Easy class, but it's quite tiring being lectured to like the room is filled with 10 year olds.

I took Kelly for both Cell and Genetics, let me tell you this is one of the best instructors I've ever had. She has been of great assistance in getting me a research position. Those of you who didn't like her genetics class, I don't know what you're thinking - she has such great knowledge about that area of biology. Support working mothers!!!!!! Kelly does a wonderful job balancing work and home. And if you ever have trouble, she'll help you out - she gets online to answer questions the night before an exam

FYI - Biol 123 is a dumbed down class. You learn the basics because that's all you need to know for your major, those of us who take the upper level classes are better able to judge how good a professor is at teaching a subject - Kelly's one of the best I've had. She's there to support her students 100 percent. Especially if you're a female entering the sciences, what a great mentor!

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Kelly was one of the best professors I have ever had. She was very clear and easy to approach with questions. She gives review sheets that give an excellent overview of what will be on the test. It's not hard material in the first place, but she explains it very well and is happy to clear up questions if you take the time to ask.

Molecular cell biology was a fun, interesting class, and Kelly was always very helpful and willing to answer questions. She really wants students to do well, and will help you succeed in her class.

I absolutely loved Kelly! Her lectures are easy to follow and most of them are interesting as far as intro biology classes go. Her help sessions help a lot especially during her office hours and she's always willing to explain things you didn't understand. I highly recommend taking her!

Molecular Biology - Her lectures are confusing and not that exciting ("then this enzyme attaches to this protein, then there is a change, then this protein, etc.."), personally she is very nice and helpful. Fair grader.

Kelly Howe is one of the best professors I have ever had. She is very clear and easy to understand. She is also very compassionate and sympathetic to any personal problems you may have. I'm am so happy that I stumbled into her lecture. If I had to take the class again I would ONLY take it with her.

She was a good teacher! Explained material as good as any biology teacher at UNM. Her tests can be hard. Gave us a take home final that was the hardest test I have ever taken in my life!

Kelly is an extremely good lecturer! she writes everything on the board which really helps outs!! Her homework is confusing and some test questions can be confusing.I really liked her class and found it very interesting. Biology is a lot of work but VERY do able. I m taking genetics with her for sure.

Prof. Howe is a good lecturer. Her strongest point is an ability to use memorable examples to explain things. At the time, they might seem silly but you find yourself remembering them on the exams and remembering the information. The 123 class (for health-science majors) was a little too easy for my tastes but Iwill take Kelly for Genetics.

Awesome!

Very good lecturer, you will definately learn the stuff. Writes alot so learn to write stuff down fast. Tests come from the lectures so no need for the book.

Good lecturer. Conveys ideas clearly. Writes on board. All good :)

The class notes are the most important thing to use to study for tests. very interesting class and was not boring

Dr. Howe is very thorough & precise in her lectures. She explains things very easily, which is great for students who are dumb enough to be on-line, in her class, during her lecture, rating her!

She is a great teacher! Her notes are thorough, and her tests are fair. I studied a few days before tests and got an A in both classes. I took her for both Molecular Cell and Genetics.

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Shes a great teacher.. study her notes that she writes on the board. Yes she lectures slowly.. but she wants to get her point across. These students should be happy there is a teacher that enjoys giving silly examples of things and writes on the board. Not everyone is going to learn like you. She enjoys learning and you can tell. Great teacher!

I like the slower paced lectures. I had time to write information that way. She cares about students and wants them to learn. She will meet with students outside of office hours and she always replied to my e-mails. Sometimes it took some time. I think that she is a great teacher and cares more than most people.

Explains things very clearly and gives great examples/analogies to help you remember. Good about helping students with extra office hours, answering emails, etc. She does go a little slowly but you can tell she really cares about her students learning and understanding the material. Test/HW questions can be confusing but overall not difficult.

Notes were clear. However, her tests are very hard. Puts a lot of the small details on them, things no one pays attention to. Also, has questions on the tests that aren't in her notes OR in the book. Study guides don't help.

She was wonderful

I'm so glad Dr. Howe is my instructor this semester. She does a great job of explaining the material, knows her stuff and uses analogies to explain things. I never feel bored in class... just focused. She's just calm. The class I have before hers is taught by a total psycho, so I greatly appreciate her calm energy!

I really wanted to do well in this class, I got an A in all other courses this semester (O Chem, Calc, etc). Nothing I could do to get an A, her tests seemed VERY inconsistent, and changed the formatting on each test. The final was open book and had material I could not find in the book or all of my notes. Very mediocre instructor, sadly. But nice

Loved her! Best teacher I've ever had.

Super nice

I've had Howe for both 201 and 202. She is very knowledgeable and definitely knows how to teach these subjects and make them easy to comprehend. Her exams are some of the easiest exams I've ever seen as long as you've studied and used the practice exam material. She is extremely clear on expectations and very helpful when you need her!

