Ross Nehm, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Contact Info:
- E-mail: nehm.1@osu.edu
- Office: 246 Arps Hall
- Phone: (614) 688-5373
- Fax: (614) 755-4241
Mailing Address:
- 1945 N. High St.
- Columbus, OH 43210-1172
Education
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
- Ed.M., Columbia University
- B.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Postdoctoral Fellow, National Science Foundation
Research Biography
Prof. Nehm's research has spanned a diverse array of topics within science teaching and learning, although he currently focuses on four areas:
- student and teacher cognition about evolution and the nature of science;
- science assessment and measurement;
- multicultural approaches to teaching science; and
- conceptual change approaches for restructuring mental models of biological phenomena. He is a also a member of the Evolution, Ecology and Organismal biology faculty at OSU.
Activities and Honors
- National Academy of Sciences Fellow in the Life Sciences
- CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
- City College of New York Faculty Mentoring Award
- Outstanding Instructor, Department of Integrative Biology, UC-Berkeley
- Chancellor's Academic Excellence Award (Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis)
Selected Grants History
- NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. CAREER. "Integrating science research on the Neogene of the Dominican Republic with the science education of Dominican American teachers and students in New York City." (2003-2008).
- CUNY TEACHER ACADEMY. "Collaborative development and evaluation of alternative approaches to the assessment of student learning: Forging a new partnership among teachers, college faculty, and DOE mentors at A. Philip Randolph High School" (2006-2007).
- CUNY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANT. "Engaging students in the sciences through connections with the social sciences and humanities." 2003-2004. Renewal for fall 2004.
- CCNY MSE HS and CUNY. "Marine biodiversity Project at Pelham Bay Park, Bronx." 2004.
- CCHSMST. "Teaching and learning of biological systematics using web-based molecular and morphological databases and computational technology: A module for 9th grade biology students." 2002-2003.
- NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. International Postdoctoral Fellowship, International Division. Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland. 1999-2000.
- NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. Dissertation Improvement Grant, Division of Systematic Biology. Department of Integrative Biology, Univ. of California-Berkeley. Project: "The Neogene mass extinction in the western Atlantic: Determining the influence of methodology on patterns of extinction and faunal turnover." 1995-1998.
Selected Publications
- Nehm, R.H. and Schonfeld, I. (2008). Measuring knowledge of natural selection: a comparison of the CINS, and open-response instrument, and oral interview. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Vol. 45 (37 pages).
- Nehm, R.H. and Budd, A.F. (Eds.). (2008). Evolutionary Stasis and Change in the Dominican Republic Neogene. Springer. 315 p.
- Nehm, R.H. and Young, R. (2008). “Sex Hormones” in Secondary School Biology Textbooks. Science & Education, Vol. 17 (16 pages).
- Nehm, R. H. and Reilly, L. (2007). Biology majors' knowledge and misconceptions of natural selection. Bioscience, 57(3):263-272.
- Nehm, R. H. and Schonfeld, I. (2007). Does increasing biology teacher knowledge about evolution and the nature of science lead to greater advocacy for teaching evolution in schools? Journal of Science Teacher Education, 18(4) (25 pages).
- Nehm, R.H. (2007). Teaching evolution and the nature of science. Focus on Microbiology Education, 13(3):5-9.
- Nehm, R. H. and A. F. Budd. (2006). Missing 'links' in bioinformatics education: Expanding students' conceptions of bioinformation and evolution using paleobiological databases. The American Biology Teacher 7(91) pp. 1-9.
- Nehm, R. H. and J. Luna. (2006). Exploring the roles of Dominican-American transnationalism, cultural capital, and 'sense of place' in science teacher education and multicultural curriculum reform. Pp. 1-11 In: Proceedings of The Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE) International conference, Portland Oregon, January 14th.
- Nehm, R. H. (2006). Faith-based evolution education? Bioscience, Volume 56, Number 8, pp. 638-639.
