Margaret L. Hudson

Margaret Hudson grew up near the small eastern Washington town of Dayton, and completed a B.S. in Botany at the University of Washington in 1968. She carried out graduate work in phycology (the study of algae) at the University of Texas and completed her Ph.D. in Botany at the University of Washington in 1974. Her dissertation work involved the study of the unusual life history and processes of nuclear and cell division in a green seaweed which grows intertidally in the cool marine waters of the north temperate zone.

Dr. Hudson joined the faculty at Seattle University in 1974. As the Chief Premedical/Predental Advisor for Seattle University, she provides advice and assistance to students preparing for careers in the health professions. Since 1974, she has had the great pleasure of teaching a variety of courses in biology, as well as her present course assignments of anatomy and physiology, plant physiology and plant taxonomy. She's developing a course in ultrastructure. Her current professional interests include algal ultrastructure and the development and testing of active learning experiences for students of the life sciences. Recently she has been pleased to include some Seattle University students in continuing research on the green seaweed Acrosiphonia, through the support of an award from the Murdock Trust to several faculty members at Seattle University. One of these students, Ami Ongstad, presented the results of her work at two National Conferences on Undergraduate Research, in 1994 and 1995.

Dr. Hudson is a member of the International Phycological Society, the Phycological Society of America, Sigma Xi, the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Microscopy Society of America, the National Association for Advisors in the Health Professions, and the Physiology Education Research Consortium, whose work is currently funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

In her free time, Dr. Hudson enjoys hiking, cycling, reading, and many types of music. She and her husband are members of an ethnic dance group and have recently enjoyed taking up ballroom dancing.

Ph.D. Botany, 1974,University of Washington
B.S. Botany, 1968, University of Washington

1981 to date: Associate Professor of Biology, Seattle University. Tenured since 1981.
1974-1981: Assistant Professor of Biology, Seattle University.
Teaching responsibilities: Plant Physiology, Taxonomy of Flowering Plants, Anatomy and Physiology, General Biology, Plant Morphology, Field Ecology, Science Principles, Science for Honors students, Senior Seminar and supervision of student research and senior synthesis projects. Department Chair, 1978-83
Visiting professor, University of Washington:
freshwater algology, summer, 1977
plant classification, summers 1986 and 1987
Visiting professor, Seattle Pacific University: marine botany, summer 1992

Publications

Hudson, P. R. and M. J. Wynne. 1969. Sexual plants of Bonnemaisonia geniculata (Nemaliales). Phycologia 8:207 213.

Hudson, P. R. and J. R. Waaland. 1974. Ultrastructure of mitosis and cytokinesis in the marine green alga Acrosiphonia. J. C.ellBiol. 62:274-294.

Hudson, Margaret Louise.1974. Field, culture and ultrastructural studies on the marine green alga Acrosiphonia in the Puget Sound region. PhD. dissertation. University of Washington.

Hudson, Peggy. 1995. Acting out muscle contraction. Advances in Physiology Education 14(1) 375.

Modell, Harold, Joel A. Michael, Tom Adamson, Jack Goldberg, Barbara A. Horwitz, David S. Bruce, Margaret L. Hudson, Shirley A. Whitescarver, and Stephen Williams. 2000. Helping undergraduates repair faulty mental models in the student laboratory. Advances in Physiology Education June, 2000 (in press)

Prehealth Handbook for students interested in the health professions, Seattle University, 1994; revised, 1996, 2000