Van
Wishingrad

Biology

Van Wishingrad is a PhD candidate in the Department of Biology in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. His PhD focuses on population genetics and landscape genetics of lizards in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. His work has implications for our basic understanding of gene flow in complex landscapes, and conservation of biological diversity across different environments. He has been teaching for more than 10 years, and has been refining active learning methods and techniques over his teaching career in a broad variety of courses. In 2017 he founded the Oahu Biodiviersity Project a project designed to demonstrate how iNaturalist and other "citizen science" platforms can help promote active learning both in and out of the classroom.

For more information, and for help incorporating active learning in your courses, please email vanw@hawaii.edu.