PhD Candidate, Research Assistant
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin
Ashley Henry was born in Kansas City, Missouri to an agricultural family. This background drove her to pursue botany to find the vocabulary that describes the plant behavior and anatomy she observed growing up. While pursuing her B.S. in Biology at Truman State University, her passion for botany developed into a desire to educate others on the wonders and importance of plants. Ashley is now a 6th year PhD student at UW-Madison where she is combining her love of roots with camera and computational work. Ashley has taken several teaching courses and completed the Scientific Teaching Fellows Program where she created and implemented her own curriculum in a biology seminar course for first-year students. She continues to work with this program mentoring the current Teaching Fellows and revising the seminar using student evaluation data. When Ashley isn’t teaching, she’s reading Jane Austen’s works and playing with her bunnies.