Michele Morris

Ms. Morris serves as the Director of Workforce Development for Educational Outreach at HudsonAlpha Institute. She joined the Institute in 2009. Ms. Morris is responsible for building a pipeline of activities and learning opportunities to support workforce needs in genetics, genomics, and biotechnology. She directs the BioTrain Summer Internship program, multi-week programs for high school students, and a bioinformatics research program for undergraduates. These programs are designed to inspire and motivate students to pursue careers in science and persist in achieving that goal. She earned a BA in Communications from Winthrop University, a BS in Biological Sciences from the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and is a doctoral candidate in Biotechnology Science and Engineering at UAH.