I took Professor Young for EEMB 120 which was taught by two teachers. I think her lectures were interesting and she really cares for the students. The class itself was rather difficult, the class average for the first midterm was rather low (taught by the other professor), but there was a huge curve and the final (Young's portion) allowed notes!

Hillary is all over the place man. We got a 10% curve on this final because she couldn't write the test properly. The first half of the class was not taught by her and was great. She ruined the second half, horrible slides, mid lectures, horrible final. Still a super easy class though.

Hilary is a great researcher, however she needs to learn that dumping three classes worth of material in 5 weeks is absurd. She covered way more than she needed to and tested on it. Not only were the number of slides ridiculous, her organization was poor and she went through material so fast. She is out of touch.

I took 113 with Hillary and her portion of the class was extremely unorganized. The slides she lectured from didn't match the slide deck she published and she lectured so fast it was impossible to keep up. Her quizzes and exam asked very detailed questions on topics she only generally explained. Way too high of expectations for a 3 credit class.

Lectures are impossible to follow and unorganized. quiz questions are poorly constricted (and tricky) and often ask about material we don't cover nearly enough

I would honestly give Professor Young a 0/5, but at least she's nice. It's too bad that her lectures were so fast paced and poorly organized.

Hilary was so disorganized and often didn't post slides that matched with our material. Shes a bad lecturer and doesn't make it clear which answer is the correct one. The test was deceiving even though the material isn't hard at all. The class was easy though thank god, if it was any harder i would not have taken it with her.

Textbook does not relate to lecture, but are expected. to know all material from it for tests. Lectures are extremely difficult to follow and class feels like she is making up everything on the spot. Slides were in the wrong orders, so I spent half the time looking for the slide she was presenting.

Her lectures were ridiculously unorganized and hard to follow. Her slides were usually in the wrong order and she skipped around a lot, which makes studying for exams much harder. Also, lectures arent recorded.

I really enjoyed EEMB120 and EEMB113 with Hillary. She is a caring and understanding teacher, great at responding to emails, and inspiring as a female scientist. The only thing I would change is that I the weekly quizzes, the questions were sometimes cryptic and hard to answer even when looking at the text, and were for the "next week's" papers.

This class was great and probably considered a difficult class to fail. The class was graded purely on effort and a majority of your grade was from the class project on a specie you chose. Time consuming class and lots of research papers to read and quizzes were hard but quizzes didnt impact your grade as much and lots of EC offered.

There was about 2-3 research papers that needed to be read a week as the quizzes were on the content of those papers and the lecture material. The quizzes were the worst part of the class but weren't worth much compared to the course project. This class was graded on effort and only 1 midterm, difficult to fail the class if you complete every task

Pros: - inspiring female professor - offers a lot of extra credit - many "ungraded" completion based assignments - no final exam - clear grading criteria - intelligent and knowledgeable Cons: - lectures can get slightly boring - some of the quiz and test questions are difficult and oddly specific - quizzing on "next week's material" was a bit odd

I think that because EEMB 120 is a bit math heavy, the best way to help students understand concepts would be to make the quizzes more math based. Having us read a lot of extra studies to be quizzed on for the sake of being introduced to research was a bit unnecessary. Going more in depth on less material would have made it more memorable.

So I really wanted to like her due to her being a female scientist and researcher, but nah. The lectures are dry, she breezes through, and it's hard to follow along. The quizzes in her class are ridiculous, and the formatting is silly (being quizzed on "next week's material"?? WHY?). +Assignments where early sections get more time but same due date

Great lecturer, super caring and passionate researcher. Very knowledgeable about many science topics and accessible outside class if you just shoot her an email. Hillary will make you work to earn the grade you want but you will learn a lot in turn. If you are able to put in the time take her class!

She talks insanely fast and goes through slides too fast! So it's hard to retain any information. She always asks if anyone has any questions and actually answers the questions. She responds to emails almost instantly and is happy to help. She's very passionate about birds & will make you read either one or both ( 2nd extra credit) books on birds.

She goes through lectures too quickly. didn't learn a thing in her class.

She's really awesome. Clearly is very knowledgeable and she makes the lectures interesting. She is conducting some cool research and it's neat to hear about that too. I think she's really inspirational as a young woman scientist and I look forward to taking more classes from her.