Dr. Howe is beyond amazing, she helps everyone of her students and she is the most friedly professor I ever encountered. I recommend this class to any bio majors interested in cell bio, tests are take home can't beat that

Kelly is absolutely fantastic. She goes fairly slowly but she ensure that we really grasp the concepts. She is always happy to meet outside of class for additional assistance. She even met with me after I had completed her class to help me with related work for another class. She is very helpful and clear a subject matter expert in genetics

Honestly, I was better off studying on my own than attending her class. The practice exams are worthless and it would take her days to email me back when I had a question.

Bland lectures, the small group presentations were some of the most tedious hours of my life, but her tests were so easy. It's an easy upper level level credit.

She's really nice and helpful in lecture, but when it comes to the tests it's like the material slaps you in the face. Her in-class questions are really easy but her test questions are a whole new level.

Didn't go to lecture often but instead went to her office hours, which can be better. She is really cool and perky!

I recommend that students should be engaged during all her lectures. This should cut your studying time in half. I literally didn’t put any effort on studying for any of her tests and still pass her class. Awesome professor, she loves to teach her subject and I definitely got my money’s worth.

Dr. Howe is a good teacher. She goes over all the information needed for tests. Her lectures can be hard to follow because she jumps all over the place. If you pay attention and take good notes you'll be good. There's minimal use of the book, you could borrow it from the library instead of paying for it.

Good at explaining, well structured class. Proportionally difficult tests. She's so nice as well. She seems like she's there for you, which is hard to find nowadays.

Doctor Howe is a great professor if you're taking genetics at UNM take it with her

She is a good, not great professor. Fair and easy going.

Dr. Howe really knows her stuff. There is a lot of work in this class, but it keeps you on track. Her tests are hard-ish if you don't do any of her assignments, but there is extra credit built in so its not too awful.

Kelly was a very knowledgable professor. Her lectures were straight to the point and the class was set up so you knew exactly what was expected of you. She was also very helpful if you had questions. Don't get me wrong, I worked hard in this class, but just go to class and pay attention and you will get a good grade.

I've heard people say that she's a bit boring, but she IS NOT. She's funny and a very good teacher. Her lectures really helped me understand the textbook. She's really big on active learning and group work so make allies. The examples she gives in class are really helpful as well. Tests weren't too hard, but studying was still required to get an A.

Great professor. Really knows her stuff and is very helpful, but the material is confusing. She kind of goes on tangents and it's hard to follow in class. I spent a lot of time in her office hours and going over material on my own because it's just kind of confusing sometimes. Tough class and tests are hard but I got an A.

You MUST read in this class. She is very helpful in her office hours. Her lectures are long and I got nothing out of them and had my friends carry me through her "Assesments." If I had to go back, I would most definitely read the readings she assigned us AHEAD of class so that when I did come to class, every thing would have made sense.

I really enjoyed Kelly! She wants students to focus on applying the concepts in order to make inferences rather than just memorizing a bunch of facts. So study by doing practice problems first and foremost. Her test/homework questions can be extremely vague but if you just ask her to clarify she absolutely 10/10 will. She's always willing to help

Dr. Howe starts the semester off with easy material and lots of support, but the second half of the semester is confusing. Her 4th exam is unfairly difficult compared to the other three exams, and the material from the first half is so simplistic and slow-moving that the second half of the course seems like a completely different course.

She's an excellent teacher and uses good examples. There are lots of assignments that can get confusing, but her tests are very clear. Just make sure you take notes on what she lectures in class!

Fairly easy, if you understand how genetics and how DNA replicates, know the concept and vocab you're great. Reading quizzes but very manageable once a week. Some group work but mostly discussion. I missed a week once and did not suffer, end is tougher but nothing to worry about. If you find it hard honestly might want to switch your major.

Dr. Howe really knows her stuff and is very willing to help. If you come to lectures and study hard you will do excellent. Remember: come to lectures! What she covers in class is exactly what she tests on and some of it is not in the textbook. Overall great class with a great teacher.

Dr. Howe is very intelligent and knows her material. She breaks it down in a simple way that is easy to understand. Her tests are a different story. They are extremely confusing and dont make a lot of sense. Make sure you know your material front and backward if you take her.

This class is super easy, and its all online! Every single assignment/test you do is on my biology lab, and every answer from the tests is on quizlet. She is super nice and gives lots of reminders of when things are due. She isn't very helpful though when it comes to mybiolab. All in all she is a great teacher with little work at all.

Dr. Howe is the is the most caring prof I've had at UNM! She explains confusing concepts clearly and always reviews. She lets you know exactly what will be addressed on exams, and is always willing to clarify (because her questions can be confusing). Exams are mostly over her lecture slides, and her practice exams are very similar to actual exams.

