• Colbert receives Iowa science teaching award

  Jim Colbert, associate professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology, has received the 2008 Distinguished Iowa Science Teaching Award from the Iowa Academy of Science.
  
  The award recognizes and promotes undergraduate collegiate science teaching by an individual at an Iowa college or university. Recipients can come from all science, mathematics or science-based technical disciplines.
  
  The coordinator of the ISU biology program, Colbert joined the faculty in 1988. He has been honored several times for his teaching and his efforts to engage students in undergraduate biology activities.
  
  In 2000 Colbert was named a Teaching Faculty Fellow by the ISU Center for Teaching Excellence and in 1999 he was awarded a Wakonse Fellowship for improving collegiate teaching. He also was a member of the inaugural class of the ISU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Master Teachers, who were honored for their teaching expertise in large lecture classrooms.
  
  Colbert has been in involved in two learning communities on campus. As part of the BEST (Biology Education Success Team) he launched the group's service-learning component called the Skunk River Navy.
  
  Each year the Navy pulls a few tons of trash from the Skunk River near Ames, most of which is recycled. For their efforts, the Navy and Colbert received the 2005 Governor's Iowa Environmental Excellence Award.
  
  Colbert also has been the coordinator of the learning community titled Biology Education Teaching and Learning, which is for life science majors seeking secondary education teaching certification and elementary education majors with a science endorsement.
  
  Each May Colbert also co-leads a group of students in a biology field trip class to Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
  
  The nonprofit Iowa Academy of Science supports scientific research, science education and public understanding of science.

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