Teaching

At Charlotte

BIOL 3235 – The Biology of Insects
This course is a comprehensive introduction to entomology. Students learn about the diversity of insect groups, basic insect biology, and how entomology has impacted our past and present society.

Other Courses

2022 “Spider Camp” Cohort

Spiders of the Southern Appalachians
Highlands Biological Station, Highlands, North Carolina

This course presents a comprehensive introduction to spider systematics, morphology, behavior, physiology, and ecology in daily morning and/or evening lectures and discussions. Afternoons are devoted to fieldwork, with the objective of assembling a significant collection of the extraordinarily rich local spider fauna while studying spider ecology and behavior.

Students can gain course credit at the graduate or undergraduate level through participating universities. At Charlotte, this course transfers as 4-credit BIOL 4000/5000 – Special Topics in Biology through a substitution/waiver. This course will next run in the summer of 2026.

Course Scholarships: Through an NSF grant in collaboration with the Burns Lab, we funded 8 students to attend the 2022 and 2024 course offerings! Congratulations to all the scholarship awardees!