Dr. Howe is a very approachable person. She gives you a lot of resources on Learn outside of the text and slides. BEWARE: her final is brutal. I went into the final with an A and ended the class with a B+. Her lectures are clear and in class activities help a lot.

Dr. Howe is an amazing professor. If you get lost she is more than willing to clarify. She is very sweet so don't be afraid to go to her office hours or ask questions. She really cares about her students. I would 100% recommend taking her for 201L and 202L. Her analogies are very helpful. Make sure to study for tests.

Dr. Howe is one of the few professors that I consistently went to office hours to see. She was extremely approachable and actually helped you understand the material. Her lectures are great and informative but you must use all of your resources for the exams. Her exams are difficult but not impossible to pass. Using the textbook really helps!

I consider Dr. Howe to be the mother of Bio to me. She's very helpful and gives informative lectures. Do her study guides, all of them, while you keep up with the readings. They prepare you for the exams. I printed them out and filled it in as I read along. She does have an odd way of phrasing, but once you get used to it, it isn't bad at all.

Would definitely recommend this professor. She's approachable, thorough in her lectures, and made the weekly quizzes open book. She cares about the students in her class.

Sometimes homework assignments were hard to understand what she was asking. However, if you follow the study guide you will do great. She is the most approachable professor in the biology department. Super nice

Great at lectures, but difficult tests sometimes.

I love love love Dr. Howe! She's probably the best professor I've had in the bio department as well as UNM as a whole. Very thorough, always connecting concepts with great examples. She's funny and quirky and very understanding but still strict enough. I can't wait to take principles of gene expression with her.

With respect to all the bad ratings, I'm unsure of how Dr.Howe was as a lecturer in previous years. I had Dr.Howe for genetics and she was always open to meeting with me aside from office hours to assist with the questions I had, she did this multiple times and clearly explained anything I was confused about. I highly recommend her and Dr.Joo

Amazing professor! She really cares about us and succeeding in her class. She listens to feedback and gives opportunity for extra credit, also one of the few professors that is easily accessible and offers lots of study groups outside of class. It is very easy if you are able to take good notes and listen actively to her lectures.

Prof is kind- always willing to answer questions & offer opportunities for students to succeed. Use the subject study guides she posts and find quizlets online to study for the mc tests. There is hw bi-weekly, in class collaborative quizzes (dates given in advance), and weekly reading quizzes on Canvas. Not too difficult if you've taken bio before.

Lectures weren't bad, I just didn't take notes on anything. I watched videos outside of class and still ended on an A+. She's pretty cool, the content is super interesting to me. Just make sure to know everything on her slides because she pulls questions from those. The final exam was also extremely easy. Howe is a little above average I'd say

Dr. Howe gives you detailed study guides and practice exams. She also has you work problems in class that are pretty similar to exam questions. She didn't always respond to e-mails but I just sent them again and she would finally write back. The lectures were interesting and she cares alot about students.

The 1140 class is so interesting and she knows so much stuff. It's hard to remember all of it though. I'm failing exams but doing good on the other assignments so the grade seems ok. I love being in the class and learning so much. I wish I was a biology major now.

Awesome lady! Fun lectures and will engage with students by sometimes having demonstrations that use students. More extra credit options than regular assignments. Very easy to get an A and supplies many test reviews, both at your pace slides as well as zoom reviews.

I personally adored her. I found her introductory course accessible and comprehensive, and her lectures made a lot of sense to me. I highly recommend her for beginner classes, but I can't speak for her higher level courses.

Dr. Howe is very kind, and her experience as a lecturer is evident. We had 6 exams with the lowest being dropped, and every exam had extra credit opportunities. The amount of extra credit varied, with the lowest being 2 points on the exam to 7 at the highest, and each exam is 40 points. If you go to lecture, and simply pay attention, you'll do well

Professor Howe is a good lecturer. If you show up to class, take notes, read the book you'll definitely get an A. She also gives extra credit and tries her best as a lecturer. You can tell when a teacher cares, attend her OH, the TA, and SPF and you'll do fine. The workload was reasonable but attend lectures.

Dr. Howe is very passionate about her topics. Slide shows are pretty vague so you should go to class and take notes on her explaining the topics. She moves EXTREMELY fast in lectures but has good explanations. There are 6 tests but one gets dropped and she has extra credit usually before and after each. Super easy to pass, go to TA hours as well.

Dr. Howe was really approachable and provided a wide variety of resources for students to help study. She posts study guides that prepare you well for the exams in the course, and drops your lowest exam score at the end of the semester. Take advantage of the resources she provides beyond attending the lecture, and you will learn so much.

LOVE LOVE LOVE this women. she made everything so simple and easy to learn. explained everything in great debt and really tried to get you to understand. she is the sweetest too. I am not one to retake a class ever but I would retake this in a heartbeat it really really started my love for bio.

