• 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
• Nichols, Marcia D. (2018) Marginalia. Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 16(4), pp. 702-707. Project MUSE.
• Nichols, M.D. & Petzold, A.M. (2018) Decrowning the classroom king: Anatomy and physiology and the dangers of the contact zone.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Prat-Resina,X. (2018) Using data-driven activities with ChemEd X Data to practice structure-property relationships in General Chemistry. Chemistry Teacher International.
• 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
• 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

• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Marks DL, Olson RL, & Fernandez-Zapico ME. (2016) Epigenetic control of the tumor microenvironment. Epigenomics. 8 (12):1671-1687
• Nichols, M. (2016). Listening between the lines: Patient resistance in the case histories of William Smellie. Remedia.
• 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.
• 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.
• Prat-Resina, X. (2016) Models360 and ChemEd X Data: Web platforms to navigate, represent and interpret chemical data. Educació Química EduQ. 22, 22-30.
• 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.
• Wright, J. (2016). Restricting mobile device use in introductory philosophy classrooms. Teaching Philosophy. 39(3), 307-327. DOI: 10.5840/teachphil20168552

• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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., 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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
• 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
• 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.

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

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

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

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.

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