Dr. Ella Ingram’s variety of specialties includes both ecology and methods of teaching and learning. She has advised award-winning student project teams, accompanied students on a field studies program to Kenya, and collaborated with undergraduate researchers to study such topics as wetland ecology, sexual selection in humans and plant-fungi interactions. Ingram is enjoying her second term as director of the institute’s Center for the Practice and Scholarship of Education, and is a regular mentor to the Making Academic Change Happen workshop, which has created change agents on campuses across the nation.
Teaching Interests
- Ecology of temperate forests
- Plant/fungi interactions
- Alternative methods of college teaching
Research Interests
- Mycorrhizal mutualism of Mayapple
- Chemical analyses of soil nutrients
- Effect of student characteristics on learning evolution
Awards
- Excellence in Service Award, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2018
- Board of Trustees Outstanding Scholar Award, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2017
- Honorary Alumnus Designation, Alumni Association, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2016
Degrees
- PhD, Indiana University, 2004
- BA, Augustana College, 1997