Andrea Novicki
Email: andrea.novicki@duke.edu
Phone: 919-668-2320
Fax: 919-668-2578
Physical location: 030 Bostock Library
Mailing address:
Box 90198
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
Academic Technology Consultant
Andrea helps faculty to be effective and efficient while reaching their teaching goals. With her colleagues at the Center for Instructional Technology, she monitors published research on student learning and trends and practices in instructional technology. Andrea concentrates on science education, and works with faculty primarily in the sciences (Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Statistical Sciences, Mathematics, Physics and Psychology and Brain Sciences as well as the Nicholas School for the Environment and Pratt School of Engineering). Andrea's current enthusiasms are tablet PCs, GPS and Google Earth, please ask her about them.
Background
Before coming to Duke, Andrea taught General Biology, Zoology, Neurobiology and Physiology at Johnson C. Smith University, and conducted supplemental active learning sessions for students majoring in biology. She helped other faculty use technology in instruction and delivered courses to other universities via videoteleconferencing. She encouraged students to participate in summer research internships with a combination of workshops, classroom visits and one-on-one counseling.
As a faculty member in biology at University of Massachusetts Boston, Andrea taught Neurobiology, the Neural Basis of Animal Behavior and Topics in Neurobiology. At UMass, she investigated the neural and hormonal control of behavior, supervised undergraduate and graduate student researchers, and funded an inquiry-based neurobiology laboratory for teaching undergraduates.
Andrea earned a PhD at the University of California, Irvine and did postdoctoral research at the Marine Biomedical Institute at the University of Texas Medical Branch and at the Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Oregon. Her research papers have broadly focused on the neural and hormonal basis of behavior.
Andrea's favorite things
Google Earth
Interactive visualizations like Gap Minder and Tag Crowd
tablet PCs
ScienceBlogs
My links
Did I mention Google Earth?
