Michael Chorney
Palmyra,PA
Summary
Accomplished biology research investigator with nearly 40 years of teaching experience. Enthusiastic in the pursuit of identifying effective teaching approaches that promote content clarity and maximize the conveyance of complex bio-concepts. Excited about the prospect of incorporating emerging artificial intelligence (AI) platforms into biology education, alongside existing modalities. This offers an exciting element that has the potential to accelerate learning among students from high school to graduate school and in career development related to bio-education, clinical practice, and research.
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
Work History
Professor Emeritus of Biology
The Pennsylvania State University
01.2019 - Present
- Involved in tutoring and mentoring greater than 20 motivated students in achieving their career goals in biology
Professor of Biology
PSU Harrisburg
01.2014 - 01.2018
- Tasked with creating/directing a new biology program with an enrollment of 130 students aligned with the PSU college of medicine
Founding Chair of the Biology and Science Program
PSU Harrisburg
01.2016 - 01.2017
- (Responsible for the enhancement of course content (new courses added), faculty hiring (3 new hires), and outreach with respect to the emergent Biology and Science program
Advance From Assistant Professor to Full Professor With Tenure
Penn State University
01.1989 - 01.2013
- Company Overview: College of Medicine
- Hired to create a viable, funded research program in immunology
Associate Research Scientist
Yale University
01.1987 - 01.1989
- Company Overview: School of Medicine, Department of Human Genetics
- Initiate an academic career in the School of Medicine by broadening research vistas and applying newly acquired bench skills
Postdoctoral Fellowship
Yale University
01.1984 - 01.1987
- Company Overview: School of Medicine, Department of Human Genetics
- Learn and perfect the performance of technologies related to recombinant DNA technology
Education
PhD - Genetics
Cornell University
New York, NY01.1983
MS - Physiological Chemistry
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA01.1978
BS - Biology
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA05.1975
Skills
- Course development/design
- Program creation and oversight
- Creation and testing of teaching strategies
- Academic and grant writing
- Communications of complex biology concepts
- Biology research technologies
- Student engagement and mentorship
Awards
- Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award, 2015
- Technology Council of Central PA ‘Women in Tech’ Award, 2017
- Diversity and Educational Equity Committee Award for the Promotion of Campus Diversity, 2017
Academic Accomplishments
- Teacher with nearly 40yr of teaching experience at medical school, undergraduate, and high school levels
- Course director of multiple COM medical and graduate school basic science courses
- Co-originator of a fully Problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum at the COM
- Creator and Director of the Huck Life Sciences cross-campus Immunobiology Graduate Program
- Director of advanced immunology summer study program for medical students
- Science liaison to Lincoln and Cheyney Universities (HBCUs)
- Leader in outreach efforts to enhance minority student enrollment in COM degree programs
- Creator of an experimental High School Bioscience Curriculum, Susquehanna School District
- Originator of a PSU-wide online course in biochemistry (2016)
- Inaugural Chair of the Biology and Science Program, Penn State Harrisburg (2016)
- Creator of a fast-track pipeline for exceptional high school students interested in the biosciences
- Laboratory head maintaining grant-funded basic science and educational research (1990-2014)
- Awarded a prestigious National Institutes of Health Program Project focused on iron metabolism
- Co-recipient of the first NIH grant devoted to the search for cognition genes
- COM Faculty Organization President, Representative to PSU Senate, Advisor to PSU President Spanier
- Training of multiple MD/PhDs and the effective mentoring of a myriad of students
Timeline
Professor Emeritus of Biology
The Pennsylvania State University
01.2019 - Present
Founding Chair of the Biology and Science Program
PSU Harrisburg
01.2016 - 01.2017
Professor of Biology
PSU Harrisburg
01.2014 - 01.2018
Advance From Assistant Professor to Full Professor With Tenure
Penn State University
01.1989 - 01.2013
Associate Research Scientist
Yale University
01.1987 - 01.1989
Postdoctoral Fellowship
Yale University
01.1984 - 01.1987
PhD - Genetics
Cornell University
MS - Physiological Chemistry
Lehigh University
BS - Biology
Lehigh University
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