Jessica Dunleavy, a lecturer in biomedical engineering, focuses on undergraduate learning and success and has received multiple fellowships from the Collaborative Teaching Fellowship Program jointly run by Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She works to improve educational access and is an active proponent of under-represented groups in science, continuing to advocate for scientific training in primary education as she did throughout her graduate and postdoctoral years.
Dunleavey began teaching at Johns Hopkins in the Cell & Tissue Engineering Lab course in 2020. This hands-on learning experience provides undergraduate students the opportunity to work with living material and apply the scientific method to research early in their science careers. Her background as a classically trained biologist using animal and cell-based modeling will be applied to course design in the Translational Cell & Tissue and Immunoengineering focus areas, integrating student-directed learning goals and fostering independent thinking through active learning methodologies. She also contributes to the department as an active member of the undergraduate curriculum committee.
She received her BS in Biology at Muhlenberg College and her PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.