Dr. Gordon Uno  

Professor of Plant Biology and David Ross Boyd Professor of Botany
Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology
The University of Oklahoma

Dr. Gordon E. Uno joined the Department of Botany and Microbiology at the University of Oklahoma in 1979, was appointed a David Ross Boyd Professor of Botany in 1997, and was the Department’s chair from 2000-2015. He has authored or co-authored 22 textbooks and supplemental resources including: Principles of Botany; Handbook for Developing Undergraduate Science Courses; Biological Science: an Ecological Approach; and Inquiring About Plants. He was a Program Officer in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation (1998-2000), was awarded Honorary Membership by the National Association of Biology Teachers in 2001, and was NABT President in 1995.  He became a Fellow of the AAAS in 2000, and he has received one national, two state, and three university-level teaching awards.

Dr. Uno has taught over 15,000 undergraduates and has led many faculty development workshops for college, university, and secondary science instructors.  He served on the Board of Directors for the American Institute of Biological Sciences for nine years, is currently PI or co-PI on three NSF RCN-UBE awards, and was the Chair of the College Board committee that revised the Advanced Placement (AP) Biology course and exams.  He has served as a faculty mentor for the AACU’s High Impacts Institute, was the initial organizer for the Gordon Research Conference on Undergraduate Biology Education Research (the only biology education conference in the GRC portfolio), and is currently the President of the Botanical Society of America.