Carol Armstrong

Education:
B.Sc. Honours (University of Calgary)
M.Sc.(Dalhousie University)
PhD (University of Calgary)

Position:
Associate Professor and
Adjunct Professor
Dept of Cell Biology and Anatomy
Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary

Office: B342G
Phone: 403.440.8568
Fax: 403.440.6095
Email: carmstrong@mtroyal.ca

Carol completed a BSc in Biological Sciences (University of Calgary), an MSc in Anatomy and Neurobiology (Dalhousie University) and a PhD in Developmental Neuroscience (University of Calgary), focusing her studies on heat shock proteins and pattern formation in the cerebellum. After receiving her doctorate, Carol moved to California for post-doctoral studies at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, CA). She spent five years as an Assistant Professor at the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph, ON before moving to Mt. Royal in 2010. Carol teaches human anatomy, histology, embryology and reproductive physiology in addition to running a developmental neurobiology research lab.

Carol is focused on decolonization of science as a means to create space for Indigenous ways of knowing and learning in post-secondary institutions. Working alongside Piikani Knowledge Holder Harley Bastien, she has co-developed a third-year Biology course (mru.ca/commonground) that uses relational and experiential land-based learning to explore and integrate both western and Indigenous science.