Tanya Dewey

Tanya Dewey is an assistant professor of biology and associate chair of undergraduate studies at Colorado State University. She has a diverse research interests, including education research and primary research on the impact of accurate species delimitation on conservation and management issues. She studies North American bats, including the impact of white-nose syndrome, invasive fungal disease that is devastating bat populations in eastern North America. She has also been involved in spatial ecology research on Myotis to try to understand their susceptibility to white nose syndrome.

Dewey also is the director of the Animal Diversity Web and is particularly interested in the impact of authentic, data-driven inquiries on student engagement and learning gains in biology classrooms. As a QUBES Mentor, she works with faculty across the United States to improve integration of quantitative and data-driven skills into undergraduate classrooms. She works with dozens of undergraduate educators every year to provide and assess the value of writing-in-the-discipline experiences in natural history.