Joan E. Lafuze, professor of biology, was recently featured in the Spring 2007 edition of Association for Women in Science (AWI.)

The article is a conversation piece with Lafuze that includes her educational and research background.

Lafuze teaches classes at IU East and six other Indiana University campuses. She also conducts medical research on mental illness and mental health services. She serves as the section editor for the Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and is the president of the AWI Indiana chapter. In addition, she is the co-director Women and Gender Studies Program at IU East.