Dr. Kim Quillin earned a BA in Biology from Oberlin College and a PhD in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley as a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow.

Kim has worked alongside Scott Freeman on every version of Biological Science, beginning with the development of the drawings from the ground up in the first edition in 1999 and growing her contribution with each edition. Kim is currently the Introductory Biology Curriculum Coordinator at Salisbury University (SU), which is part of the University System of Maryland, where she is actively involved in the ongoing student-centered reform of the course for biology majors.

She is also the Biology Department’s Curriculum Facilitator, focused on programmatic evaluation and alignment of the SU biology curriculum with the Vision and Change key principles and competencies.