Dr. Miriam Golbert started her education in Argentina obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry. After moving to the United States, she earned a Master of Science in Biology with an emphasis in Cellular and Molecular Biology from California State University Northridge, California, and a Doctorate in Higher Education Leadership from Nova Southeastern University, Florida. Her teaching experience at the community college level is vast having been in education and teaching for over 24 years. As a tenured full-time, Professor in the Biological & Environmental Sciences department at a Los Angeles area community college dr. Golbert has held many positions. Dr. Golbert has served as the department chair for 15 years managing all aspects of the department, from curriculum design, hiring adjunct and full-time faculty, classified staff, and budgeting for all the department needs. Dr. Golbert has taught a variety of courses including General Biology, the two sequence of majors Biology (Cell & Molecular and Diversity, Ecology and Evolution), Human Anatomy and Physiology, Human Prosection, and Human Genetics. Dr. Golbert is also in charge of the college’s Honors program and is the advisor for Phi Theta Kappa (the two-year college International Honors Society). Dr. Golbert is the author of the Cellular and Molecular Biology Lab Manual currently in use for the Biology majors’ course. Dr Golbert has been teaching online since 2004, making the transition during the pandemic, seamless.

Her study abroad experience is extensive having traveled with more than 30 students to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Panama, Argentina, Uruguay, and the Galapagos islands over three times. While there, students and Dr. Golbert studied bird mating behavior, marine birds’ diversity, conservation models in Costa Rica, Monteverde’s cloud forest flora, and algal diversity in Lake Nicaragua.

Taking students to learn Biology in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuadorian Amazon, and Costa Rica is a unique opportunity to appreciate conservation and the amazing biological diversity that exists there. Dr. Golbert lives in Los Angeles and enjoys playing tennis almost every day.