Dr. Susan Singer
Rollins College, Professor, Biology, Provost & VP for Academic Affairs
Susan Rundell Singer is Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at Rollins
College. Previously, she was Division Director for Undergraduate Education at NSF and
Laurence McKinley Gould Professor, in the Biology and Cognitive Science at Carleton
College. She pursues a career that integrates science and education focused on
improving undergraduate education at scale. Her current, NSF-funded research is
focused on networks of organizations working to advance undergraduate STEM
education. In addition to a PhD in biology from Rensselaer, she completed a teacher
certification program in New York State. Susan is a AAAS fellow and received both the
American Society of Plant Biology teaching award and Botanical Society of America
Charles Bessey award. She directed Carleton’s Perlman Center for Learning and
Teaching, was an NSF program officer in Biology, and is a co-author of the Vision and
Change in Undergraduate Biology report and two introductory biology texts. Susan has
served on numerous boards, including the NSF EHR Advisory Committee, Biological
Sciences Curriculum Study Board, the American Society of Plant Biologists Education
Foundation Board, the Botanical Society Board of Directors, and was a member of the
National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) Board on
Science Education. She is past chair of the AAAS Education Section and serves on
both the NASEM Board on Life Sciences and Roundtable on Systematic Change in
Undergraduate STEM Education. She has participated in six NASEM studies, including
chairing the committees that authored America’s Lab Report, Promising Practices in
STEM Undergraduate Education, and Discipline-based Education Research.