Dr. Peggy Wright, Physical & Biological Sciences Department Faculty
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My favorite class to teach is probably Ecology because it uses what I know best.
My field of study was originally fisheries in wildlife, so I'm really interested in the
environment and, kind of, the world around us. Just the fact that I've always like the
outdoors, I've always been interested in studying what's going on around us.
Depending on what you study you can do all kinds of things. You could go into teaching,
you could work in a lab, you could do research, you could work outside, work for the conservation
department, so there's a lot of different things that you can do.
The new building has almost changed the attitude of students and teachers. I just feel more
energy, more positive energy about learning and the environment. I've really taken advantage
of the dedicated student research space for my classes. Space where we can set up experiments,
set off to the side so it's dedicated space for that.
Students should study science at Columbia College mainly because of our excellent science
faculty and because of the small class sizes that make learning a little bit easier. And
also I tend to have the same students over and over again so it's nice to get to know
them as people, not just students.
