Rose Theisen (she/her)


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Campus Address
Thomas Steitz Hall of Science
Room 330
Biology
Title
Senior Experience Coordinator and Lecturer in Biology and Curricular Director of the Summer Institute
About

Curricular Director of Summer Institute, Instructor of First Year Studies, Senior Experience Coordinator and Lecturer of Biology

My name is Rose Theisen (pronounced Tyson). I am the curricular director of Summer Institute, an Instructor of First Year Studies, and the Senior Experience Coordinator and Lecturer of Biology at Lawrence University. 

As the Senior Experience Coordinator and Lecturer of Biology, I support biology and biochemistry students during their year-long Senior Experience project, organize all aspects of BIOFEST! A Celebration of Senior Experience Projects, and instruct Senior Experience-related courses in Biology at Lawrence. I am passionate about designing and implementing meaningful and sustainable course-level assessment of student learning in STEM and using student metacognition to supplement conventional assignments.

In my role as curricular program director of Summer Institute, I plan and manage academic activities, including the SI seminar course and the electives courses. I also plan and manage local field trips and the weekend at Björklunden.

If you have questions about the Summer Institute courses or SI in general, please email me.

My current research focuses on ways to increase sense of belonging and supporting quantitative and critical thinking skills for students who are first-generation and students from other underrepresented groups in higher education.

Education
B.S., Chemistry. University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2000
Undergraduate Research Advisor: Professor Judith N. Burstyn

Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry. University of Washington, 2005
Graduate Research Advisor: Professor Julia A. Kovacs
Thesis Title: Synthetic Model Complexes for Cysteinate-Ligated Metalloenzymes

Post-Doctoral Fellowship Bioinorganic Chemistry, University of California - Santa Barbara, 2008-2010
Principal Investigator: Professor Alison Butler
Project: Iron(III)-siderophore coordination chemistry: Reactivity of marine siderophores
Years at Lawrence
2019-present