{"id":3366,"date":"2020-06-01T12:07:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T16:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/?post_type=cu-people&#038;p=3366"},"modified":"2024-07-11T09:42:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T13:42:17","slug":"laura-pickell","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/people\/laura-pickell\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Pickell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Primary fields of specialization<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Life Sciences Education, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Pathophysiology<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HLTH 2001 &#8211; Health Research Methods and Skills<br \/>\nHLTH 3404 &#8211; Psychosocial and Biological Interactions in Health<br \/>\nHLTH 3402 &#8211; Diseases of Aging<br \/>\nHLTH 4502 &#8211; Disabilities and Disorders Related to the Sensory Nervous System<br \/>\nHLTH 4102\/5350 &#8211; New Health Technologies<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Academic Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am very excited to join the Health Sciences program at Carleton as an instructor as it combines my two passions: biology and education.\u00a0 My goal is to contribute to excellence in teaching and learning in the life sciences and to improve the undergraduate experience using evidence-based practices in education.\u00a0 I enjoy creating resources and teaching tools to share with my colleagues for use in their classrooms.\u00a0 Examples of my work include a data-driven activity on sex determination in elite athletes I developed as a collaborative project with HHMI BioInteractive and a case study I created addressing myths about COVID-19 for the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science.\u00a0 I am constantly seeking ways to improve my teaching and am currently in a Master Teacher Program at the University of Sherbrooke.\u00a0 Before joining Carleton, I completed my PhD in Human Genetics from McGill University at the Montreal Children&#8217;s Hospital and taught for ten years in the Science and Nursing programs at Heritage College in Hull, Quebec.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pickell, L<\/strong>. (2020) Where&#8217;s the Evidence? Confronting Public Panic about COVID-19.\u00a0 <em>National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science<\/em>.\u00a0 University of Buffalo, NY.\u00a0 <span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu\/collection\/detail.html?case_id=1120&amp;id=1120\">https:\/\/sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu\/collection\/detail.html?case_id=1120&amp;id=1120<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Allen, J.A., Landry, C,, <strong>Pickell, L<\/strong>., Taylor, D. (2019) <span lang=\"EN-CA\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.25334\/Q4TQ7P\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Regulation of Sex Determination<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">.\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/qubeshub.org\/groups\/hhmibiointeractive2018\">HHMI BioInteractive FMN (2018)<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">, QUBES Educational Resources. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.25334\/Q4TQ7P\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">doi:10.25334\/Q4TQ7P<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"slideme\"><dl class=\"slideme__list\"><dt class=\"slideme__term\"><a href=\"#slideme-facutly-fun-fact\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"slideme-facutly-fun-fact\" class=\"slideme__heading slideme__trigger\">Facutly Fun Fact<\/a><\/dt><dd class=\"slideme__description\" id=\"slideme-facutly-fun-fact\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><p><\/p>\n<p>I finally started pursuing my lifelong dream of becoming a prima ballerina four years ago.\u00a0 My goal was to make it to points&#8230;and this year I started on point shoes for the first time in my life!<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/dd><dl><\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"people-type":[6],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - 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