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Else F.

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Education

Else Fjerdingstad is an adjunct professor at the Department of Life Sciences at NYIT. Before joining NYIT, she taught at Marymount Manhattan College for several semesters after years as an assistant professor at CUNY researching and teaching in the field of evolutionary genetics and ecology. Her assistant professorship followed postdoctoral research in Australia, Switzerland, and France, funded by the Australian Research Council, the European Union’s Training and Mobility in Research network and a personal fellowship from the Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark. Her main research areas, which she started tackling as a graduate student with a scholarship from the Danish Natural Sciences Research Council, concern the evolution of mating systems, dispersal strategies and cooperation and involve experiments, fieldwork, and morphometry, as well as population and sociogenetics. She has taught heredity, evolution, social evolution, environmental science, controversies in environmental science, and bioethics at the 100 to 700 levesl at other institutions, and is teaching Foundation of the Scientific Process at NYIT. Publications Crozier, R.H., and E.J. Fjerdingstad. 2001. Polyandry in eusocial Hymenoptera—disunity in diversity? Annales Zoologici Fennici 38:267-285. (161 citations). Fjerdingstad, E.J., and R.H. Crozier. 2006. The evolution of worker caste diversity in social insects. American Naturalist 167: 390-400. (86 citations) ABOUT ACADEMICS ADMISSIONS MORE+ TITLE: DEPARTMENT: CAMPUS: AREA(S) OF EXPERTISE: EDUCATION CREDENTIALS: JOINED NYIT: Else Fjerdingstad ADJUNCT PROFESSOR LIFE SCIENCES OLD WESTBURY, MANHATTAN BIOLOGY, EVOLUTION, GENETICS, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, BIOETHICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY NATURAL SCIENCES PH.D. 2014 Courses Taught Contact Info Fjerdingstad, E.J., and J.J. Boomsma. 1998. Multiple mating increases the sperm stores of leafcutter ant queens. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 42:257-261. (83 citations) Boomsma, J.J., E.J. Fjerdingstad, and J. Frydenberg. 1999. Multiple paternity, relatedness and genetic diversity in Acromyrmex leafcutter ants. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 266:249-254. (82 citations) Fjerdingstad, E.J., J.J. Boomsma, and P. Thorén. 1998. Multiple paternity in the leafcutter ant Atta colombica- a microsatellite DNA study. Heredity 80:118-126. (68 citations)

Experience

I have 18 semesters of experience with teaching biology, bioethics and environmental science at College level, acquired from working at The New York Institute of Technology, Marymount Manhattan College, CUNY, (as course-head) and the University of Aarhus (teaching assistant), and have become especially recognized and appreciated for teaching both scientific and ethical aspects of these areas to 300-level students. My courses comprise lectures based on textbooks, original articles, and own research as well as student presentations of original articles and news items, followed by discussions. The courses have covered Principles of the Scientific Process, Heredity, Evolution, Social Evolution, Bioethics, Environmental Science, and Controversies in Environmental Science. I also have a well-reputed competence as a leader of journal clubs around the world and have taught and mentored students of many nationalities and ethnicities, incl. Prince Badr al Saud of Saudi Arabia, as well as students with learning disabilities. They have expressed that I had an indelible professional impact, calling my courses “truly interesting” and “eye-opening”, stating that my course materials are “Excellent!!!”, that [the professor is] “extremely knowledgeable”, ““She did a great job in delivering the content “,!”” I really have been intrigued and interested in the topic you have helped us explore in this course”, “She was a wonderful and thorough professor”, and that my courses would not be forgotten as they prepare for graduate studies and the future. Peer reviewers have commented on the high-level attained by my students and the lucidity and eloquence of my lectures. Lastly, I have tutored Frenchmen on English in Paris as a private tutor for 6 months.

Availability

Any day at any time

Can Meet

Up to 45 minutes away for no additional charge

Hobbies

Reading history books on inspiring events (Renaissance, Enlightenment, American revolution, French revolution, Colonization of Australia, American politics, the Civil Rights fight, 2nd World War), or leaders (Churchill, de Gaulle, Lafayette, Washington, Elizabeth the first, Queen Mary of Scots, Joan of Arc, Voltaire, Francois Jacob or Pierre and Marie Curie, Nobel), English or French literature (Dickens, the Brontes, Voltaire, Dumas e.g.), poetry (Byron, Shelley, Shakespeare, Baudelaire), or philosophy (Ayn Rand, the Dalai Lhama) listening to bel canto and going to the opera (Metropolitan Opera, Liceu e.g.) to enjoy the works of e.g. Puccini, Verdi, Mozart, Wagner or Giordano, or attending concerts with various types of music, and dining at little French, Italian, Greek, Spanish, Catalan, Morrocan or American restaurants, enjoying a coffee and a talk at a sidewalk cafe in Paris, France, sightseeing to take in the historical atmosphere of cities such as Paris, Athens, Rome, Florence, Venice, Melbourne, New York City, Copenhagen or London, visiting museums (Louvre, Versailles or Carnavalet), mountain climbing (Austrian, Swiss and French alps, Wales, England, Australia, Pyrenean mountains, Norway) with others or solo, going swimming, doing scientific research, pondering on research topics, theory, concepts, empirics, or statistics, writing journal articles and reading the literature, discussing among friends or colleagues.

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