Melissa Kosinski-Collins was recently promoted to Professor of Biology. Melissa joined the Biology faculty in 2006 as an Assistant Professor (outside the tenure structure).
Using her passion for teaching, she has updated the undergraduate laboratory curriculum to a system of project-based experiments. Currently, she is teaching the introductory biology lab course, plant biology, and a graduate level structural biology course. Melissa is the academic director of the Science Posse and Galaxy Project.