Michèle Shuster, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the biology department at New Mexico State University is co-author of “Biology for a Changing World,” a new textbook written specifically to help raise science understanding and knowledge for non-science majors and how it applies to a student's daily life. Shuster focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning, studying introductory biology, microbiology and cancer biology classes at the undergraduate level. She also works on several K-12 science education programs.

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