Dewsbury, Bryan Graduate Faculty
- Associate Professor, Biological Sciences , College of Arts, Sciences & Education
Overview
overview
- Dr. Dewsbury is the principal investigator of the Science Education and Society research program, which focuses on the social context of teaching and learning in a variety of education contexts.
Publications
selected scholarly works & creative activities
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Article
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2025Self-regulated learning in STEM: non-academics matter. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. 26.Full Text via DOI: 10.1128/jmbe.00166-25 Web of Science: 001593287700001
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2025"I'm Just Me and that's Okay": Pláticas with First-Year Latin* Biology Students at a Large Hispanic-Serving Institution. Journal of Latinos and Education.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/15348431.2025.2596634 Web of Science: 001626337500001
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2025The Role of Faculty in Cultivating Thriving Campus STEM Ecosystems. CBE Life Sciences Education. 24.Full Text via DOI: 10.1187/cbe.24-02-0041 Web of Science: 001500987400001
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2025Diversifying Ecology Education for Everyone Through More Inclusive, Interdisciplinary, and Accessible Teaching. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 106.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/bes2.2233
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2025Toward a Humanist and Agentic Paradigm of Inclusive Teaching-Lessons from the United States Civil Rights Era for College Pedagogy. Teaching & Learning Inquiry: The ISSOTL Journal. 13.Full Text via DOI: 10.20343/teachlearninqu.13.12 Web of Science: 001461845700002
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2024Validating an instrument for measuring community cultural wealth with biology majors at a Hispanic-serving institution. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. 25.Full Text via DOI: 10.1128/jmbe.00123-24 Web of Science: 001325474900001
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2024Exploring the Journey of STEM Faculty into Justice-centered Pedagogy. CBE Life Sciences Education. 23.Full Text via DOI: 10.1187/cbe.24-02-0063 Web of Science: 001358250100001
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2024Learning in context: Undergraduate students' knowledge and the content retention of anatomy between discipline-specific and integrated course approaches. Anatomical Sciences Education. 17:1308-1322.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/ase.2469 Web of Science: 001261062900001
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2024Toward inclusive teaching: Utilizing student-created case studies in a personal finance course. Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal. 52:298-313.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/fcsr.12512 Web of Science: 001216059100001
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2024Strengthening inclusive teaching with a MOOC: Adult education and STEM as professional development partners. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education. 2024:29-40.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/ace.20519
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2024The Impact of a Metacognitive Intervention on Student Experiences and Success in an Academic Probation Program for First-Year Students. Teaching & Learning Inquiry: The ISSOTL Journal. 12.Full Text via DOI: 10.20343/teachlearninqu.12.26 Web of Science: 001331194800004
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2024The Impacts of an Academic Intervention Based in Metacognition on Academic Performance. Teaching & Learning Inquiry: The ISSOTL Journal. 12.Full Text via DOI: 10.20343/teachlearninqu.12.12 Web of Science: 001226262500002
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2022Sustainability and Justice: Challenges and Opportunities for an Open STEM Education. CBE Life Sciences Education. 21.Full Text via DOI: 10.1187/cbe.20-08-0180 Web of Science: 001254872300023
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2022Inclusive and active pedagogies reduce academic outcome gaps and improve long-term performance. PLoS ONE. 17.Full Text via DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268620 Web of Science: 000832307900125
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2021Undergraduate Student Course Perceptions in Response to Pedagogically Different Approaches in Introductory Anatomy and Physiology. HAPS Educator. 25:7-23.Full Text via DOI: 10.21692/haps.2021.008
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2021Chronicling the Journey of the Society for the Advancement in Biology Education Research (SABER) in its Effort to Become Antiracist: From Acknowledgement to Action. Frontiers in Education. 6.Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2021.780401 Web of Science: 000732604800001
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2021Asian Americans’ mental health help-seeking attitudes: The relative and unique roles of cultural values and ethnic identity.. Asian American Journal of Psychology. 12:138-146.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/aap0000230
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2021Student Perceptions of the Institutional Response to an Untimely COVID-Driven Semester Disruption. International Journal of Learning and Teaching. 166-174.Full Text via DOI: 10.18178/ijlt.7.2.166-174
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2020Reflections and Actions for Creating an Inclusive Research Environment. Current Protocols in Essential Laboratory Techniques. 21.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/cpet.43
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2020Deep teaching in a college STEM classroom. Cultural Studies of Science Education. 15:169-191.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s11422-018-9891-z Web of Science: 000520830800011
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2019Career Choice among First-Generation, Minority STEM College Students. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. 20.Full Text via DOI: 10.1128/jmbe.v20i3.1775 Web of Science: 000512321500007
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2019Barriers to inclusive deliberation and democratic governance of genetic technologies at the science-policy interface. Journal of Science Communication. 18.Full Text via DOI: 10.22323/2.18030402
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2019On the problem and promise of metaphor use in science and science communication. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. 19.Full Text via DOI: 10.1128/jmbe.v19i1.1538
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2019Using a logic model to direct backward design of curriculum. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. 19.Full Text via DOI: 10.1128/jmbe.v19i3.1638
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2017Context Determines Strategies for 'Activating' the Inclusive Classroom.. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. 18:18.3.66.Full Text via DOI: 10.1128/jmbe.v18i3.1347
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2015Debating the Role of Higher Education in Society. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. 16:96-97.Full Text via DOI: 10.1128/jmbe.v16i1.900
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2013Confluence: A Seminar Series as a Teaching Tool. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. 14:258-259.Full Text via DOI: 10.1128/jmbe.v14i2.595 Web of Science: 000449695900017
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201320th Annual ASM Conference for Undergraduate Educators (ASMCUE). Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. 14:143-164.Full Text via DOI: 10.1128/jmbe.v14i1.588
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2011QBIC, an interdisciplinary and quantitative biological sciences curriculum: Concept to implementation. Journal of Science Education: revista de edicacion en ciencias. 12:11-14.
