Type of professor

President's Professor

Bio summary

As an instructor, I feel that I've come a long way from that first class in 1997. Now there are 350 to 400 students sitting in front of me, viewing pictures and videos, discussing the concepts that I introduce in class, and watching me walk like a gibbon or an early ancestor. It seems that this latter activity makes me much more approachable, and students are emboldened to come and talk to me after class or in office hours. All of their senses are engaged if they let them.