Kumkum Prabhakar has her Ph.D. from the Department of Botany, University of Delhi, India. She co-authored an extensively-quoted paper in the Embryology of Angiosperms, published by Springer-Verlag. Presently, Dr. Prabhakar is Professor of Biology at
...MoreKumkum Prabhakar has her Ph.D. from the Department of Botany, University of Delhi, India. She co-authored an extensively-quoted paper in the Embryology of Angiosperms, published by Springer-Verlag. Presently, Dr. Prabhakar is Professor of Biology at Nassau Community College. She has designed two new courses - Bio 124 Plants & Society and Bio 130 Molecules & Medicines at Nassau Community College.
Dr. Prabhakar is a recipient of State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2002 and SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Faculty Service in 2010. Her main contributions are in the area of academic assessment of student learning. She served as Chair of the SUNY General Education Natural Science subcommittee. Dr. Prabhakar has conducted many workshops pertinent to teaching botany, outcomes assessment, active learning, and modifying curriculum with technology. She modified the Plants and Society course to be offered as web enhanced course, Honors seminar, international study course, continuing education course, and as learning community with the Reading Department.
She serves on the executive board of Phytomorphology (an international journal of plant morphology), The Botanica, the Metropolitan Association of College and University Biologists, and as a foreign representative at the All India Women’s Education Fund Association.
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