Jenny M. Dauer is the Associate Director for Undergraduate Education in the School of Natural Resources, Associate Professor of Science Literacy, and the lead instructor for Science and Decision-making for a Complex World at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Dauer received her BS in Secondary Education and MS in Ecology at Penn State University, and her PhD in Forest Science at Oregon State University. She also worked as post-doctoral researcher in environmental literacy in the College of Education at Michigan State University. Dr. Dauer has conducted research on students’ development of argumentation, evidence evaluation, and decision-making skills, and the impact of socioscientific issues instruction on students’ science literacy. Her current research focus is how student characteristics such as identity impact student motivation and reasoning in socioscientific issues-based classrooms.