Sarah Wise, Ph.D.

As an LA Program Teaching Professor, Sarah teaches courses including Becoming a Teaching Assistant, the LA Mentor Weekly Prep Meeting, and supports LA program development.  

Sarah has pursued dual interests in biology and education across her career. She started teaching biology and physics in the late 90s and started teaching teachers while in grad school. Sarah then worked in education and institutional change research for 18 years. She helped develop the Departmental Action Team Project, which promotes healthy departmental change processes engaging students, staff, and faculty. Along the way, she has worked with faculty, staff and students in EBIO, MCDB, PHYS, APS, CHEM, ATOC, GEOL, ECEE, ECCS, RLST, LING, SASC, CIRES, CTL, ASSETT, and at CSU (TILT). Sarah earned a Bachelor’s in biology from Swarthmore College, a teaching certificate in PA, a Master’s in secondary education from SFSU, and a Ph.D. in biology from CU.