Professor of Biochemistry Pam Mertz participated in the "Transforming Undergraduate Education in the Molecular Life Sciences" conference held at Macalaster College in St. Paul, Minnesota, from July 24-27. Mertz served on an invited practitioner panel (“What We Teach”), where she described semester-long writing projects in St. Mary’s College of Maryland (SMCM) biochemistry I and II classes. She co-presented a classroom activity demonstration (“Reimaginging Metabolism: Engaging Strategies to Teach Pathways”), which was a card game used to teach the citric acid cycle.
Additionally, Mertz co-authored three poster presentations – two for the BioMolViz (Biomolecular Visual Literacy) community and one on investigating, through a national survey, faculty workload at primarily undergraduate institutions. Lastly, Mertz facilitated a group discussion of “Levers for Change: Enacting the AAAS’ Vision and Change.”
