Blair knows what he is talking about, he is more than willing to clarify topics you are unsure of and his tests are a fair and easy assessment of your knowledge.

He's a great professor. His text was kind of obnoxiously hard, but I think that's the course coordinator's doing. He's intelligent, entertaining, and very clear. Good prof.

he is fun, excited about material. but scatterd lectures at times and the exam was not easy.

very good lectures, he does jump around but he always makes it interesting with lame jokes. exam was fairly hard but overall an interesting prof.

Great lectures. He gets very involved in his teaching and he is obviously very excited about biology. He also loves to show quick time clips where he adds his own sound effects, and for all you star trek fans he will probably compare biology to something seen in a star trek. Easy to approach. Very much a Hippie professor pony tail and all.

Absolutely loves his job. Going to lecture is useful but his notes tend to be a bit scattered and disorganized. Really makes an attempt to ensure that students understand the material, but the exam wasn't cake.

Great Professor. Loves his work and gets really excited about it. He's easy to listen to in a lecture. Although his notes aren't the best, they are understandable, especially if you go to lecture. His quizzes were pretty easy and his exam was cake. The average for the class on his exam was a high B (85%).

Actually makes Bio151 interesting and worth going to lecture for, doesn't cover that much material and explains it well, so exams are easy. Funny guy

Good professor whose passionate about what he does. Go to lecture and pay attention, and you'll be golden for the exam. Everything on exam is from lecture, so it's not difficult at all. Plus you get a notecard, so if you do the work you'll do fine. Definitely recommended!

I like him! Very passionate during lectures. His lectures are clear to understand and materials he shows cover all of what he asks you in exams. I highly recommend attending every lecture. You really don't need to read textbook if you take good notes and pay attention to his words. Other students I know all think he's a decent teacher as well.

Professor Blair is the best professor I've had so far! He's passionate about biology, clear in his explanations, and doesn't expect you to memorize details. He has a good sense of humor and really wants you to do well. Tests are extremely easy, and you get a notecard too! If you attend lecture and read some of the book, you'll get an A.

GOOD PROFESSOR. Need to attend lectures AND pay attention because all exam material comes straight from lecture. No need to touch the textbook if you go to lecture. Very enthusiastic about topic so easy to listen to. Just copy down all of PP and listen and you'll do fine. You get a notecard for exam so pretty easy. Recommended!

What a fantastic professor! His lectures are extremely clear and organized, with nicely laid out powerpoints. Also very clear and helpful about what is expected on exams. He loves teaching his subjects and it shows. He's also pretty entertaining and energetic as a lecturer which helps, definitely recommend him.

He's great! He makes jokes all the time during lecture so it's easy to pay attention. He's obsessed with videos of biological processes. His tests were pretty fair, they can be tricky sometimes, and you do have to know what they're asking you about. But his classes were always fun to attend.

great

Prof Blair is very knowledgable about what he teaches, and he clearly loves it. He is good at explaining concepts, but I thought his tests were really hard and had really complicated and tricky wording. He uses lots of clicker questions which is fun, and he makes lots of strange (but distracting in a good way) jokes. Definitely take him for bio 151

Erratic professor. Interesting guy but not very clear. Talks fast, scatter-brained.Seems to try to make tests complicated and memorize minute details, not important concepts.

Blair has extremely lively lectures that follow directly from his quirky personality. He's very approachable and very helpful when it comes to getting your questions answered. As long as you go to lecture and spend at least a little bit of time studying, his exams are very easy. Overall, Blair is a great professor.

Dr. Blair was one of my favorite professors so far at Madison. This was a required class for me that didn't relate to my major, but the lectures were still incredibly interesting. His exams weren't necessarily easy, but manageable if you go to lecture and at least skim the readings. I learned much more than I expected.

This dude LOVES biology.

As a engineering student, biology was a class I had to take even though it does not relate to my career whatsoever. His enthusiasm, humor, and interest in the topics covered made the lectures worth while to attend. Some tricky test question, but study up, its college.

First test was easy, second quite a bit harder. The tests were a lot more about applying knowledge logically than regurgitating facts. Only go off what he presents in lectures, the book is helpful for explaining through diagrams but that's about it. He is fun to listen to in lecture and makes concepts very clear.

He is a good lecturer and covered the material well. Exams were harder than the material presented because a majority of the exams are applying the concepts rather than just memorizing facts. The organization of the class is horrible and covers a lot of seemingly random topics in the same unit that makes the exams harder.

No complaints. Exam was fair. Gave lecture notes for each lecture. Used powerpoints that were also posted online.

