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Brooke Bourdelat-Parks
Science Educator
bbparks@bscs.org
Brooke Bourdélat-Parks joined BSCS in August 2007 as part of the Center for Curriculum Development. She is currently working on a project to develop information for research scientists interested in being involved in science education, as well as a module for middle school students on drug abuse.
Prior to joining BSCS, Brooke served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oxford College of Emory University and at Oglethorpe University, her alma mater. She taught a variety of courses at these schools, including Genetics, Biomedical Ethics, Cell Biology, and Anatomy and Physiology.
During her postdoctoral training, Brooke was a part of the Fellowships in Research and Science Teaching (FIRST) program at Emory University. This program focuses on the development of innovative teaching skills in fellows, in addition to a traditional research experience. As part of the program, Brooke helped to develop and teach a bioethics course for Morehouse College’s Summer Academy for incoming freshmen. She also performed research on dopamine beta-hydroxylase, the protein that converts the neurotransmitter dopamine to norepinephrine.
Brooke completed her Ph.D. at Georgia Institute of Technology, where her research focused on the thermodynamic properties of structural differences in DNA and RNA.
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