Erin Dolan is the Georgia Athletic Association Professor of Innovative Science Education at the University of Georgia. Dolan is a biochemist known for her research on engaging students in science research.

Education and career

Dolan has a B.A. in biology from

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial g ...

(1993) where she did an honors thesis on SCPb, a

neurotransmitter A neurotransmitter is a signaling molecule secreted by a neuron to affect another cell across a synapse. The cell receiving the signal, any main body part or target cell, may be another neuron, but could also be a gland or muscle cell. Neuro ...

in the American lobster. She earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of California, San Francisco where she worked on developmental plasticity in the nematode

Caenorhabditis elegans ''Caenorhabditis elegans'' () is a free-living transparent nematode about 1 mm in length that lives in temperate soil environments. It is the type species of its genus. The name is a blend of the Greek ''caeno-'' (recent), ''rhabditis'' (ro ...

. Following her Ph.D., she worked at the University of Arizona for two years before moving to Virginia Tech in 2002. In 2011, Dolan moved to the University of Georgia where she was named the Georgia Athletic Association Professor of Innovative Science Education in 2016. From 2014 until 2016 she was the executive director of the Texas Institute for Discovery Education in Science at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2010 Dolan was named Editor-in-chief of the journal CBE: Life Sciences Education.

Research

As a neuroscientist, Dolan worked on sensory signalling, gene expression, and nerve development in the nematode

. Following her graduate work, Dolan started researching science education where she focuses on the development of programs to increase retention of students in science disciplines and how social and cultural phenomena impact student learning and development, particularly in course-based undergraduate research experiences called CUREs.

Selected publications

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Awards and honors

Bruce Alberts Award for Excellence in Science Education The Bruce Alberts Award for Excellence in Science Education is awarded annual by the American Society for Cell Biology. It is awarded to an individual who has demonstrated innovative and sustained contributions to science education, with particula ...

(2018) * Award for Exemplary Contributions to Education, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2017) * Excellence in Education of the American Society of Plant Biologists (2013)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dolan, Erin University of California, San Francisco alumni Wellesley College alumni University of Georgia faculty Living people Women biochemists Science teachers American neuroscientists 1971 births