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2010ARTIFICIAL REEFS CONCENTRATE NUTRIENTS AND ALTER BENTHIC COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN AN OLIGOTROPHIC, SUBTROPICAL ESTUARY. Bulletin of Marine Science. 86:813-829.Full Text via DOI: 10.5343/bms.2009.1066 Web of Science: 000283281600004
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Book Chapter
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2022Technology, Equity, and Inclusion in the Virtual Education Space. 35-60.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-95633-2_2
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Book Review
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2014The New Science of Learning: How to Learn in Harmony With Your Brain. Ed. 15.Full Text via DOI: 10.1128/jmbe.v15i1.712 Web of Science: 000449697300023
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Editorial Material
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2020The timeliness of inclusion efforts in biology education. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. 1-3.Full Text via DOI: 10.1128/JMBE.V21I1.2123
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Other Scholarly Work
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2025On the comprehensive forensic analysis of the equity-minded classroom. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education. 114-116.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/bmb.21879 Web of Science: 001391426400001
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Review
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2020Science Communication Demands a Critical Approach That Centers Inclusion, Equity, and Intersectionality. Frontiers in Communication.Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2020.00002
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2016A review of seagrass economic valuations: Gaps and progress in valuation approaches. Ecosystem Services. 68-77.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.02.010 Web of Science: 000375213800006
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2006Marine ecosystem-based management: from characterization to implementation. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 525-532.Full Text via DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2006)4[525:MEMFCT]2.0.CO;2 Web of Science: 000242628600013
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Research
principal investigator on
- Collaborative Research: IMPLEMENTATION: Broadening participation of racially marginalized individuals to transform SABER and biology education awarded by National Science Foundation 2024 - 2029
- IUSE: Assessing sense of belonging, climate, and culture at the Departmental level from the perspective of undergraduate students awarded by National Science Foundation 2024 - 2026
- Fairchild Fellowship (Erin Johnson) awarded by Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden 2025 - 2026
- RIOS - For a Racially Just Inclusive Open STEM Education awarded by William & Flora Hewlett Foundation 2024 - 2025
- Reconceptualizing College Teaching for Equitable Student Outcomes: A Strategic Focus on Equity-Based Teaching and the Systemic Levers that Support Broad-Scale Change awarded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 2022 - 2025
- Deep Teaching Residency: A Faculty Development Program for Design and Implementation of Inclusive Undergraduate STEM Teaching Practices awarded by National Science Foundation 2022 - 2025
- Fairchild award awarded by Florida Department of Transportation 2024 - 2025
- Fairchild Education Department ASTE fellowship awarded by Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden 2023 - 2025
- The impacts of antiracist practices in gateway introductory biology courses awarded by Spencer Foundation 2021 - 2024
- Institute for a Racially Just, Inclusive and Open STEM Education (RIOS) awarded by William & Flora Hewlett Foundation 2023 - 2024
- Institute for a Racially Just, Inclusive and Open STEM Education (RIOS) awarded by William & Flora Hewlett Foundation 2022
co-principal investigator on
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Grant
- HSI-CCC: UNIDOS HSI Program Network Resource Center for Community Coordination awarded by National Science Foundation 2023 - 2029
- NSF S-STEM Track 2: Enhancing career pathways of talented financially disadvantaged Biology STEM students through scholarships and inclusive transformative academic experiences awarded by National Science Foundation 2022 - 2028
- Working Across Boundaries through promoting collaboration and interdisciplinarity in future STEM education scholars awarded by National Science Foundation 2023 - 2026
- Coastal Ecosystems Research Experience for Teachers (CE-RET)--From the Everglades to the Coral Reefs awarded by National Science Foundation 2023 - 2026
- LSAMP BD: Florida International University FGLSAMP awarded by National Science Foundation 2022 - 2025
subproject principal investigator on
- Women's Explorer Award awarded by Herbert Gruber 2022 - 2027
Contact
full name
- Bryan Dewsbury
