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Scott M Cowell

  • Associate Professor of Practice, Environmental Science
  • Member of the Graduate Faculty
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  • cowell@arizona.edu
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Biography

Scott M. Cowell, Ph.D, is an Associeate Professor of Practice within ENVS. His position duties include updating and transforming in-person courses into engaging online formats as well as helping to lead recruitment and retention efforts of the ENVS Department though outreach to prospective students. In 2018, Dr. Cowell launched an initiative to meet with community college faculty throughout Arizona to pursue 2+2 programs between local colleges and ENVS. In addition to previous research experience within the University of Arizona Chemistry Department, Dr. Cowell has taught for 11 years at the community college level and won the 2016 Outstanding Teaching Award for adjunct faculty at Pima Community College across all disciplines. Dr. Cowell also had extensive involvement in the design and implementation of Pima Community College's assessment program, which included presenting workshops to fellow faculty members on best assessment practices.

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Physical Science
    • Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
    • Synthesis of L-Pyrenylalanine with incorporation into aliphatic peptides for fluorescent spectroscopy.
  • B.S. Chemistry with minor in English
    • University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Work Experience

  • Pima Community College, Tucson, Arizona (2007 - 2017)
  • University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (1997 - 2012)

Licensure & Certification

  • Independent Applying the QM Rubric (APPQMR): (Statewide Systems), QM Higher Education (2019)
  • QM Improving your own Course Certification, QM Higher Education (2020)
  • QM PRC Certification, Quality Matters Higher Education (2022)

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Teaching

Best practices in Online teaching. Coordinating, executing, and overseeing the transition of traditional classes to an online environment. This involves all aspects of online classes from recruiting students, hiring faculty, designing, and implementing classes.

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