Dr. Kelly Cowan Miami University, USA

Kelly Cowan has taught microbiology at Miami University in Ohio since 1993. She is the author of two successful McGraw-Hill microbiology textbooks. She and her students have published many research articles in the area of microbial attachment and its disruption. Her interest in under-resourced students led her to research and... read moreengagement in the area of poverty and the achievement gap in K-12 and higher education, and classroom strategies to close the gap. Kelly was educated at the University of Louisville, the University of Maryland, and the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands. She has served as the American Society for Microbiology Chair for Undergraduate Education. For more information see her website at www.kellycowan.org