Robert Reinsvold
Assistant Professor
- Ph.D.: Purdue University
- M.S.: Colorado State University
- B.A.: Humboldt State University
Contact information
- E-mail: robert.reinsvold@unco.edu
- Phone: (970) 351-2716
- Fax: (970) 351-2335
- Office: Ross Hall 1536
- Office hours: by appointment
Courses taught
- BIO 110 (Principles of Biology)
- BIO 111 (Survey of Organismal Biology)
- BIO 513 (TA Developmental Workshop)
- BOT 333/533 (Morphogenesis of Algae and Fungi)
- BOT 560 (Plant Ecology) SCI 291 (Scientific Writing)
- MIND 294 (Revolutions in Science)
Links to other Websites
Research Interests and Professional Activities
Research in Biological Education
- Strategies students use to learn life cycles and other complex linear sequences
- Effective use of educational technology to promote learning of biological concepts
- Assessment of instructional time devoted to plants compared to animals
- Comparison of K-12 biology instruction to the emerging national and state science standards
- Assessment of relative cognitive structure of teachers in different areas of biology
- Origins of misconceptions in biology, especially related to plants and microorganisms
- Relative knowledge bases of botanical verses zoological concepts of K-12 teachers
- Comparison of pre-service and in-service teacher education related to plant biology
Research in Fungal Ecology.
- Geographical distribution of Amanita bisporingea, a toxic mushroom recently iscovered in Colorado
- Survival of vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in stored topsoil
- Decomposer specificity in adjacent lodgepole pine and mountain meadow ecosystems
- Mycorrhizal status of aspen, Populus tremuloides.
- Seed viability after long term storage
- Effect of fire on mycorrhizal innoculum potential and rhizobial activity
Academic Awards/Professional Honors
- 2000 Samuel N. Postlethwait Award from Botanical Society of America for Exceptional Teaching and National Leadership in Efforts to Promote the Effective Use of Plants to Teach Biological Concepts. (National Award)
- 2000 Runner-up for Four-Year College Biology Teaching Award for NABT (National Association of Biology Teachers)
- 2000 Summer Research Professor, Academic Affairs and Graduate School, UNC
- 1999 Mortar Board Favorite Professor, UNC
- 1999 Summer Research Professor, Academic Affairs and Graduate School, UNC
- 1999 College Excellence in Advising and Services Award, College of Arts and Sciences, UNC
- 1996 Commendation for Service to Students by women of Alpha Sigma Alpha Sorority
- 1994 Recognized by Weld County District 6 School Board for Exceptional Service in Promoting Educational Technology
- 1987 Full Memb, Sigma Xi
Recent Publications
- Reinsvold, R. J. 1999. Why study plants? Why not? Science Activities 36:3-5.
- Reinsvold, R. J. 1998. Diversity of Plants, Fungi, and Microbes. Second Ed. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., Dubuque, IA.
- Reinsvold, R.J. 1997. What your life will be like for the first years. Chapter 2 In: G. Uno (ed.) Handbook on teaching undergraduate science courses: A survival training manual. A user's guide to developing quality courses in under undergraduate biology. University of Oklahoma Printing Services. (Soon to be published by Saunders College Publishing)
- Reinsvold, R. J. and P. E. Pope. 1987. Combined effect of soil nitrogen and phosphorus on nodulation and growth of Robinia pseudoacacia. Can. J. For. Res. 17:964-969.
- Reinsvold, R. J. and F. B. Reeves. 1986. The mycorrhizae of Juniperus osteosperma: Identity of the vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal symbiont and resynthesis of the VA mycorrhizae. Mycologia 78:109-113.
- Reinsvold, Robert J. and Phillip E. Pope. 1986. Use of biological dinitrogen-fixers for amelioration of minesoils. pp. 69-83 In: C. A. Kolar (ed) Proceedings of the Fifth Better Reclamation with Trees Conference. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. 5-7 June 1985.
- Reinsvold, Robert J. and Phillip E. Pope. 1985. Association of Robinia pseudoacacia and Rhizobium: Potential nitrogen accretion. pp. 245-250 In: J. O Dawson and K. A. Majerus (eds). Proceedings of the Fifth Central Hardwood Forest Conference. University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. 15-17 April 1985.
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