Zoe Cohen

Interests

Teaching

I am interested in teaching Cardiovascular Physiology and Immunology to the best of my ability. I like trying new technologies, such as blogs, new learning management systems, and flipped classrooms as ways to interact with my students.

Research

I am interested in the role red blood cells might play in coagulation.

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Journals/Publications

• Cohen, Z., Cohen, Z. -., & Cohen, J. J. (2013). Inflammablog: peer-to-peer online learning in immunology. Immunologic research, 55(1-3).
  More info

  Is it possible for students in different courses, at different academic levels, and at different universities to learn immunology together using the Internet? We teach a colloquium on inflammation for undergraduates at the University of Arizona and a lecture course on human immunology for graduate students and clinical and basic science fellows at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Students in these programs, being scattered about large campuses, have little time for student-directed discussion and peer interactions, and they never have the opportunity to meet students in the course in the other state. Instead of requiring the usual essays and term papers, we set up a blog (an online discussion group) for the two courses, and required all students to post, and comment on other posts, within and between the courses. Student writing is normally directed at a single reader, the instructor, which seems like a waste of talent; we encouraged peer exchanges. Furthermore, we were interested in observing the interactions between the Colorado students, who were older and sometimes experienced professionals, and the younger Arizonans. We used a blog because it is administratively impossible to enroll the students in two universities in a single courseware (learning management system) site. Blogging has offered insights into students' comfort with this form of social medium, and into the potential for this approach in light of the rapid adoption of blended and massively open online courses.

Presentations

• Cohen, Z. (2018, April). Medical School Teaching Innovation. Western Group on Educational Affairs, Association of American Medical Colleges. Denver, Colorado: AAMC.

Poster Presentations

• Stanescu, C. I., Cohen, Z., & Price, E. A. (2016, October). Physiology Undergraduate Curricular Changes in Response to Program Assessment. Arizona Physiological Society. Tucson, AZ: American Physiological Society.
• Cohen, Z., & Burd, G. D. (2016, October). Active Engagement in an Upper Divison Physiology of the Immune System Course: What We're Learning. Arizona Physiological Society. University of Arizona.
• Cohen, Z., & Stanescu, C. (2018, June). Small Changes, Large Rewards: How individualized emails increase performance in an upper division physiology course.. Physiology Majors Interest Group (PMIG). University of Arizona: American Physiological Society.
• Cohen, Z., & Stanescu, C. (2019, April). Small Changes, Large Rewards: How individualized emails increase performance in an upper division physiology course.. Experimental Biology. Orlando FL: American Physiological Society.
• Cohen, Z., Keen, D. A., Price, E. A., & Stanescu, C. I. (2018, Summer). Determining if Phys-MAPS is the right assessment tool for our curriculum. Physiology Majors Interest Group. Tucson, AZ.

Others

• Cohen, Z. (2018, August). How One Email From You Could Help Your Students Succeed. Chronical of Higher Education. https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-One-Email-From-You-Could/244223
• Cohen, Z. (2018, July). Small Changes, Large Rewards: How Individualized Emails Increase Classroom Performance. EVOLLLUTION. https://evolllution.com/attracting-students/retention/small-changes-large-rewards-how-individualized-emails-increase-classroom-performance/
• Cohen, Z. (2018, September). Small Ways to Help Students Succeed. Chronical of Higher Education. https://www.chronicle.com/article/Small-Ways-to-Help-Students/244515