Welcome to new faculty
The following are new faculty in the department.
Kristen Heroy, Ph.D..
Dr. Heroy joined the department in the Fall of 2020 as a Visiting Assistant Professor, teaching Evolution, Behavioral Ecology, Microbiology lab, Writing in the Biological Sciences, and a new non-majors course, Plants, People, and Agriculture. Dr. Heroy earned her B.S. in Animal Science from the University of Delaware, her M.S. in Animal Science from Angelo State University, and her Ph.D. in Wildlife Ecology from Utah State University. Prior to her arrival at Lehigh, Kristen was an adjunct professor at Cedar Crest College in Allentown.
Wynn Meyer, Ph.D.
Wynn Meyer is an Assistant Professor in the department. She is an evolutionary biologist with research interests in evolutionary genetics in human populations and other animal systems. Dr. Meyer earned a B.S. in the Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology track from Yale University and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Wynn did her postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley and at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to her arrival at Lehigh in the Fall of 2020, Dr. Meyer spent a year as an AAAS Fellow, where she worked with the Office of Data Science Strategy at the National Institutes of Health to support data infrastructure, management, and policy and data science training.
Lawrence Tartaglia, Ph.D.
Larry came to Lehigh in January, 2020 and is a Visiting Assistant Professor. He earned his B.A. in Biology and M.S. in Molecular Biology from Rutgers University, and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from the University of Florida. Prior to his arrival at Lehigh, Dr. Tartaglia was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School. In addition to his research at Harvard, he was an adjunct lecturer at Emmanuel College. Dr. Tartaglia has been the instructor for the department’s Core I (Cell & Molecular) and Core II (Genetics) courses, as well as the Biochemistry Lab, and Virology lecture course.
Nathan Urban, Ph.D.
Dr. Urban was hired as Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Provost of Lehigh University, and began his tenure in July 2020. Beginning his career in academia at Carnegie Mellon University, where he served as head of the Department of Biological Sciences and later as Interim Provost, Dr. Urban then became a member of the faculty at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he was Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Strategic Initiatives. Dr. Urban’s research focuses on experimental and computational analysis of sensory processing by neural circuits in the mouse brain.
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