Presenter Profile

Dr. Phillip Sokolove
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

PHILLIP SOKOLOVE is a Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) where he has been a member of the Biological Sciences faculty since 1974. He holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard University and has published research articles in a number of areas of biology including invertebrate neurophysiology, circadian rhythms, and neuroendocrine control of reproduction. From 1990-1995 he was UMBC's representative in an 11-campus, NSF-supported science/math training program for pre-service teachers. There he learned about constructivist teaching and cooperative learning. Although lacking formal training in either teaching or in education research, since 1995 he has been engaged in a long-term study to examine the effects of widely recommended pedagogical reforms on student learning in the large, undergraduate biology course that he teaches. He is currently PI on an NSF GK-12 Fellows grant that places a STEM graduate student and 4 advanced undergraduates in teachers’ classrooms in each of five, high-need middle schools in Greater Baltimore.