Professor and Chair of Biology
 Faculty Affiliate in Environmental Studies
 Office: Center for the Sciences Room 332

 Phone: 608 363-2219
 Email: grossman@beloit.edu

Yaffa Grossman is a professor in and chair of the Beloit College Biology Department, a faculty member in the Environmental Studies program, and Director of the Sustainability Fellows Program at Beloit.  She is a physiological plant ecologist with research interests in plant carbon allocation, growth analysis,modeling, and sustainability.  She is also beginning to explore restoration ecology in the urban context. She has strong interests in interdisciplinary education, has chaired the Environmental Studies program at Beloit, and is co-PI on a Keck/Project Kaleidoscope Facilitating Interdisciplinary Learning grant.  She teaches Botany, Biometrics, Environmental Biology, and Ecology, and topics courses in physiological plant ecology, conservation biology, environmental sustainability, and environment and society.  She enjoys working with students in the classroom and on research projects.  She received the Underkofler Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, awarded by Alliant Corporation, April 2005.

Education

• A.B., Mathematics, Amherst College, 1978
• M.S., Botany, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1981
• Ph.D., Botany, University of California, Davis, 1993

Positions held

• Research Assistant, Public Affairs Office, Ecological Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1987-1989
• Post Graduate Researcher, Department of Pomology and Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, 1993-1996   
• Lecturer, Department of Agronomy and Range Science, University of California, Davis, 1996
• Assistant Professor, Biology Department, Beloit College, Beloit WI, 1996 - 2002
• Associate Professor, Biology Department, Beloit College, Beloit WI, 2002-2008    
• Visiting Fellow, Enhancing International Science Networks Program, Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Victoria, Australia, Oct. 2002              
• McMaster Fellow, CSIRO-Plant Industry, Darwin, Australia, Oct.-Dec. 2002    
• Chair, Environmental Studies Program, Beloit College, Beloit WI, 2003-2009         
• Chair, Department of Biology, Beloit College, Beloit WI, 2007-2009         
• Professor, Biology Department, Beloit College, Beloit WI, 2008-Present     
• Honorary Fellow, University of Wisconsin Arboretum, Madison, WI, 2009-2011
• Director, Beloit College Sustainability Fellows Program, 2010-Present

Courses

• BIOL 121. Botany
• BIOL 247. Biometrics
• BIOL 372. Ecology
• BIOL 387. Biology Capstone: Senior Manuscript
• ENVS 280. Conservation Biology and Restoration Ecology
• ENVS 380. Senior Colloquium in Environmental Studies