Only study the lecture notes, book material goes way more in depth then the exam. I would still kinda readskim the book, but only focus on the parts that he covered in class(he gives way more required readings than what is on the exam). Make sure you know the lecture notes REALLY well. He sometimes puts iclicker questions on the exam.

He's a really funny and interesting lecturer. Gives a lot of opportunities to meet with him outside of class.

Lectures are pretty easy to follow, as notes and power point slides are available to students before each lecture. Take notes directly on the printed out power point slides! Dr. Blair tends to speak fast, but he starts off each lecture with a brief review of the previous lecture. Co-taught with Tony Stretton, and both offer 2nd chance exams.

Dr. Blair is a good lecturer, he knows his stuff well. I would download the power points and take notes on a laptop, really cuts down on having to copy stuff and he has a tendency to talk fast. Everything important is on those slides. All in all a fine professor, but be ready to put in work, 151 is not curved and As are hard.

It's not super easy to get an A in, but with my average amount of effort I got an AB. Lab reports are graded pretty harshly and worth a lot of points. Lectures were pretty good, but reading the assigned textbook chapters was necessary for me to fully understand the material. Exams are not horrible (you get a huge notecard), but there is no curve.

Blair has a pretty straight-forward teaching style. Going to lecture and following along his powerpoints is crucial to doing well. Ppts and lecture audio are always on Lean@uw. I would suggest downloading the powerpoints and taking notes directly on them, on your laptop. He can go very fast sometimes. All-in-all, a great professor.

While Blair didn't exactly point at the words and ideas you needed to know and scream, "KNOW FOR TEST," he bolded the words he thought are important. Study the lectures (powerpoints) and know vocabulary, and you'll pass the lecture portion of the class with flying colors.

He's genuinely enthusiastic about the course material and reenforces important topics across multiple lectures. He usually limits the test contents to lecture material, and the lecture slides are very clear and accessible online for further review.

Everything you need to know is on the lecture slides. I never opened the book once. But you have to make sure you know how to apply the material to different situations and scenarios; it's not just questions about definition.

Seth's lectures can be fast and hard to keep up with, but he explains things well. Power-points and lecture notes are available online which are very helpful and have all the material that is on the exam. His exam covers more content than the first 3, so make sure you keep up with it. He also takes questions right off the problem sets so do those.

Seth Blair is a great lecturer for a rather miserable class. The content wasn't terribly interesting, but Seth's lectures were always organized and he seemed very knowledgeable about the subject. Textbook wasn't required, but I would recommend it since it covers things in greater detail.

Dr. Blair sometimes went off topic in class, but he tried to keep lectures interesting. He put almost everything you need to know on the slides and posts the slides. Focus your time on knowing the information on the slides rather than reading the book. Discussion quizzes were a little difficult, but aren't worth much. Tests were multiple choice.

Dr Blair was a great prof for Zoo 523. Tough material but he explains it well and his exams are very fair. He assigned interesting outside reading but the exams were still lecture based which was appreciated. He's goofy enough to keep you entertained but still a professional. Highly recommend him!

Great guy, great material, all around phenomenal class. Loved it. Grading criteria is rough. The class is 90% exams, ultimately your entire grade is based off 200 multiple choice questions. This is one of those classes where you get half of what you give, that's the nature of the material. Get ready to get to know your local librarian very well.

Everything you need to know for an exam is on the lecture slides. If he has study guides available, do them! They make you think about the content in more depth, given that the exams are pretty detailed. Funny nerdy guy

Dr. Blair was a pretty decent professor. The exams are very specific so make sure you know your stuff! But on the plus side there is never anything on the exam that is not talked about during lecture. The textbook while considered necessary really isnt unless you need more clarification on certain topics.

He taught the first half of my Bio151 class and was WAY better than the second lecturer. The class was hard, but that was because of the material, not Dr. Blair. The lecture were okay, nothing to write home about, but he gave you the slides from class and 90% of the test was from lectures.

Professor Blair clearly cared about students succeeding and was extremely knowledgable. His tests and quizzes were very challenging and based mostly off of lecture notes. If you stay on top of studying and prepare for exams ahead of time they weren't that bad.

Amazing lecture slides. He makes you love biology but is a little fast paces because of the course.

Seth is great when it comes to office hours (if you have a specific question in mind) but his lecturing style is rough so your textbook is going to be your best friend. His exams arent easy to read and he goes off-topic a lot. He's clearly very educated, just not the easiest to listen to or communicate with.

