Areas of Research

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Science Literacy, Citizen Science, Conservation Biology

Areas of Interest

Formative and summative assessment of student writing
Development and assessment of new teaching strategies
Assessing critical thinking in biology courses
Assessing the effectiveness of Instructional Techonologies (including iPods, Calibrated Peer Review, Flip Videos, Voicethreads)
Promoting science literacy through engaging Citizen Scientists in research

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University

Lecturer, Department of Biology, 2008 - present

Instructor, Biology Department, 2007 - 2008

Mellon Instructor in Writing and Biology, University Writing Program and Biology Department, 2004 - 2007

Mellon Fellow, University Writing Program, 2002 - 2004

Visiting Positions

Instructor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003 - 2004

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley, 2000
Mellon Fellowship, Duke University, 2002-2007

Conferences Organized

Co-organizer, Organized Oral Session at the Ecological Society of America's 93rd annual meeting, August 05, 2008

Co-organizer, Workshop at the Ecological Society of America's 93rd annual meeting, May 07, 2008

Professional Service

Dept Committee

Steering Committee, Biology Teaching Certificate Program, 2008

Biology Department Teaching Consultation committee, 2004 - 2006

Steering Committee, Biology Teaching Certificate Program, 2005

NSF Reviews And Panels

National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, June, 2008
   I was invited to be on a review panel for NSF's Phase I CCLI (Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement) grant proposals

Univ Services

Faculty Advisor for Duham DukeEngage Interns, DukeEngage, Durham, NC, December 2008
   I designed and led a DukeEngage program at the Eno River State Park, supervising 3 interns in 2008. For more information, see http://research.duke.edu/magnet/

Faculty Advisor for Duham DukeEngage Interns, 2007

Search Committee, University Writing Program, 2004 - 2005

Steering Committee, University Writing Program, 2003 - 2004

Advisory Board, Deliberations, the journal of first year writing at Duke University, 2003

Dept Services

Biology holiday party planning committee, 2008

Service to the Community

Research Advisory Committee, NC Division of Parks & Recreation, 2007 - present
   This committee helps the NC Division of Parks & Recreation set a research agenda. I was invited to participate due to my active research program within the Eno River State Park (Durham, NC).

Education Committee, Eno River Association, Durham, North Carolina, 2007 - present

Faculty Advisor for "Helping Paws," a student service club, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2004 - 2005

Selected Recent Invited Talks

How to conduct effective peer reviews, Biology Department, Duke University, November 11, 2008

Publications

Books

1. J.A. Reynolds, How do I write a scientific paper? A college student's primer on fundamentals and tips for success (1999), Burgess Publishing, Edina, Minnesota.

Papers Published

1. Julie A. Reynolds, When communicating science to the public, use VELCRO to make science stick, Bulletin of Ecological Society of America, vol. 90 no. 3 (2009), pp. 297-304.
2. Julie A. Reynolds, Robin Smith, Cary Moskovitz, and Amy Sayle, BioTAP, the Biology Thesis Assessment Protocol: A Systematic Approach to Teaching Scientific Writing and Evaluating Undergraduate Theses, BioScience, vol. 59 no. 10 (2009), pp. 896-903.
3. Julie A. Reynolds and Cary Moskovitz, Calibrated Peer Review™ assignments in science courses: Are they designed to promote critical thinking and writing skills?, Journal of College Science Teaching, vol. 38 no. 2 (2008), pp. 60-66.
4. Julie A. Reynolds and Vicki Russell, Can You Hear Us Now?: A comparison of peer review quality when students give audio versus written feedback, Writing Across the Curriculum Journal, vol. 19 (2008), pp. 29-44.
5. Julie Reynolds and Steve Vogel, Precisely! A writing exercise for science and engineering classes, Journal of College Science Teaching, vol. 34 no. 5 (2007), pp. 30-34.
6. Julie A. Reynolds, Quantifying habitat associations in marine fisheries: a generalization of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic using commercial logbook records linked to archived environmental data, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, vol. 60 (2003), pp. 370-378.
7. Julie A. Reynolds and James E. Wilen, The sea urchin fishery: Harvesting, processing, and the market, Marine Resource Economics, vol. 15 no. 2 (2000), pp. 115-126.

Papers Accepted

1. Julie A. Reynolds and Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, Promoting science literacy through Research Service-Learning, an emerging pedagogy with significant benefits for students, faculty, universities, and communities, Journal of College Science Teaching (2009).

Papers Submitted

1. Julie Reynolds, Amanda Curtin, Ahrash Bissell, and Paula Lemons, Improving critical thinking skills through quality practice and metacognition: A classroom exercise that helps students construct meaning from content (2009).

Papers In Preparation

1. Julie A, Reynolds and Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, Learning In Versus With the Community: Promoting Public Understanding of Science through the Pedagogy of Service-Learning (2008).