Sara Brownell, President’s Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, has received the Bruce Alberts Award for Excellence in Sciences Education from the American Society for Cell Biology. The award is presented to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to advancing science education.
An Arizona State University faculty member for more than a decade, Dr. Brownell is a leading biology education researcher whose scholarship centers on making undergraduate science learning environments more inclusive. As the founding director of the university’s Research for Inclusive STEM Education Center, she works with faculty, staff, and students to generate research on inclusive STEM environments. Her current research focuses on students with concealable stigmatized identities, as well as the impact of revealing those identities in a classroom setting.
Dr. Brownell is a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she majored in biology. She holds a master’s degree in biology from the Scripps Research Institute in California, as well as a master’s degree in education and Ph.D. in biology from Stanford University.