Dr. Jeff Carmichael graduated from Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania with a BS in Biology and the University of Georgia with a Ph.D. in Plant Biology. He studied enzyme kinetics as an undergraduate student on a fellowship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

His master’s thesis was on sexual reproduction in a fascinating group of seed plants.
For more than 20 years, he has taught and coordinated Introductory Biology at the University of North Dakota (UND). He also assists other faculty members in incorporating evidence-based best teaching techniques into their courses through the campus-wide Teaching Transformation and Development Academy. At UND and as a graduate student in Georgia, he garnered teaching prizes for excellence.