Ruth Beattie
Candidate for the Position of Member-at-Large

Biographical Information

Ruth Beattie is an assistant professor of biology at the University of Kentucky. In 1987 she graduated from Queen's University Belfast, N. Ireland, with a Ph.D. in biochemistry. She completed two postdoctoral fellowships at the Hipple Cancer Research Center and at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. She then taught for four years at Ball State University, Muncie Indiana. In Fall of 1995 she joined the faculty of the University of Kentucky as an instructional multimedia specialist, where her primary responsibility is teaching large enrollment freshman level biology and microbiology classes. In 2000, Ruth was the recipient of a University of Kentucky's Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Teaching and was also named a Top Ten Teacher in the College of Arts and Sciences.

ABLE Service/Activity

I have been a member of ABLE since 1995. I have presented either a major or mini workshop at every ABLE meeting that I have attended. Since 1996, I have served on the Major Workshop Committee and in 1999, I hosted the Second Annual Regional ABLE Meeting at the University of Kentucky.