Associate Professor
Mark McGinley is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Honors College and the Department of Biological Sciences. Originally from Thousand Oaks California, he earned a BA in Zoology from University of California, Santa Barbara, and MS in Biology from Kansas State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Utah. Dr. McGinley began at Tech in 1991 and moved to the Honors College in 2005 where he is heavily involved in the NHH degree. Dr. McGinley has scholarly interests in plant and animal ecology, science education, environmental issues, and marine conservation.
In the Honors College he teaches Honors Integrated Science & Lab, Ecology for NHH, and a variety of environmental-based seminars. In the Biology Department he teaches Introductory Biology, Field Ecology, and Tropical Marine Biology (in Jamaica). Dr. McGinley likes to add a field component to his courses whenever possible.
Most of Dr. McGinley’s free time revolves around scuba diving, so he is often teaching courses, planning his next trip, or traveling (recent trips include Solomon Islands and Fiji). In the summers he teaches marine biology, scuba, and sailing on a sailboat in the Caribbean (British Virgin Islands and Windward Islands). Dr. McGinley enjoys sports and has served as Faculty Advisor and coach of the Tech Women’s Volleyball Club since its inception.