Duncan Davis-Hall
Duncan Davis-Hall
Teaching Assistant Professor
Duncan teaches for the Quantitative Biosciences and Engineering interdisciplinary undergraduate program, focusing on senior engineering design and quantitative biology. His position in the Engineering, Design, & Society Department aligns with his passion for engineering design and engineering education. Duncan was a two-time recipient of the Bioengineering Department’s Outstanding Graduate Student Award and received the Student Senate Excellence Award’s Spirit of Anschutz while attending the University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus. Duncan earned the NIH F31 Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute during his graduate research and produced three peer-reviewed publications, including articles in Biofabrication and Biomedical Engineering Education. He has presented his research at annual conferences for the Society for Biomaterials, the Biomedical Engineering Society, and the American Society for Engineering Education.
Duncan’s teaching experience includes MATLAB and Python programming, biomaterials laboratories, and design and prototyping (including CAD and 3D printing). As a professor at Mines, Duncan created and piloted the QBE Senior Design course and initiated the BioBuilders@Mines makerspace with QBE students.
Education:
PhD in Bioengineering, University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus
MS in Bioengineering, University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus
BS in Biomedical Engineering, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo
Contact
General Research Lab Annex 122
303.384.2779
duncan.davis-hall@mines.edu
Alina Handorean is a Teaching Professor in EDS with more than 15 years of experience teaching a wide range of biology, chemistry and fundamental environmental engineering classes at the middle school through graduate levels. Dr. Handorean earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Bucharest, Romania and her M.A. and PhD in Chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis before completing a post-doctoral fellowship in cancer biology at the University of Colorado’s Health Sciences campus. Prior to joining Mines, Dr Handorean was a Research Faculty/Lecturer in the Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research interests are Environmental Engineering (Drinking Water, Bioaerosols), Chemistry, Cancer Biology, and Pedagogy, and she’s passionate about teaching user-centered design, communication skills, and teamwork in her Cornerstone classes.
I have spent the last ten years pursuing biology from quantitative perspectives. First as a Mathematical and Computational Biology major at Harvey Mudd College and then as a PhD student in the biophysics group of Rob Phillips at Caltech, I have learned and applied many ways in which quantitative approaches can be brought to bear on biological problems. During my time in graduate school, I took advantage of many opportunities to teach physical biology both on and off campus, nurturing my passion for teaching and mentoring. My teaching has taken me to many far-flung locations including the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea. With this background in teaching quantitative, mathematical, and computational biology to many different audiences, I look forward to settling down at Mines and instilling in students an appreciation of biology far beyond that of just memorization, but as a discipline that can be approached critically and rigorously.