Gary Villa, Ph.D.

https://www.lynn.edu/campus-directory/people/gary-villa

Russian, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Monterey, CA

B.A., Russian area studies, University of Missouri

B.S., Biological Sciences, University of Missouri

Ph.D., Marine Biology and Molecular Evolution, Stanford University

• Evolutionary theory
• Molecular evolution
• Marine biology
• Ecological and evolutionary relationships
• Forensic investigation marine ecology

• Russian linguist in military intelligence in the U.S. Army. 
• Worked for five years as a police officer. 
• Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, CA: teaching assistant, particularly for the subtidal communities and underwater research courses, for which he won Stanford's Excellence in Teaching Award.
• University of California, Irvine: designed and taught eight courses in marine biology a year for two years
• Florida Atlantic University: taught primarily on the introductory majors' courses, but also taught upper-division and graduate courses in genetics and evolutionary theory for two years

• Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year Award, Lynn University, 2014-2015
• Miller Scholar
• Ronald E. McNair Undergraduate Research Fellow
• Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Fellow
• Excellence in Teaching Award, Stanford University, Department of Biological Sciences
• Top Academic Performance Award, Law Enforcement Training Center
• Army Service Award