Kathleen joined Episcopal in 1992 after working for George Washington University and the National Institutes of Health, where she conducted AIDS and cancer research. At Episcopal, she teaches Biology, Anatomy and Physiology, and Genetics, and coaches girls’ JV tennis and winter track. Kathleen is part of the Dalrymple Dorm team. Kathleen says, “I want to engage young minds, captivate them, and make them love the subject. We are partners in the learning process, and I try to make science relevant to their lives so they see the value in what they are learning.”
Kathleen was awarded the 2007 Frontier Fellowship from the American Physiological Society, a yearlong fellowship to enhance teaching by inquiry. The fellowship includes a summer research job at Georgetown University. Kathleen was also awarded a teacher grant to participate in marine research. This was a maiden voyage to demonstrate the National Museum of Natural History’s DROP (Deep Reef Observation Project), part of the Global Genome Initiative (GGI) at Substation Curaçao on the research vessel Chapman, with Scientist Carole Baldwin in August 2015.
Kathleen and her husband, Doug, live on campus and have three sons, Scott ’08, Quinn ’12, and Schillo Tshuma ’12.