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Alan R. Harker
Dean's Office
Microbiology & Molecular Biology
Email: Alan_Harker@byu.edu

302b WIDB
Provo, UT 84602
(801) 422-3582

Professor
Associate Dean

Great Salt Lake

Education

PhD , Biology , University of Utah , 1982
BS , Biology/Chemistry , University of Utah , 1976

Research

Microbial ecology and community dynamics of the Great Salt Lake

Selected Publications

Articles

Harker, A.R. "Application of the Scientific Method in an Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory: A Reality Based Approach to Experiential Student-Directed Instruction." J. Coll. Science Teach. 29 (1999): 97-100.

Books

A.R. Harker. "Full Application of the Scientific Method in an Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory: A Reality Based Approach to Experiential Student-Directed Instruction." Practicing Science, The Investigative Approach in College Science Teaching. Ed. J. Cusick. Arlington VA: NSTA Press, 2001.

Experience

Teaching

Professor , Brigham Young University , 1999-Present
Associate Professor , Brigham Young University , 1994-1999
Associate Professor , Oklahoma State University , 1991-1994
Assistant Professor , Oklahoma State University , 1987-1991

Professional

Associate Dean , College of Biology and Agriculture , 2005-Present
Department Chair , Brigham Young University , 2001-2005
Research Fellow , U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , 1985-1987
Research Associate , Oregon State University , 1983-1985
Research Associate , Washington State University , 1982-1983

Awards

Recognition of Service , Board of Education & Training, American Society for Microbiology , 1995
Recognition of Service , Native Americans in Biological Sciences and the Ponca, Pawnee, and Otoe-Missouria tribes , 1995

Courses Taught

MCBIO 291 (Readings in Science)
MCBIO 371
MCBIO 491R

BYULinks

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