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Division of Biology
General Biology Down by the river...
Biology 101-12:40-1:55 TR AMB 212 (Alumni Gym)
Biology 101-Evening class: 5:45-7:00 MW in NBA 118
Dr. Patricia Cox, Coordinator
Telephone: 974-6225
E-mail: pcox@utk.edu
Dr. Cox is the Core Biology Coordinator for the Division of Biology and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Botany at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She earned her B.S. and M.S. in Biology from Northeast Louisiana University (University of Louisiana at Monroe) and her Ph.D. in Botany from Louisiana State University. She has co-authored three lab manuals and a Study Guide for a non-major’s Biology textbook. Previously, an Instructor for the General Biology Program, she is concerned about the quality of undergraduate Biology education. Her research interests are in the systematics of Rudbeckia and related composites. In addition to her work on Rudbeckia, she is also interested in Liatris of the southeast and field pteridology. Currently, she teaches a field pteridology course and is co-chair of the Plant Twig for the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory for the GSMNP where she is concentrating on re-evaluating the pteridophyte flora in the park. Patricia has served the Association of Southeastern Biologist previously as an Executive Committee Member and co-program chair for the 1995 ASB meetings hosted by the University of Tennessee. She also has been an active member of The Southern Appalachian Botanical Society (SABS) where she has served as Member-at-large, Editor for Castanea and currently serves as the Membership Secretary and SABS Representative to the Great Smoky Mountain Wildflower Pilgrimage for which she is one of the coordinators. Patricia was the 1995 recipient of the Richard and Minnie Windler Award for the best systematic paper published in Castanea: “A taxonomic Revision of Rudbeckia subg. Macrocline (Asteraceae: Heliantheae:Rudbeckiinae)”. On a personal note, Dr. Cox is a mother of four and a raging Lady Vol Basketball fan.
Pteridology class looking for "worts"