Marion Field Fass

Professor of Biology
And
Health and Society

fassm@beloit.edu
608-363-2784

Schedule
Interests
Projects
Classes
Presentations
Publications
Education
Memberships
Awards
CV

Schedule
On sabbatical, September 2008 – August 2009
Please contact me by email
fassm@beloit.edu

Interests

I’m interested in the intersection of public health, sustainability and environmental factors that lead to the emergence of new diseases.  I’m intrigued with the interdisciplinary perspectives necessary to understand these relationships, and the opportunities to build curricula for undergraduate students that combine scientific investigations with social and cultural understanding and that motivate students to work for social justice.

My research has focused on the measurement of community health needs and on methods of assessment of student learning.  I presently am the PI of a grant from the Teagle Foundation to investigate the relationships between learning in the major and all college goals.

I’ve recently taught courses on Slow Food that combine a focus on nutrition, sustainability, ecology and public health. (Beloit College Magazine, Summer 2008)

Projects

Beloit College Health and Society Major and Minor

Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities

Teagle Foundation Assessment Grant

BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium
Microbes Count!! Edited by John J. Jungck, Marion Field Fass and Ethel S. Stanley

Book project: Human Biology and Global Health Marion Field Fass, Ethel S. Stanley and Margaret Waterman

African Universities Responding to HIV/AIDS  2003, Beloit Magazine Story

Classes

Biology 215: Emerging Infectious Diseases

Human Biology: A Workshop Approach

First Year Seminar SLOW FOOD   

Sociology 275:  Health, Medical Care and Society 

Selected Presentations - Full list

“Public Health Major: Interdisciplinary, Experiential and International,” AAC&U Public Health Institute July 14, 2008, Arlington, VA   Slides linked AACUFassPublicHealth.pdf

“Slow Food: A SENCER Model on Nutrition and Sustainability,” Presented at the SENCER Capital Hill Symposium, Washington, DC, April 15, 2008.

“Making Sense of the City: Developing Public Health Perspectives for Study Abroad,” AAC&U Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 24, 2008.

“Assessing Value Added in the Liberal Arts,” WAICU-AAC&U LEAP Conference, St Norbert College, DePere, WI, November 8, 2007.  With Dean Pape.

“Asking questions about public health: A SENCER strategy for community engagement,” SENCER Summer Institute, Portland, Maine, 8/4/2007.

“Power, politics, the poor and public health: a local case study and global comparisons.” Wisconsin Health Education Network Annual Meeting, Madison, Wi, May 2006.

“Deciphering the AIDS Epidemic,” Women and Health Annual Lecture, Center for Health Policy and Ethics, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, 9/8/2004.

“Globalizing the Microbiology Curriculum with Case Studies: Teaching as is Microbiology Matters” American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA 5/26/2004.

“The tools of freedom,” Phi Beta Kappa Presidential address, Beloit College,5/15/2004. 

“Teaching Science, Exploring Controversy, Taking Action: Perspectives on Global Education,” Panel presentation with Sheryl Broverman, Duke University and John Mecham, Meredith College, Association of American Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 1/23/ 2004, Washington, DC.

Publications
Jungck, John R, Fass, Marion Field, and Stanley, Ethel, Editors, Microbes Count!: Problem Posing, Problem Solving and Peer Persuasion in Microbiology, ASM Press, 2003

Fass, Marion Field, “Teaching Emerging Diseases: A strategy for succeeding with non-majors,”  Microbiology Education, Vol 1, No. 1, May, 2000.

Fass, Marion Field , “Using the Internet to Enhance Biology Education:  Suggestions for the Novice”  Bioscene:Journal of College Biology Teaching, 24(2): August 1998, 7-12.

Moriskey, D. E., DeMuth, N.M., Fass, M. F., Green, L. W., and Levine, D.M., "Evaluation of Family Health Education for Long Term Control of High Blood Pressure."  Health Education Monographs, 12(1): 35-51, 1985.