Filling Dr. Gilroys shoes for the second part of the course must not be easy, but Dr. Blair was amazing too! He is very knowledgeable and is genuinely interested in student success. The material for the exams is all covered in lecture, so there is no need for buying a textbook.

I loved 151 with Dr. Blair, I'm so sad that we're switching professors. He makes the content interesting, even when the subject matter is painfully boring. The class itself is easy, it's just a lot of textbook readings and the labs are really annoying. Overall I would for sure take a class with Dr. Blair again.

I really liked Dr. Blair, he was very enthusiastic and brought a lot of energy to lecture. His slides/explanations could've been clearer, and he does have a tendency to go on tangents that leave you wondering what exactly you will be tested on, but I think overall he did a good job teaching the content and being approachable.

Out of all 151 professors, not my least favorite but not my favorite. Easy to follow his slides but hard to stay focused all 50 minutes. Exams were fair. He was always accessible and was clear on what we should know for quizzes and exams.

Good professor, but a little hard to follow in class. Slides were messy, and lecture felt slow so it was hard to stay focused in class for the full 50 minutes. Exams followed lecture content well, and textbook was referred to but not necessary to read (in my opinion).

I personally like Dr. Blair. I thought his lectures weren't too unclear about what we needed to know for exam and he seemed enthusiastic about the content which made lecture more bearable.

Prof Blair was great! His slides are a bit ugly and his lectures are a bit disorganized, but it's not impossible to learn from if you can comb through his logic before studying it. He explained things well outside of lectures, though not the most clear but you can tell that he cares about his students' success. Loved his hats!

he explained material very well and made going to class at least a little bit entertaining. he spent a lot of time on each slide which was helpful if you process slower and to draw diagrams. wasn't the best but he explained thoroughly and I could figure out what was going on for the most part. assignments were based off lecture which was good.

Attendance taken through TopHat which you can access from anywhere. Blair is an amazing and fun teacher. I love his slides and the funny hats he wears every lecture. He cares a lot about biology. Great teacher, wish he taught all semester instead of 2/3!

Nice guy and threw in jokes during lecture. His slides were somewhat disorganized which made lectures hard to follow sometimes, especially during the genetics unit. Exams were fair and only based on lecture material so buying the textbook isn't necessary IMO. I did the LLOs and rewatched the lectures to study and got decent scores.

I liked Prof. Blair as a lecturer. His section of Bio 151 could maybe be slightly more challenging than the other two sections as genetics can be confusing but his lectures made sense and were organized, and his exam was decent. Overall nice guy

He's a super nice and funny guy who always made lectures engaging. He provided lots of examples for each topic which helped me understand the information better. The exam was very fair and was based off the lectures.

He is the best lecturer I've ever had. He explains things very well, understands them very well, and doesn't just read off his powerpoint slides, He talks about the underlying ideas instead of asking you to just rote memorize. Very fast paced class for intro to biology, and without having taken AP bio in high school I would have been a goner.

One of my all time favorite professors. Absolutely loved his energy and his hats of the day, he is super passionate about biology, and I found his lecture format really informative. Office hours are super helpful and his tests are very doable if you keep up with lecture and do the reading.

Dr. Blair is clearly a competent and passionate professor who tries to make lectures as engaging as possible. That being said, lectures can get boring and dense, so make sure to reference the lecture learning objectives before and after class. Attendance is rewarded by getting to marvel at the wacky hats he always wears, which is a plus!

I really liked Dr. Blair. His lectures were easy to follow and fairly engaging. What we needed to know for the exams was clear, and the exams themselves were very fair.

Dr Blair was a good professor and has an awesome hat collection. His slides were a little unorganized but all lectures and slides were posted online after class so it helped when retaking notes from lecture. Overall, effective prof and the knowledge expected on exams was made clear.

Dr. Blair is one of those professors who you can tell loves what he does. So much so that he will talk a little over the lecture time. I don't blame him since there was a lot of content and it was difficult. I think as long as you go to office hours and review your notes, you should be ok. Plus, he's got some fun hats!

Throughout the entire unit I felt very overwhelmed because I didn't know what would be included on the exam. He talked a lot about the history and scientists behind the topics, which I felt could have been omitted, but you could tell he truly loves what he teaches, and the exam was very representative of what we learned in lecture.

Blair is one of the three professors for Bio 151 and he is overall a solid professor. The content that he teaches is genetics and although it is a fairly dull portion of the semester, he makes things clear and easy to understand. The labs required some outside class hours but the TAs are also helpful to guide you through completing lab reports!

Really cool prof