Stephen King

Stephen J. King chairs the UCF Faculty Senate. King is an associate professor in the Neurobiology Division of the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences in the College of Medicine. He earned his BS in Biological Sciences at Cornell University and his PhD in Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was a postdoctoral fellow at The Johns Hopkins University before his first faculty position at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He came to UCF in 2011 to expand his research capabilities into the study of human neurodegenerative disease.

King’s courses at UCF all move beyond standard lecture techniques to better impact student learning. He developed and teaches Experimental Molecular Cell Biology, which trains promising undergraduates in aspects of modern cell biology research and links classroom teaching with disease relevant experimental procedures. He also teaches the Group Effort Applied Research (GEAR) to undergraduate students. GEAR is a research-intensive course that provides students a hands-on research experience for a semester as the entire class works on different aspects of the same research topic. His graduate courses teach critical thinking skills to MS and PhD students as the students assess and discuss recent scientific literature.