Shazia Ahmed, Ph.D.

Contact

sahmed@twu.edu
940-898-2390
ASSC 329

Biography

Dr. Shazia Ahmed earned her PhD in molecular biology from Texas Woman’s University in 2001 after which she went on to work as a senior DNA analyst in BioSynthesis Inc. Dr. Ahmed joined TWU in 2004 and is now a Clinical Professor of Biology and she teaches Human Biology and Excellence in Teaching in addition to supervising teaching labs. Dr. Ahmed earned Senior Fellow status from the Higher Education Academy/Advance HE as an acknowledgement of her influence in promoting better teaching pedagogy among colleagues and junior faculty (https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/fellowship/senior-fellowship).

Education

Ph.D., Molecular Biology, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas
M.Sc., Genetics, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

Expertise

Pedagogy Improvement; STEM Pedagogy Improvement; Graduate Students as Teachers Training; Course Development

Latest Articles

AI, AI Everywhere, Which One Do I Use?
Academic Leader (2024)
Bhooma Srinivasan, Karen Dunlap, Shazia Ahmed

Effects of the Pandemic on Working Mothers: Exploring Perspectives from the United States and South Africa.
Discover Psychology (2024)
Lisa Rosen, Shannon Scott, Shukla Roshni, Darian Poe, Shazia Ahmed

Too Tired to Not Reconsider the Way We Work: Mothers' Lessons Learned Teleworking during COVID-19
Personnel Review (2024)
Lisa Rosen, Shannon Scott, Roshni Shukla, Darian Poe, Michelle Honorgohar

Seven Ways to Help Burn-Out Faculty
Academic Leader (2024)
Shazia Ahmed, Claire Sahlin

Let's Take a Poll: Working Towards a More Equitable Classroom
Faculty Focus (2023)
Ann M. Davis, Shazia A. Ahmed

Seven Ways to help Burned-Out Faculty
Academic Leader (2022)
Shazia Ahmed, Claire L Sahlin

Tools for Online Transition of Core Science Labs
Advances in Biology Laboratory Education (2022)
Mandy Biggers, Shazia Ahmed

HSF1 induces RNA polumerase II synthesis of ribosomal RNA in S. cerevisiae during nitrogen deprivation
Current Genetics (2021)
Arjuna Vallabhaneni, M Kabashi, M Haymowicz, K Bhatt, V Wayman

Why you should be a selfish instructor
Faculty Focus (2021)
Shazia Ahmed, Juliet Spencer

A writing-to-learn approach for improving evaluation of science web sources
American Biology Teacher (2020)
Graham Scott, Shazia Ahmed

Teaching through COVID
Science Education and Civic Engagement: An International Journal (2020)
Maria Serrano, Shazia Ahmed

Fostering Future Faculty: How Chairs Can support Graduate Teaching Assistants
Department Chair (2020)
Lisa Rosen, Shazia Ahmed

Heating up enzyme kinetics: A safe, inexpensive, and quantitative inquiry activity
American Biology Teacher (2019)
Kushal Bhatt, Ann M. Davis, Shazia A. Ahmed

A growth Mindset: Essential for Student and Faculty Success
Faculty Focus (2019)
L. Rosen, Shazia Ahmed

Engaging the entire Learning Cycle to Ignite Enthusiasm and Learning
Faculty Focus (2019)
D. Tennakoon, N. Raut, Shazia Ahmed

Comparative study of stomata from diverse plant lineage
Texas Journal of Microscopy (2018)
Urjitha Vardhineni, Shazia Ahmed, Amy Jo Hammett

Books

Principles of Biology: Laboratory manual, 9th edition
CAJE Press (2018)
Shazia Ahmed

Principles of Biology: Laboratory manual, 8th edition
CAJE Press (2017)
Shazia Ahmed

Recent Presentations

Student's Perspective on Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education
Lily Conference in Austin: Evidence based Teaching and Learning (2024)
Poster | Gretchen Busl, Shazia Ahmed, Adalvan Martins

The Productivity Paradox: Working with AI
Lily Conference in Austin: Evidence based Teaching and Learning (2024)
Podium | Bhooma Srinivasan, Shazia Ahmed

What Teaching Assistants Want: Implications for Professional Development
BioTAP Conference (2024)
Podium | Lisa A Rosen, Shazia Ahmed

Balancing It All during the Pandemic: Workload for Parents
Southwestern Psychological Association (2023)
Poster | Hsuan A Kung, Lisa A Rosen, Shannon Scott, Shazia Ahmed

Not Quite a Cure
Lily Conference in Austin: Evidence based Teaching and Learning (2023)
Poster | Mary A Berger, Shazia A Ahmed