Kelly was a very caring professor who wants you to succeed. Gave lots of chances for extra credit. Show up to class and go to TA sessions and DO THE REVIEWS

Kelly is a really good professor and made molecular and cellular bio really interesting for someone interested in other parts of bio. The exams where very difficult but she offers a lot of extra credit. Just show up, do the exam reviews with the TAs and do the weekly reading quizzes and you will do good.

Six exams throughout the semester, which can be very stressful. She was kind and offered lots of extra credit opportunities, which really helped my grade. She wants to see you succeed and gives you the opportunity to do so.

I thought that she was phenomenal. If you redo the questions on slides and use study guides you will be fine on tests. And participation counts a lot and you just have to be there and participate for the grade. I finally go to class.

LIVE LAUGH KELLY HOWE!

Dr. Howe is passionate sweet person. Her assignments were clearly laid out. Wonderful lectures, but need to be supplemented by reading textbook bc some test questions weren't in the lecture. Gives good answers to questions asked. Great after-class study sessions. Doesn't accept late work

Dr. Howe's BIO2101 class is a solid but demanding course. The lectures are clear, and extra credit opportunities can help offset the difficulty. Using unstuckstudy alongside the textbook is a great study strategy for acing the exams.

Dr. Howe is honestly the best instructor I've ever had in any subject. She teaches fast, but pulls material straight from the lectures for all of her exams. Reading is heavy-ish but never takes more than a few hours. She also offers a lot of extra credit. You can tell that Dr. Howe genuinely cares about her students and wants to see them succeed.

Best professor I have ever had. I had a horrible experience at UNM but her character and teaching skills would 100% encourage me to come back. She is extremely caring and compassionate.

I took Dr. Howe's BIOL2101, and it is quiz and exam heavy but there are SO many opportunities for help, Kelly is so caring and easy to talk to. Her lectures can be a little spacey, fast paced, and hard to understand, but she gives so many resources if you show up to class and prepare for the exams you will be good. drops bad grades too

Dr. Howe is a caring professor who cares for her students' success. There are 6 exams throughout the semester, but she gives a lot of extra credit opportunities and drops the lowest score for one of the exams. I suggest reading the textbook and using the study guides she provides as well as any outside resources in order to do well in class.

She is an amazing professor who truly wants students to succeed. You get multiple reading quizzes and lecture participation grades dropped and a 1/6 test scores dropped. The tests are difficult but manageable. There are plenty of learning assistant office hours each day and study guides are provided for tests.

She really cares about student success and drops your lowest exam score, and gives extra credit AND curves all exams!! Lectures cover only the base material, the exams are mostly based off the textbook so make sure to study the textbook more than anything else :) amazing prof overall though

Awesome professor. Lectures are synthesized from the text, meaning the text is largely not needed (I didn't open the textbook all semester). Best 5 of 6 exams; no final. Score high on the first 5 and you can no show the last 3 weeks of class. She's super kind and helpful and gives a lot of extra credit. Material is tricky - use Anki as a study aid

Kelly Howe is a great biology teacher. She actually takes time to explain everything in depth. 6 exams sounds like a lot but they're fairly easy and she gives HELLA extra credit opportunities. Only 1 online quiz due every week and a few discussions. Had a 102% in this class the entire time. She is amazing and really cares about teaching. Loved her.

This class is difficult but if you study enough you will do well. She gives TONS of extra credit. Beware the last two exams are definitely the hardest so study hard for those ones. Overall a very good professor I recommend.

I took Howe for genetics. Great lectures. She had the exams set up to be half group work, half solo. During the group work section, the students who didn't show up to lectures were totally lost and asking those of us who did show up how to do everything. Just show up to lecture and study the concepts and you'll nail it. She's nice and helpful.

Nice teacher that was willing to listen to student feedback and fair grader. I didn't feel the need to open the text book as the lectures covered all material that was on the exams. Weekly quizzes were easy as long as you pay attention.

Dr. Howe was a very good professor i had not payed attention to originally. Towards the end of the semester I locked in and realized how good of a professor she was. As long as you attend class, you will pass. Lectures use much of the books material.

Dr. Howe is a very good lecturer, but goes sorta fast through material. 6 "unit" tests with 1 dropped: no final (which is AWESOME). She cares about biology and it shows

Kelly was great! This class can have difficult content at times, but the tests are not very difficult if you study. Take advantage of the peer tutor hours, they are very helpful and do reviews for the tests.

A very easy class of u show up or just review the slides. 4 missed classes allowed, 2 dropped exams out of 6. Always offers extra credit. I didn't read the textbook and did just fine.

Dr. Howe is a very nice professor and she gives her students many opportunities to pass the class with clear grading criteria. There's a lot of reading and quizzes, but as long as you attend lecture and do the readings you'll be fine.