Cissy Ballen is a postdoc at the University of Minnesota and her research centers on strategies to reduce attrition of historically underrepresented groups in STEM fields.
Cissy gave a seminar on how active learning can improve diversity and affect the learning performance by students, based on the work she has been doing at Cornell University and University of Minnesota. Cissy is now doing research on biology teaching in collaboration with bioCEED.
Click on the screenshot below to watch her presentation: