Janet Burke

Janet (Jana) Burke is a faculty member in the Center for Integrative Studies in General Science, where she teaches physical and biological science classes for future secondary science teachers and students outside of the STEM majors. She first came to Michigan State as a postdoctoral researcher after earning her bachelor's in biological sciences from Smith College and her PhD from the Geology and Geophysics Department at Yale University. Her training is in the fundamentally interdisciplinary fields of micropaleontology and paleoceanography, where techniques and perspectives from biology, geology, and chemistry combine to reconstruct ancient oceans.