After returning from a sabbatical year in Australia in 1992, she was offered a job with the Center for Biology Education and with it she found her new passion: working with UW faculty to improve teaching and campus diversity. For the next 14 years she was instrumental in multiple campus-wide initiatives to engage faculty in undergraduate education, including Creating a Collaborative Learning Environment (CCLE), Instructional Materials Development (IMD), First Year Interest Groups (FIGs), Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI) and the National Academies Summer Institutes, to name just a few.
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