{"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":"2026-03-23T10:05:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:05:51","slug":"laura-pickell","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/people\/laura-pickell\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Pickell"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Primary fields of specialization<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life Sciences Education, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Pathophysiology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Teaching<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Academic Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; I enjoy creating resources and teaching tools to share with my colleagues for use in their classrooms.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; I am constantly seeking ways to improve my teaching and am currently in a Master Teacher Program at the University of Sherbrooke.&nbsp; 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\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Selected publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pickell, L<\/strong>. (2020) Where&#8217;s the Evidence? Confronting Public Panic about COVID-19.&nbsp; <em>National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science<\/em>.&nbsp; University of Buffalo, NY.&nbsp; <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\n\n\n<p>Allen, J.A., Landry, C,, <strong>Pickell, L<\/strong>., Taylor, D. 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