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Jennifer Carpenter

Jennifer Carpenter

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Personally, Prof. Jennifer isn't that great as a teacher. She always thinks while she's speaking so lectures always take too long. However, she's really nice. If you want to do well, participation is mandatory because most of the things that show up on tests are mentioned in the lectures. Even by typing out notes and studying a day before only, I still ended up with an A+.

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Biography

University of Toronto St. George Campus - Environmental Studies

Freelance science journalist
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Jennifer
Carpenter
Toronto, Canada Area
Jennifer Carpenter is a freelance science journalist. She writes about women, women’s health and human tissue, its meaning, value and the ethics of its use, among other things.

Her writing has appeared in Science, Nature, Science Careers, BBC News, New Scientist, BBC Focus magazine, BBC Wildlife, and she has made and produced radio for the BBC and CBC. She formerly worked as a broadcast journalist at the BBC in London and as a reporter for Science.

She holds a lecturing position at the University of Toronto, has chaired panels at numerous science festivals, and over the last decade trained hundreds of scientists at dozens of universities and institutes about how to better communicate.

To information about teaching and workshops: http://www.jennycarpenter.com/teaching/
Clips: http://www.jennycarpenter.com/clips/

Experience

  • University of Toronto

    Lecturer

    Teaching an undergraduate course on adaptation and evolution for non-science majors.

  • University of Toronto

    Science Communication Facilitator

    Creating, coordinating and teaching science communication workshops for graduate students and PDFs in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

    Creating and maintaining the 'Seeds of Science' blog---the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology's graduate blog: http://theseedsofscience.com/

    Creating and curating 'The Cabinet'---an art space aimed at fostering creative dialogue between Toronto’s artists and scientists: https://www.facebook.com/thecabinetspace/?ref=hl

  • BBC

    Reporter

    Covered Canadian science for the BBC in London, reporting Jon Amos, Assistant Editor, Science and Nature, BBC News website.

  • BBC

    Broadcast Journalist on Ivan Nobel Bursary

    Wrote daily online news. Voiced daily dispatches for BBC World Service. Contributed to studio recorded discussion for national and international radio.

  • Freelance

    Science Journalist

    Clients included BBC World Service, New Scientist, Science Careers, Science, Nature, BBC Focus, EMBL, BBC Wildlife Magazine, BBC News and CBC.

  • Science Magazine

    Intern

    Wrote daily news for online. Covered UK and US science policy for print and online. Researched and wrote features for print.

Education

  • The University of Edinburgh

    Ph.D

    Evolutionary Genetics

  • The University of Sheffield

    BSc

    Ecology

  • The University of Sheffield

    M.Biol.Sci

    Biology

EEB 214

Evolution and Adaptation

It been called the most important idea in human history, the idea that that human life, indeed all life, can be explained through evolution by natural selection. In this one-term lecture course you will be introduced to the main characters behind the theory of evolution by natural selection, and to those who later tested it. And you will be given the opportunity to understand the scientific basis and principles behind the theory of evolution and reflect on how it affects you and your society.

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  • Level: Undergraduate
  • Credit hours: 0
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