Texas Tech University

Ken Griffith

Assistant Director - Teaching, Learning & Professional Development Center and Director – STEM Teaching, Engagement & Pedagogy (STEP) Program

Email: ken.griffith@ttu.edu

Ken serves as the Director for the STEM Teaching, Engagement & Pedagogy (STEP) Program. Additionally, he frequently assists with the organization and presentation of workshops and conferences on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and Discipline-based Education Research (DBER). Ken serves nationally in leadership roles in the Network of STEM Education Centers (NSEC) and Professional Organizational Development in Higher Education.

Ken is a contributing author for multiple textbook publishers in Anatomy and Physiology and is an instructor in the Department of Biological Sciences (DBS) at Texas Tech where he also serves on the Faculty Anatomy and Physiology Curriculum Committee.  Ken is a Fellow in the STEM Center for Outreach, Research and Education (STEM-CORE), is a 2016 graduate of the TTU President's Leadership Institute and sits on the university's student conduct hearing panel.  He is also on the advisory board for the McNair Scholars Program and The Center for Transformative Undergraduate Experiences (TrUE). 

Ken was named a TTU/Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Graduate Doctoral Scholar in 2011 and was recognized for Excellence in Teaching in 2013 and 2014 by the Center for the Integration of Science Education and Research (CISER).  In addition to teaching courses that include: Cell Biology, Experimental Cell Biology, Genetics, Biological Pedagogy and Human Physiology, he has also facilitated classroom management and technology-based workshops around the TTU campus. 

Ken is a three-time Red Raider, holding a B.A. in Psychology, with a B.S. and Ph.D. in Biology. His training and early research focused on the impacts of environmental radiation on mammalian chromosomes and the cellular signaling processes associated with human addiction. His current research focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) education research and specifically, how Evidence-Based Instructional Research (EBIR) can affect STEM student persistence. Ken enjoys free time with his wife Pamela Ferguson and dog Phoebe and is obsessed with all things cycling.

 

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Teaching, Learning, & Professional Development Center

  • Address

    University Library Building, Room 136, Mail Stop 2044, Lubbock, TX 79409-2004
  • Phone

    806.742.0133
  • Email

    tlpdc@ttu.edu