One of the best professors I've had for any of the intro bio series! She is so kind and helpful and makes sure that the lectures are super clear and to the point. Her lectures are informative and inspiring and she's super approachable and kind in office hours! You'll actually want to watch her lectures! I would love to take another class with her!

My favorite professor I have had at UCSB by far. On top of being immensely organized and providing amazing slides, she explains the information in a way that makes everything really easy to understand. The passion she has for the work she does is 100% reflected in her teaching and I cannot wait to take another class from her!

Prof. James is lowkey hot! Because of the coronavirus she went off syllabus lessening the workload on us. Her lectures are amazing and inspiring, makes you wanna just quit whatever ur doing for marine bio. She focuses on interesting concepts rather than just memorizing taxonomy. Super approachable in office hours gives great advice for a career. <3

she makes ecology extremely interesting and sends out cool videos to watch that go with her lectures, which she makes straightforward with helpful slides. she offers guidance with grad school and future pathways. she passes her passion for ecology onto her students. definitely the best eemb3 lecturer out of them all. her tests are far.

Shay is the sweetest. She was always available to talk and help (even gives put her phone number and offers to FaceTime students). She gives good and thorough feedback on papers. She really cares about her students and even let us out early once because everyone was dead from midterms. Also a fair grader. Not hard to please, just put in effort.

Nice teacher, hard grader.

My favorite class at UCSB so far, I'm still a first year though. Shay is so sweet and helpful, loved her class!

She was great for Writing 2 during summer session B, super easy class and less projects because there was less time than a normal quarter. She is the sweetest person ever and super great. She dresses cute and makes class fun.