Rate My Professor Rebekah Chapman

Chapman also oversees undergraduate internships within the department and supervises occasional research projects in ecology and plant biology. Her fieldwork portfolio includes conservation and restoration initiatives in Córdoba, Argentina as part of her doctoral work, studies in island ecology on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and various local projects in Atlanta, Georgia. She actively partners with faculty members and student organizations to promote ecological research and sustainability efforts both on the university campus and in surrounding communities. Chapman is instrumental in developing inquiry-based curricula for biological and ecological topics. As the community coordinator and a certified trainer for the Georgia Adopt a Stream program, she regularly engages in local stream monitoring activities and contributes to ecological and educational outreach programs that extend the university's impact beyond academia. Chapman leads the Tropical Island Ecology Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE), where students engage in assessment of coral reef recovery after significant storm damage. She represents Georgia State University on the University System of Georgia's Academic Committee for Biological Sciences.