Cornell University is developing a strong DBER community, with faculty, postdocs, and students in biology, physics, economics, and more. DBER efforts also build on the University’s Active Learning Initiative, an institutional funding program to support faculty and departments to implement evidence-based teaching and learning. 

To continue to build this group, we are interested in supporting DBER applications for the Cornell University Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows program (see below). If you are interested in applying with support from faculty in biology and physics education research, please reach out to Natasha Holmes (PER faculty in Physics, ngholmes@cornell.edu) and me (BER faculty in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,mks274@cornell.edu) by June 14th.  We can only sponsor one applicant, so if multiple people are interested, we will be in touch about a pre-application process.  This program would be ideal for someone interested in starting a postdoc in ~1 year.

Our current research interests are quite broad – you can find information on our websites or by contacting us. Prospective applicants should have a strong vision for DBER postdoctoral work that builds on or extends the current DBER programs at Cornell. As per the recommended research theme, we encourage applications interested in study DBER related to genomics instruction, though any interested candidates are encouraged to reach out.