Todd Cooke is a Professor Emeritus and Research Professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics. He received his BA in Biology from Antioch College and his PhD in Botany from Cornell University. His research focuses on the multidisciplinary education of biology students and on the development and evolution of plants, for which he was awarded a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. He has taught a wide range of undergraduate biology courses, most recently introductory organismal biology, and he has also contributed  graduate courses in plant biology and science education. He has received several teaching awards, including the Creative Educator Award from the CMNS Board of Visitors and the William E. and Patricia H. Kirwan Undergraduate Education Award from the UMD campus. He served as the founding director of the thematic living-learning program called Integrated Life Sciences in the UMD Honors College.