Professional Preparation
PHD - Biology
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas - 2012
Research Areas
Tiny Earth Partner Instructor Training Workshop, January 6-10 2025
Tiny Earth is a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE), an international network, and an antibiotic discovery pipeline.Tiny Earth Partner Instructors (TEPIs) teach students to develop and test hypotheses, collect soil, isolate bacteria, screen for antibiotic activity, and log data in the Tiny Earth Discovery Database.
Awards
Certificate for encouragement and assistance to students with disabilities - Service for Students with Disabilities (SSD), Binghamton University [2024]
Appointments
Vice President for Academics
UUP Binghamton [2024–2025]
United University Professions, UUP, is the nation’s largest higher education union, representing the faculty and professional staff of the SUNY system.
Projects
2024/11–2024/11 The Let Us Dream Conference provides a platform for sharing, learning, and celebrating people and service groups dedicated to performing selfless acts for the benefit and betterment of society. The conference invites individuals with bigger hearts and deeper thoughts to discuss and reflect upon their experiences with community improvement successes and challenges. The panelist included lead researchers and faculty, student organizations B-SMART and BMINDS, Binghamton University, Executive Director and Certified Recovery Peer Advocate (CRPA) staff at Addiction Center of Broome County.
Presentations
Lee, H. E., Grant, T. W., Pullen, R. L., Gaston, J., Wang, Z., & Chadha, T. (2014). Effect of Native American medicinal plant extracts on antibiotic resistant pathogens. Ninety-first annual meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science, Auburn
Undergraduate students, Troy University, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences
Chadha, T., San Francisco, M., & Fralick, J.A. (2011, May). TolC- two molecular weight species in Escherichia coli. Poster session presented at the 111th general meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, New Orleans.
Activities
Leadership Conference, UUP, June 2024
United University Professions, UUP, is the nation’s largest higher education union, representing the faculty and professional staff of the SUNY system.
Digital Storytelling, Binghamton University, August 2024
The workshop's goal was to help use stories and digital media(Podcast) to develop engaging assignments for students and enhance classroom content.
Lumen Circles Course Design for Student Success Fellowship, Nov 2022
Lumen Circles Fellowships provide opportunities to connect with other faculty members to explore effective instructional practices that support student success.
MoSI-SENCER workshop, Scientific Teaching Fellow, Binghamton University, Aug 2022
Using real world problems and evidence-based teaching strategies to improve student learning
