Jessica Rettig

Dr. Rettig has been teaching at Denison University, a small liberal arts college in Ohio, since the fall of 2000. Currently she is a full professor in the Biology Department and Director of the Global Health Program and she teaches introductory and advanced courses in Biology and in Global Health. Dr. Rettig’s graduate training centered on ecology and evolutionary biology and she earned her Ph.D. from Michigan State University, completing much of her research at MSU’s Kellogg Biological Station. As Director of Denison’s S-STEM Program (NSF Award #2030762) Dr. Rettig collaborates with science faculty and campus offices to implement a suite of four mentoring pathways for students in the sciences: academic mentoring, peer-mentoring, research mentoring, and career mentoring. Each semester Denison’s S-STEM Scholars engage in events and activities in each of these mentoring pathways, with activities tailored to the Scholar’s collegiate progression. For example, junior, sophomore, and first year Scholars engage in different career-mentoring activities or experience different research mentoring opportunities.