Baby Steps Towards Accessibility
Teaching and Learning Symposium, Texas Woman's University (2023)
Round Table | Shazia A Ahmed, Youlonda FitzGerald

Food Labs
TWU Assessment Summit (2022)
Round Table | Shazia Ahmed

Personality Styles & Effective Communication
Center of Student Research Spring 2022 Workshop Series (2022)
Faculty Workshop | Shazia Ahmed, Youlonda FitzGerald, Samanthi Kottegoda, Maria Serrano

Free and Low Cost Solutions for Engaging Students with Instant Polling
OEP@TWU, Open pedagogy Community (2022)
Podium | Ann M. Davis, Shazia A. Ahmed

Inclusive Classroom
TWU-PRIME Academy (2022)
Podium | Shazia Ahmed, Nasrin Kohan

Harmonizing SOS _ Workplace personality
School of Sciences faculty Retreat (2022)
Faculty Workshop | Youlonda FitzGerald, Maria Serrano, Samanthi Kottegoda, Shazia Ahmed

Getting Started with Open Education Resources
Teaching and Learning Symposium, Texas Woman's University (2021)
Podium | Shazia Ahmed, Jackie Hoermann-Elliott, Amanda Zerangue

Transitioning Biology Laboratory Online: An Instructor's Experience & Reflection
Virtual Conference of the Association of Biology Laboratory Education (2021)
Poster | Mandy Biggers, Shazia Ahmed

Time management
Classroom Management Workshop Series by Biology TWU (2020)
Faculty Workshop | Shaumarie Tanner, Amy Jo Hammett, Shazia A Ahmed

Best Practices of GTAs
New Graduate Teaching Assistant Orientation (2019)
Podium | Shazia A Ahmed, Lisa A Rosen

Training our future faculty
Lily Conference in Austin: Evidence based Teaching and Learning (2019)
Poster | Lisa Rosen, Shazia Ahmed

Pennies for a Cause
STAR Symposium (2019)
Poster | Deepani A Teenakoon, Shazia A Ahmed

Comparative Study of Stomata from Diverse Plant Lineage
Texas Society for Microscopy Annual Meeting (2019)
Poster | Urgita Vardhineni, Shazia Ahmed, Amy Jo A Hammett

Student Engagement in Health Science Classes.
The Teaching Professor Conference (2019)
Poster | Shazia A Ahmed, Deepani Tenakoon

Training our Future Faculty: What Graduate Teaching Assistants want
Texas Woman's University Teaching and Learning Symposium (2019)
Podium | Shazia A Ahmed, Lisa A Rosen

Training our Future Faculty: What Graduate Teaching Assistants want
First year English Composition Workshop (2019)
Faculty Workshop | Shazia A Ahmed, Lisa A Rosen

Student predictions as a means of conceptual change in biology.
AAC&U 2019 Transforming STEM Higher Education (2019)
Poster | Ann Davis, Prapti Mody, Mengjie Cao, Tina Gumienny, Shazia Ahmed

Learn by Doing
Pioneer Research at the Mall (2019)
Poster | Mary Berger, Sukhbir Kaur, Shazia Ahmed

Comparative Study of Stomata from Diverse Plant Linages
Texas Woman's University Pioneer Research at the Mall (2018)
Poster | Urgita Vardhineni, Shazia A Ahmed, Amy Jo A Hammeett

Encouraging experiential education in graduate instructors.
47th Annual Conference of National Society for Experiential Educators (NSEE) (2018)
Round Table | Shazia Ahmed, Lisa Rosen

Experiential experimental design
American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators (ASMCUE) (2018)
Paper | Shazia Ahmed

Inferences from application of teaching pedagogues to a real-life classroom
QEP showcase (2018)
Poster | Prapti Mody, Shazia Ahmed

Reflection on application of teaching pedagogues to a real-life classroom
QEP showcase (2017)
Poster | Prapti Mody, Shazia Ahmed

Professional Affiliations

• Association for Biology Laboratory Education
• National Association of Biology Teachers
• Society for College Science Teachers
• Texas Society of Microscopy

Honors & Awards

• Campus Leader With a Heart, TWU (2022)
• CAS mentor, Texas Woman's University (2021)
• CAS fellow, Texas Woman's University (2021)
• Pioneer Teaching and Learning Academy Mentor, Texas Woman's University (2020)
• Pioneer Teaching and Learning Academy Scholar, Texas Woman's University (2019)
• Scientific Teaching Fellow, NSF and HHMI (2018)
• Experiential Education Instructor, Experiential Education Academy (2018)
• Scholar PLTA, Texas Woman's University (2018)
• BioTAP Member, NSF (2018)
• Travel grant, Texas Woman's University (2018)
• Service Award, Texas Woman's University (2018)
• Small grant Award, Texas Woman's University (2018)