Rose Theisen (she/her)

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.