Ellie Rice Director, Quantitative & Science Center and Senior Teaching Professor of Biology
Education
B.A. Stanford University
Ph.D. Cornell University
Research
- Support of college student success in quantitative disciplines.
- Extension of research science into high school and middle school environments.
- Teacher professional development.
- Informal science education.
- Population genetics in the context of plant genetic diversity conservation.
Publications
- McDonald, K, K Brigatti, E. Rice, E Smith. C Liu. 2017. Newborn Screening: A Parents’ Handbook. Lancaster, PA: Franklin & Marshall College.
- Ghose, R, E. Rice, K Strauss. 2017. Glutaric Aciduria Type 1 (GA1): A Parents’ Handbook. Lancaster, PA: Franklin & Marshall College.
- Sentman, C, M Tembo, E. Rice, K. Strauss. 2015. Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: A Parents’ Handbook. Lancaster, PA: Franklin & Marshall College.
- Rice, EB. 2014. Genetic Engineering. Debating the Issues Series for middle school students. Marshall Cavendish. ~60p.
- Rice, EB and DR Ardia. 2014. Evolution. Debating the Issues Series for middle school students. Marshall Cavendish. ~60p.
- Eurich, C, PA Fields and EB Rice. 2012. Proteomics: Protein Identification Using Online Databases. American Biology Teacher 74(4):250-255.
- Rice, EB. 2007. Conservation in a Changing World: In-situ conservation of the Giant maize of Jala. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 54(4): 701-713.
- Rice, EB, M Krasny, ME Smith. 2006. Edible Genetics: Genetics taught with cucumbers, corn and tomatoes. National Science Teacher’s Association Press.
- Rice, EB. 2006. Conservation and Change: A Comparison of in-situ and ex-situ Conservation of Jala Maize Germplasm. Crop Science 46: 428-436.
- Ardia, DR, Rice EB. 2006. Heritability of Immune Function Varies across the Range of the Tree Swallow. Evolutionary Ecology 20: 491-500.
- Rice, EB, M Smale, JL Blanco. 1998. Farmers’ Use of Improved Seed Selection Practices in Mexican Maize: Evidence and Issues from the Sierra de Santa Marta. World Development 26 (9): 1625-1640.
- Smale, M, D Soleri, DA Cleveland, D Louette, EB Rice, JL Blanco, A Aguirre. 1998. Collaborative Plant Breeding as an Incentive for On-Farm Conservation of Genetic Resources: Economic Issues from Studies in Mexico. In Farmers, Gene Banks, and Crop Breeding: Economic Analyses of Diversity in Wheat, Maize, and Rice. M Smale, ed. Pp. 239-257. Boston, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers
- Rice, EB, L Godinez, O Erenstein. 1998. The Farming Systems of the Texizapan Watershed, Sierra de Santa Marta, Mexico. CIMMYT Natural Resources Group Co-Publication 98-01. Mexico DF: Mexico
- Heisy, PW, P Aquino, V Hernandez, E Rice. 1996. The Current World Wheat Situation in CIMMYT 1996. CIMMYT 1995/6 World Wheat Facts and Trends: Understanding Global Trends in the Use of Wheat Diversity and International Flows of Wheat Genetic Resources. Mexico DF: Mexico.
- Blanco JL, EB Rice, M Smale. 1996. A Rough Cut on Maize Diversity and Seed Selection. Practices in the Sierra Santa Marta. Video. Mexico DF: Mexico
Course Information
NSP 168 Food, Plants and Nutrition
PBH 374 Public Health Outreach: Writing Handbooks
BIO 110 Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Heredity
BIO 220 Principles of Physiology and Development Lab
INT xxx Experiential Elementary Science Teaching (EEST)