McGavacks Professor of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney, Virginia, United States
Dr. Wolyniak is the McGavacks Associate Professor of Biology and Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research. He has been at Hampden-Sydney since 2009. He received his B.A. from Colgate University in 1998, his Ph.D. in genetics from Cornell University in 2004, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth from 2004-2009. At Hampden-Sydney, Dr. Wolyniak has received the Cabell Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2012, the John Peter Mettauer Award for Excellence in Research in 2013, the Thomas Edward Crawley Award for service to the College and its ideals in 2017, and the Senior Class Award in 2019. Dr. Wolyniak’s research focuses on the implementation of research experiences into undergraduate coursework and has been supported by several grants from the National Science Foundation. He has played a leading role in the development and implementation of the VFIC’s “Heat Watch” project, a 10-institution joint undergraduate research project for better understanding and responding to the effects of heat islands across Virginia. He has served on the Education Committee of the American Society for Cell Biology and is Past President of the Virginia Academy of Science. He is currently a Councilor and Vice-Chair of the Biology Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), a member of the Science Outreach Committee of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and a Fellow with the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE).
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