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Nikea Pittman

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor
GECO Committee member
(PhD – University of Florida)

ACCEPTING TEACHING ASSISTANTS

Trained Faculty Mentor endorsed by Office of Graduate Ed UNC Chapel Hill

standard safe zone training

RESEARCH

Dr. Nikea Pittman (she/her) is a Teaching Assistant Professor. She is a trained structural biologist and virologist, who now studies STEM education full-time. Her research focuses on the following themes: 1) improving training pathways for rising scientists 2) strengthening community for marginalized scientists and 3) teaching protein structure/function in early career classrooms. Students, postdocs, or staff who seek mentored teaching experience may join Nikea as a teaching assistant (full semester) or as an instructional assistant (partial semester). She also provides exposure to STEM education research through projects in curriculum design and impact evaluation/assessments.

TEACHING

  • Introduction to biochemistry course series
    • BIOC107 and BIOC108
    • Undergraduate
    • Pre-nursing/pre-allied health
  • Director, biochemistry coil
    • MTEC 2.0
    • 1st and 2nd year medical students
    • Medical education

HONORS & AWARDS

  • CourseSource Writing Studio, 2022
  • Burroughs Wellcome Fund PDEP Awardee, 2021
  • Diversity Award Recipient, UNC Office of the Provost, 2021
  • SPIRE Postdoctoral Scholar, NIH K12 IRACDA Program, 2019

Contact

Office: 3090 Genetic Medicine

120 Mason Farm Road, CB# 7260
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7260
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Nikea Pittman

  • Biochemistry and Biophysics

  • Address

    120 Mason Farm Rd,

    3090 Genetic Medicine Bldg.

    CB # 7260

    Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7260