Professor of Ecology/Dean Emerita School of Arts and Sciences
Eastern Connecticut State University
Dr. Carmen R. Cid is Professor of Ecology and Dean Emerita of the School of Arts and Sciences at Eastern Connecticut State University. She has been recognized as a national leader in STEM curriculum development, project evaluation of student retention and support programs and career development enhancement for women and minorities in the sciences. In 2017, she was elected a Fellow by the Ecological Society of America (ESA), which represents over 9,000 ecologists, for her leadership and contributions enhancing ecology education outreach to diverse audiences, recruitment and retention of women and minorities in ecology and applying ecological principles to improve undergraduate liberal arts education. Nationally, she helped develop the 2018 ESA-endorsed undergraduate ecology education curricular framework which elevates all aspects of the human dimension, along with innovative data science methods, in the research and teaching of ecology. She has developed bilingual environmental education multimedia curriculum for urban ecology, targeting middle school learners and has worked with undergraduates and graduate students in enhancing their STEM experiential learning opportunities. In 2020, she was awarded the Connecticut Science Center Lifetime Achievement Award for her achievement in improving STEM education. She is currently on the ESA Governing Board, serving as chair of the Education and Diversity Committees.