Sherryl A Broverman, Associate Professor of the Practice
Education:
Ph.D, Indiana University, 1990
Office Location: BioSci: 307B
Office Phone: (919) 668-0228; (919) 681-7719
Email Address: sbrover@duke.edu
Additional Web Page: www.wisergirls.org
Specialties:
Genetics
Evolution
Research Categories: science literacy for non-majors; science education reform; the interaction of gender, education and global health
Current projects: Creating linked curricula on HIV/AIDS with Egerton University in Kenya., Developing international research service learning in the sciences., Community-level HIV interventions in rural Kenya, Geospatial mapping of community activity spaces
Research Description: How inclusion of civic issues, international connections, and social engagement alters the cognitive and affective responses of non- major science students to science education. How course design impacts the demographics (gender, race, etc) of student enrollment in elective science courses. Developing international science courses. The factors that impact educational outcomes for girls in rural Kenya. Community level HIV risk intervention and geospatial analysis of community interactions and access to public services.
Areas of Interest:
global health
HIV/AIDS
gender, education, and international development
science literacy
Recent Publications (search)
- S.A. Broverman, AIDS Research: Global Understanding & Engagement, This is a curricular model published and disseminated on the website of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement (August, 2008) [html] .
- Broverman, SA, Lauterbach, C and Dellinger, E., Supported Yet Undermined: Why Girls Who Complete Secondary School in Rural Kenya Fail to Achieve, International Journal of Educational Development (Submitted, 2008) [abs].
- Ogwang-Odhimabo, R, and S.A. Broverman, Globalizing the Microbiology Curriculum, ASM News, vol. 71 no. 10 (2005), pp. 448-449 [author's comments].
- Broverman, S. and G. Prestwich, Fast ion-exchange membrane purification of a microsomal protein., Biotechniques, vol. 19 no. 6 (1995), pp. 874-875 .
- Broverman, S. and P. Meneely, Meiotic mutants that cause a polar decrease in recombination on the X chromosome in Caenorhabditis elegans., Genetics, vol. 136 (1994), pp. 119-127 .
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