Faculty

Rebekah Klingler is an assistant professor of Biology at Alverno College, where she has taught since 2018. She is also the director of the campus greenhouse, which houses a state-of-the-art aquaponics facility that grows plants, vegetables and yellow perch as a model of sustainable urban agriculture. The facility offers hands-on interaction to students, faculty and staff from across the college. Klingler is the Project Director for Alverno College: Establishing a Pipeline of Student Experience and Leadership Development in Sustainable Agriculture, a $273,786 grant from the US Department of Agriculture's - Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education Grants (HSI) Program, which will support the development of outreach and retention activities, as well as some initial curriculum redesign, utilizing the new teaching greenhouse.

Klingler earned her Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York, and a PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from Colorado State University in Fort Collins.