{"id":4434,"date":"2020-11-09T15:40:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developmenttwo.marymount.edu\/staff-members\/todd-rimkus\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T16:32:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T16:32:28","slug":"todd-rimkus","status":"publish","type":"staff-member","link":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/staff-members\/todd-rimkus\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Rimkus"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n \r\n
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Academic Credentials<\/b><\/p>\n
B.S. , University of Illinois
\nM.S., Ph.D., Iowa State University<\/p>\n
Biography<\/b><\/p>\n
Other Information<\/b><\/p>\n \nDr. Todd Rimkus is the faculty advisor for the Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society and the Belize Service Club. He also works closely with local elementary through high schools in an outreach program designed to generate further interest in the sciences. He has a program that allows freshwater turtles to be maintained in classrooms in Virginia, DC, and Maryland whereby the students and teachers contribute to the research by taking the growth measurements of their animals and uploading them to the central database back at Marymount University. In addition to these animals being housed in the schools, Dr. Todd Rimkus often visits the schools with his reptilian ontourage.\u00a0 Children getting the opportunity to interact with these animals up close might just turn a few into future research scientists.\u00a0<\/p>\n \nDr. Todd Rimkus has made a commitment to the small community of Gales Point Belize.\u00a0 In 2009, Dr. Todd Rimkus along with a group of Marymount Study Abroad Students founded the charity Hawksbill Hope.\u00a0 Hawksbill Hope accepts donations to further the turtle research in Belize and has expanded to fund projects in the community and even more recently to ensure that children in Gales Point Belize have the opportunity to have their high school tuition covered as they become Hawksbill Hope Scholars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Teaching Area<\/b><\/p>\n Dr. Todd Rimkus was honored by the class of 2017 with the Robert A. Draghi Outstanding Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching.\u00a0 His goal in teaching is to engage and bring the subject to life for his students.\u00a0 Dr. Todd Rimkus was trained as a physiologist so he always wants his students to inquire about how the systems accomplish their amazing feats.\u00a0 Finally, Dr. Todd Rimkus has been teaching a hands-on course in Belize each summer since 2007.\u00a0 In 2011, the group started satellite tagging sea turtles.\u00a0 The interaction with a sea turtle and getting an up-close look at these fascinating creatures is an experience of a lifetime.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Research Interests<\/b><\/p>\n Dr. Todd Rimkus has served Marymount University as a faculty member since 1996. He has chaired the Biology & Physical Science Program since 2000.\u00a0 Dr. Todd Rimkus was trained in animal physiology at Iowa State University. He is actively involved with undergraduate research at Marymount University, engaging the students in research in the areas of growth and development of turtles. Dr. Todd Rimkus contributed a chapter on water exchange to a snapping turtle book and has also presented at local and national conferences on a variety of topics related to turtle growth and development.\u00a0 Dr. Todd Rimkus has presented at the International Sea Turtle Symposium with students several times.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Publications<\/b><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":317,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"staff-member-category":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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