Fass, Marion Field, Vahldieck, Linda M. and Meyer, Daniel, Teaching Patient Education to Residents, Society of Family Medicine, Kansas City, MO, 1983.

Education
BA, University of Pennsylvania, Biology
ScD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Memberships

American Public Health Association
American Society for Microbiology
Wisconsin Health Education Network
Beloit African American Infant Mortality Coalition

• Author of SENCER Model Course, SLOW FOOD, August 2007.
• Rotary Club Teacher of the Month, March 2007, Beloit, WI
• Underfkoeffler Teaching Award, Beloit College, May 2006
• "Excellence in Public Health Policy" Award, Wisconsin Association Local Health Departments and Boards of Health, October 2001.
• Beloit Tribute to Women 1999 Award for Excellence in Education, Beloit, WI, 1999.
• Phee Boon Kang ’73 Award for Faculty Innovation in Pedagogy, Beloit College, 1998.
• LifeStyle Program, Beloit Corporation, was awarded the Gold Award for Program Excellence of the Wellness Councils of America (WELCOA), October 1994.

Links
Slow Food USA
Bushel and Peck Local Market, Beloit
SENCER
Beloit College Health and Society program
Beloit College Health Professions Advisory Committee
Spirit of 1848 Listserv for Progressive Public Health

Selected Presentations

“Slow Food: A SENCER Model on Nutrition and Sustainability,” Presented at the SENCER Capital Hill Symposium, Washington, DC, April 15, 2008.

“Making Sense of the City: Developing Public Health Perspectives for Study Abroad,” AAC&U Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 24, 2008.

“Assessing Value Added in the Liberal Arts,” WAICU- AACU LEAP Conference, St Norbert College, DePere, WI, November 8, 2007.  With Dean Pape.

“Asking questions about public health: A SENCER strategy for community engagement,” SENCER Summer Institute, Portland, Maine, August 4, 2007.

“Teaching Health and Human Rights in an interdisciplinary major,” presented at Beloit College, ACM Symposium on Teaching Human Rights, January 28, 2007.

“Slow Food, A SENCER course,” SENCER Summer Institute, San Jose, California, 2006.

“Power, politics, the poor and public health: a local case study and global comparisons.” Wisconsin Health Education Network Annual Meeting, Madison, Wi, May 2006.

“Reflections on International Educational Experiences for Science Majors,” ACM Conference on Engaged Education, Lake Forest, IL, March 6, 2005.

“Deciphering the AIDS Epidemic,” Women and Health Annual Lecture, Center for Health Policy and Ethics, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, September 8, 2004.

“Emerging Infectious Diseases: Context and Complexity,” BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium Workshop, Beloit, WI, June 16, 2004

“Globalizing the Microbiology Curriculum with Case Studies: Teaching as is Microbiology Matters” American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana ,May 26, 2004.

“The tools of freedom,” Phi Beta Kappa Presidential address, Beloit College, May 15, 2004. 

“Teaching Science, Exploring Controversy, Taking Action: Perspectives on Global Education,” Panel presentation with Sheryl Broverman, Duke University and John Mecham, Meredith College, Association of American Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 23, 2004, Washington, DC.

“Science Education and Global Engagement,” SENCER Summer Institute 2003, Final plenary panel, San Jose, California, August 12, 2003.

"Taking the 3Ps to New People and New Places," BioQUEST Curriculum Constorium annual conference, Beloit, WI, June 3, 2003.

“Teaching HIV/AIDS: Developing Activities to Build Science Understanding and Civic Engagement for Majors and Non-Majors,” workshop with Sheryl Broverman, Duke University, Undergraduate Education Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, College Park, Maryland, May 18, 2003. 

“Microbes Count: Strategies and Projects to Increase  Student Engagement in Microbiology,” Undergraduate Education Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 18, 2002.

“Engaging activists: Teaching global perspectives on health and social inequalities at the undergraduate level,” American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, October 23, 2001.

Fass, Marion Field, “From Frankenstein to "Frankenfoods": Exploring the social implications of biotechnology”. Poster presented at the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, May 22, 2001.

