LAWRENCE BLUMER, PH.D.

Department Chair and Professor, Biology Department

Beck, Christopher W., & Blumer, Lawrence S. “The Relationship Between Perceptions of Instructional Practices and Student Self-Efficacy in Guided-Inquiry Laboratory Courses.” CBE-Life Sciences Education 20, no. 1 (2021): e-pub. DOI: https://www.lifescied.org/doi/epdf/10.1187/cbe.20-04-0076

2020

Blumer, Lawrence S. 2020. Solar panel electricity, efficiency and environmental impacts. Article 4 In: McMahon, K. editor. Advances in Biology Laboratory Education Volume 41. Publication of the 41st Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE), https://doi.org/10.37590/able.v41.art4

Blumer, Lawrence S., and Christopher W. Beck. “Introducing Community Ecology and Data Skills with the Bean Beetle Microbiome Project.” Advances in Biology Laboratory Education (June 2020). https://doi.org/10.37590/able. v41.art24

Jacobs-Sera, Deborah, Lawrence A. Abad, Richard M. Alvey, Kirk R. Anders, Haley G. Aull, Suparna S. Bhalia, Lawrence S. Blumer, David W. Bollivar, J. Alfred Bonilla, Kristen A. Butela, Roy J. Coomans, Stephen G. Cresawn, Tom D’Elia, Arturo Diaz, Ashley M. Divens, Nicholas P. Edgington, Gregory D. Frederick, Maria D. Gainey, Rebecca A. Garlena, Kenneth W. Grant, Susan M.R. Gurney, Heather L. Hendrickson, Lee E. Hughes, Margaret A. Kenna, Karen K. Klyczek, Hari Kotturi, Travis N. Mavrich, Angela L. McKinney, Evan C. Merkhofer, Jordan Moberg Parker, Sally D. Molloy, Denise L. Monti, Dana A. Pape-Zambito, Richard S. Pollenz, Welkin H. Pope, Nathan S. Reyna, Claire A. Rinehart, Daniel A. Russell, Christopher D. Shaffer, Viknesh Sivanathan, Ty H. Stoner, Joseph Stukey, C. Nicole Sunnen, Sara S. Tolsma, Philippos K. Tsourkas, Jamie M. Westover, JoAnn L. WhitefleetSmith, Helen I. Wiersma-Koch, Daniel C. Williams, Kira M. Zack, and Graham F. Hatfull. “Genomic Diversity of Bacteriophages Infecting Microbacterium spp.” PLOS One 15, no. 6 (June 2020): e0234636. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234636

Zelaya, Anna J., Nicole M. Gerardo, Lawrence S. Blumer, and Christopher W. Beck. “The Bean Beetle Microbiome Project: A Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience in Microbiology.” Frontiers in Microbiology 11 (September 2020): 577621. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.577621

2019

Beck, Christopher W. and Lawrence S. Blumer. “A Model for an Intensive Hands- on Faculty Development Workshop to Foster Change in Laboratory Teaching.” Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education 20, no 3 (October 2019). DOI: http://10.1128/jmbe.v20i3.1799

Blumer, Lawrence S. and Christopher W. Beck. “Laboratory Courses with Guided-Inquiry Modules Improve Scientific Reasoning and Experimental Design Skills for the Least-Prepared Undergraduate Students.”

CBE-Life Sciences Education 18, no 2 (2019). DOI: 10.1187/cbe.18-08-0152.

Blumer, Lawrence S. and Alexandra Peister. “Research Immersion Improves Outcomes for Underprepared Freshmen.” Tested Studies for Laboratory Teaching: Proceedings of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education 40, no 59 (2019). http://www.ableweb.org/volumes/vol-40/?art=59