{"id":5830,"date":"2017-01-30T08:12:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T13:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/?p=5830"},"modified":"2019-02-17T12:54:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T17:54:20","slug":"sarah-smiley-walters-joins-stetson-as-brown-visiting-teacher-scholar-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/2017\/01\/5830\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Smiley-Walters joins Stetson as Brown Teacher-Scholar Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5838 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/smiley-walters-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"244\" \/>Sarah Smiley-Walters started as the Brown Teacher-Scholar Fellow in Biology in January 2017. She recently completed her Ph.D. thesis which was titled \u201cInteractions between Pigmy Rattlesnakes (Sistrurus miliarius) and a Suite of Prey Species: A Study of Prey Behavior and Variable Venom Toxicity.\u201d At Stetson she is currently teaching comparative vertebrate anatomy and introductory biology. As a teacher-scholar, Dr. Smiley-Walters conducts collaborative research on snake ecology with Stetson undergraduates and with Terence Farrell, Brown Fellow and professor of biology. Dr. Smiley-Walters also has expertise in small mammal ecology and has served as an American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) \u2013 American Institute of Biological Science Public Policy Fellow in DC. She currently is the Chair of ASM\u2019s Student Science Policy Award committee. Dr. Smiley-Walters has maintained an interest in pedagogy and, as a graduate student, served on a departmental curriculum committee and helped revise biology lab manuals. Sarah earned her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, an M.S. from the University of South Florida, and dual B.S. degrees from Florida State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Smiley-Walters started as the Brown Teacher-Scholar Fellow in Biology in January 2017. She recently completed her Ph.D. thesis which was titled \u201cInteractions between Pigmy Rattlesnakes (Sistrurus miliarius) and a Suite of Prey Species: A Study of Prey Behavior and Variable Venom Toxicity.\u201d At Stetson she is currently teaching comparative vertebrate anatomy and introductory biology. 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