Rate My Professor Juli Uhl

Juli Uhl is an Instructor and Fixed Term Assistant Professor in the Human Biology Program within Michigan State University's College of Natural Science. She is based in 108 Giltner Hall and teaches courses such as HBIO 410: Cellular Basis of Disease and HBIO 495: Capstone in Human Biology. Uhl serves on the College of Natural Science Curriculum Committee for 2025. In 2024, she received the Faculty Teaching Prize from the College of Natural Science, associated with the Human Biology Program, following in the tradition of recipients like Paul Nelson from the same program in 2004. Previously, as a postdoctoral researcher at Michigan State University, she was awarded a Postdoctoral Association Travel Award.

Uhl earned her Ph.D. in Molecular and Developmental Biology from the University of Cincinnati in spring 2014. Her doctoral research was conducted in the Gebelein Lab at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center under advisor Brian Gebelein. After completing her doctorate, she served as an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at the University of Cincinnati. Her academic interests include biology education research, with involvement in the Automated Analysis of Constructed Responses research group at Michigan State University. This work focuses on student explanations of molecular processes, such as those involved in information flow, and the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence to assess constructed responses in STEM education. She presented on automated writing assessment of undergraduate learning in biology at the 2021 SABER national meeting. Uhl has contributed thoughtfully to peer-reviewed studies published in journals including the Journal of Chemical Education and CBE—Life Sciences Education, addressing topics like student use of animations, instructor explanations of ATP synthesis mechanisms, and coding schemes for science learning progressions.