My name is Ahmad Mohammed Kamal, and I’m excited to be entering my fourth year as an undergraduate student in Integrated Science at UBC, where I’m exploring the incredible diversity of the life sciences. I’ve had the privilege of being one of the inaugural Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (UTAs) for BIOL 200 and continue to be …
Monthly Archives: August 2025
TA Spotlight – Jackie DaSilva
Hi, I’m Jackie! I’m from Vaughan, Ontario and I moved to Vancouver in September 2023 to begin my Master of Science in Zoology at UBC. I’m now in my second year of studies and I conduct Biology Education Research (BER)—a branch of Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER) that explores how people learn within a specific field …
Teaching Spotlight – From Curiosity to Critique: Student Engagement with Generative Artificial Intelligence in BIOL 121
Vivienne Lam and undergraduate student Jiho Song recently completed a BIOL 448 education research project, in which they integrated the use of Generative AI (GenAI) into the BIOL 121 course and explored how students’ perceptions and usage of GenAI changed throughout the term. Below, Jiho and Vivienne describe why they chose to engage in this …