Rate My Professor Jeremy Hsu

Dr. Jeremy Hsu serves as Associate Professor of Biology in the Department of Biological Sciences at Chapman University's Schmid College of Science and Technology. He joined the institution in 2016 as an Instructional Assistant Professor, progressed to Assistant Professor in 2022, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2025. Concurrently, he assumed the role of Assistant Director for Research and Creative Activities at the Center for Undergraduate Excellence in 2025. Hsu earned his A.B. cum laude with high honors in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University in 2011, where his honors thesis earned the Hoopes Prize, and his Ph.D. in Biology specializing in ecology and evolution from Stanford University in 2016. His early career included teaching assistantships, lecturing at Stanford University (summers 2018, 2019, 2021), and at the University of California, San Diego (summer 2020).

A biology education researcher, Hsu's interests include assessment of student learning, factors influencing student perceptions and knowledge transfer, student-faculty experiences with office hours, and development of inquiry-based activities. His evolutionary genetics background yielded publications such as "The genetics of monarch butterfly migration and warning colouration" in Nature (2014) and "Genomic data reveal a loss of diversity in two species of tuco-tucos following a volcanic eruption" in Scientific Reports (2017). Recent biology education works feature "Instructor strategies to alleviate student stress and anxiety among college and university STEM students" in CBE—Life Sciences Education (2021), "Student motivations and barriers towards online and in person office hours in STEM courses" (2022), and "Variations in student approaches to problem solving in undergraduate biology education" (2024). As principal or co-principal investigator, he leads NSF grants on STEM education, including course-based research experiences and biology office hours interventions. Hsu teaches Evolution, Molecular Genetics, and capstone courses on monarch migration and SARS-CoV-2. Awards include the Valerie Scudder Award, Chapman's highest for teaching and service (2020), Pedagogical Innovations Award (2018), and Stanford's Norman K. Wessells Award (2013). He serves on the Orange County Science and Engineering Fair board.