Taylor Allen

  • Professor of Biology

Areas of Study

Education

  • BSE, University of Pennsylvania, 1984
  • PhD, University of Washington, 1990
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 1990–1996

Biography

Allen's recent research has two prongs. One examines ways to promote enduring, transferrable understanding of biological concepts. Representative of this prong are two student co-authored publications: Webster et al. (2022) and Pollock-Ballard et al. (2024).

The second prong involves designing, implementing, and testing across the nation department-level strategies for improving the educational outcomes of biology undergraduates. Recent publications illustrating this endeavor are Fink et al. (2024) and Allen et al. (2025).

Fall 2025

Organismal Biology — BIOL 100

Planting New Ways of Being — BIOL 999

Spring 2026

Finding Well-being and Ways Forward Through Adversity — BIOL 003

Physiology — BIOL 312

News

Community Partnership Focuses on Accessibility in Science

Oberlin Associate Professor of Biology Taylor Allen and Peter Ogbuji, executive director of the Harrison Cultural Community Center, cosponsored a camp to make science more creative and accessible to children in Lorain County.

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