Fass, Marion Field and Stinemetz, Charles, “Out of Africa: How international study impacts biology in the college classroom.”  Presented at the Association of College and University Biology Educators Annual Meeting, Terre Haute, IN.  October 14, 2000.

Fass, Marion Field, “AIDS in South Africa: Do Our Health Education Theories Apply to AIDS in the Developing World?”  Wisconsin Health Education Network Meeting, June 2, 1999, Appleton, WI.

Fass, Marion Field , “Using the Internet to Enhance Biology Education:  Suggestions for the Novice”  Bioscene:Journal of College Biology Teaching, 24(2): August 1998, 7-12.

Fass, Marion Field, “Defining Capacity Building and Advocacy in Our Communities,”  Keynote address at the Wisconsin Health Education Network Annual Meeting, Waukesha, WI, June 3, 1998.

Fass, Marion Field, “An Emerging Disease Course to teach Microbiology to Undergraduates,”  Poster presented at the American Society for Microbiology Education Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, May 16, 1998.

Fass, Marion Field, Krusko, Nancy and Colette Bina, "Doctors, Patients and Antibiotics: Conflicts, Compromises and Communicatioin Strategies," paper to be presented to the Forum on Bioethics, American Public Association Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 11/12/97

Fass, Marion Field, "Internet Friendly or Internet Phobic:  Strategies for the Classroom,"  Presented at the Association of Midwest College Biology Teachers Annual Meeting, Beloit College, Beloit, WI  10-18/97/  (paper in progress)

Fass, Marion Field  "Workshop Biology Strategies at Beloit College," presented at the Western Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, Corvallis, OR, June 1997.  (paper in progress)

Fass, Marion Field, "Workshop:  Emerging Diseases" Presented at the Association of Midwest Biology Teachers Annual Meeting at Loras College, Dubuque, IA, 10/5/96.

Fass, Marion Field and Solomon Liburd, "The Score at Midnight Basketball:  Young Men's Perceptions of High Blood Pressure."  Presented as a poster by Solomon Liburd at the International Conference on Hypertension in Blacks in New Orleans, LA.  7/17/96

Fass, Marion Field and Marc Roy, "Workshop Human Biology."  Presented as a workshop to the BioQUEST Workshop, June 25, 1996, Beloit, WI.

Fass, Marion Field, "The Cost Effectiveness of Health Education Strategies."  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Wisconsin Health Education Network, Green Bay, WI  6/9/96 

Fass, Marion Field and Marc Roy, "Workshop Human Biology."  Presented at Association of Midwest College Biology Teachers Conference at Cardinal Stritch College, Milwaukee, WI  October,  9/25/95.

Fass, Marion Field and Marc Roy, "Workshop Human Biology."  Presented as poster at the Project Kaleidscope meeting on Revitalizing Introductory Biology, May 1, 1995, Eugene, Oregon.

Fass, Marion  "Breast Cancer Screening in the Workplace,"  Wisconsin Breast Cancer Summit, Milwaukee, WI, May 5, 1994.

Fass, Marion, Jungck, John.  "AIDS as Content, Science as Process,"  Presented a the National Science Teachers Association Convention, Boston, MA,  March 27, 1992.

Fass, Marion Field,  " Health Education Perspectives from the Workplace, " presented at "Marketing Strategies for Health Education," a conference of the Wisconsin Health Education Network, June 5, 1991.

Fass, Marion, Gold, Sandra and Curatolo, Pam.  "Long term strategies for maintaining motivation in Health Promotion Programs for White Collar and Blue Collar Workers," Presented at the Wellness in the Workplace Conference, Baltimore MD, March 21, 1990.

Fass, Marion, "Learning by Doing: Teaching Patient Education Skills to Primary Care Residents."  Presented at American Public Health Association meeting, November 6, 1979.

Fass, Marion Field, "Research in Patient Education and Family Medicine" in Patient Education in the Primary Care Setting, Madison, WI, 1978.