Teaching

Teaching Philosophy

Professor Mychajliw’s teaching philosophy is hands-on, place-based, and community-engaged, with an emphasis on active participation in the scientific process and consideration of societal context.

Professor Mychajliw is committed to teaching courses that break the university bubble and allow students to meaningfully apply their knowledge to real-world problems. She also believes that knowledge comes in many forms and can be found in many places, including outside of a classroom.

Teaching Awards

  • Biosciences Excellence in Teaching Award, Stanford School of Medicine
  • Norman K. Wessells Award for Outstanding Teaching, Stanford Department of Biology
  • Departmental Excellence in Teaching Award, Stanford Department of Biology
  • Community Engaged Learning and Research Course Grant Award, Haas Center 

At Middlebury College this Spring 2024, Professor Mychajliw is currently teaching:

BIOL 392: Conservation Biology

BIOL 500/700: Independent Study

ECSC 500/701: Independent Study

ENVS 401: Community-Engaged Senior Capstone

Instructor, BIO 128. Geographic Impacts of Global Change: Mapping the Stories

“There was great satisfaction knowing that the work I was doing for this class directly supported a larger project whose impacts would last well beyond the quarter ends and reach all corners of California. It was really unlike any other class I have taken at Stanford.” – 2014 Bio 128 student

Teaching & communicating global change.

Students bridge the science-policy gap to showcase impacts of global change, Stanford Teaching Commons


Cool New Tool Brings Storytelling to Environmental Science, KCET


Stanford students create interactive tool that tells the story of global change, Stanford Report

Instructor, Conservation Paleoecology at the La Brea Tar Pits, Institute for Field Research

Short Course, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago

Teaching Assistantships

Stanford University
  • Bio 43. Plant Biology, Ecology, Evolution (1 quarter)
  • Bio 101. Intro to Ecology (1 quarter)
Cornell University
  • BioEE 2780. Evolutionary Biology (1 semester)
  • BioEE 2740. Vertebrates: Structure, Function & Evolution (2 semesters)
  • BioMG 1290. Personal Genomics & Medicine (2 semesters)
  • BioSM 1780. Evolution & Marine Diversity (4 week field course)
  • BioEE 1780. Evolution & Biodiversity (2 semesters)