Emily Weigel
By: Kristin Baird Rattini | Categories: Alumni Achievements
PhD BIO '10, ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL
IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
As an ecologist, Emily Weigel seeks to understand how individuals are shaped by their environment. It’s a perspective that informs and enriches her courses in the School of Biological Sciences and her role as an academic advisor. It also led to her winning both the 2019 Undergraduate Educator Award and Undergraduate Academic Advising Award. Weigel’s selection as a University System of Georgia Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Fellow gave her the opportunity to design and develop a classroom-based research project and sharpen analytical skills to then pass along to her students and advisees. Her engagement with her students is evident in such courses as “Extreme Atlanta,” an interdisciplinary examination of local environmental changes and their impact on organisms (including humans), and how they are tied to global climate change. She is equally engaged with her advisees, responding to calls for assistance after hours and empowering them to succeed on campus and in the working world.
