Publications include: a book review of Darwin in the Genome: Molecular Strategies in Biological Evolution in Reports of the National Center for Science Education 27 (2007); "A Catechism of Creation: An Episcopal Understanding" in The Franciscan Times (2007); "The Biological Foundation of Homosexuality" (Report of the Task Force on Same-Sex Marriage Appendix) in Reports of the Ministry and Mission of the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane to the 43rd Annual Convention (2007); "The Evolution of Biological Complexity" in Reports of the National Center for Science Education (2006); co-author, with J. L. Pond, "Intelligent Design: The New Vitalism" in Reports of the National Center for Science Education (2006). Author or co-author of articles in biology journals.

Recipient of $37,603.50 LI-COR Genomics Education Matching Fund Program Grant for purchase of LI-COR Model 4300 DNA Analysis System (2006); principal investigator for a $38,000 Murdock Foundation Research Grant (1997-99); principal investigator for a $75,000 NIH AREA grant (1991-94); recipient of a grant to study German language and culture as part of a FIPSE award (1989-91); NSF grant reviewer for the Research in Undergraduate Institutions program (1988).

Invited speaker at the Institut fur Biochemie und Molekulare Biologie der Technischen Unversitat, Berlin (1990); invited round table participant at the XIV International Congress for Microbiology in Manchester, England (1986); National Teaching Fellow (1981-82).