Biography and CV

Dr. Crystal Uminski is a postdoctoral biology education researcher at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biology Secondary Education from Elizabethtown College in 2016 and received a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, where she worked with Dr. Brian Couch to study assessments in introductory biology courses. Dr. Uminski’s interest in biology education research stemmed from her experiences teaching high school biology and developing standardized science assessments at the Educational Testing Service. Her current research with Dr. Dina Newman and Dr. L. Kate Wright at RIT focuses on how students think about visual representations of DNA. In her free time, she enjoys watching movies and doting on her cats, Delilah and Turnip. Dr. Uminski will be starting as an assistant professor of biological sciences at Towson University this Fall.