Michelle Murphy
- Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences
Contact Info
- Email: michelle.murphy@UND.edu
- Office: 701.777.4217
Office Address
School of Medicine & Health Sciences Suite W226
1301 North Columbia Road Stop 9037
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9037
Biography
A graduate of the Air Force ROTC program out of the University of Illinois, Michelle Murphy was stationed at Minot AFB in 1991 and has been a faculty member within the North Dakota University System since that time. While on active duty with the Air Force, she also taught Anatomy and Physiology night courses at Minot State University. From there she separated from the service and attended graduate school at UND, earning a MS degree in Physiology in 1998. While a graduate student, she taught for three years as a teaching assistant in the Department of Physiology. During that time she also taught for Lake Region State College on Grand Forks AFB. In 2000 she started teaching online with Lake Region State College, continuing in that role until 2024. In 2017 she joined the Physician Assistant program at UND as community faculty, teaching Physiology and Pathophysiology. In 2022 Dr. Murphy completed her PhD in Teaching and Learning: Instructional Design & Technology. In 2024 she joined the Department of Biomedical Sciences as an Assistant Professor, teaching online and SPEA (self paced) sections of BIMD 220/221 Human Anatomy and Physiology, as well as continuing her teaching role with the Physician Assistant Department, facilitating medical student PCL group sessions, and teaching in the Biomedical Sciences graduate program. Her research focuses on student development of mental models of physiology core concepts to support problem solving in pathophysiological scenarios. In addition to teaching, she has clinical experience working in corporate pharmaceutical research.
Systems Modeling/Active Learning in Physiology Education
Publications:
Murphy, M.P., & Hung, W. (in press). Using systems modeling to facilitate undergraduate physiology student learning and retention of difficult concepts. Advances in Physiology Education.
Murphy, M.P., & Hung, W. (2024). Using text mining to elucidate mental models of problem spaces for ill-structured problems. TechTrends. DOI: 10.1007/s11528-024-00951-4
Murphy, M.P., & Hung, W. (2024). Perceived benefit of active over passive strategies for pathophysiology learning and retention among physician assistant students. Journal of Physician Assistant Education, 35(2), 182-186. DOI: 10.1097/JPA.0000000000000570
Murphy, M.P., & Hung, W. (2023). Exploring progressive mental model representation of core physiology concepts in physician assistant students through word frequency and association analyses. Advances in Physiology Education, 47, 673-683. https://doi:10.1152/advan.00124.2022
Murphy, M.P., & Hung, W. (2023). Systems thinking and modeling: From butterfly posture to artificial intelligence. TechTrends, 67, 813-821. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-023-00891-5
Hung, W., & Murphy, M.P. (2021). Instructional models in course design. In Rudestam, K.E., Schnoenholtz-Read, J., & Snowden, M.L. (Eds.), Handbook of online learning in higher education (pp. 277-303). Fielding University Press.
Presentations:
Murphy, M.P. (2024, May 29). Promoting student physiology core concept mental model development through systems thinking and modeling [Workshop]. Human Anatomy and Physiology Society Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO.
Murphy, M.P. (2024, April 10). Systems biology: Physiology + genomics [Seminar]. Department of Biomedical Sciences Student Seminar, UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND.
Murphy, M.P. (2024, March 26). Systems thinking and modeling in physiology education [Seminar]. Department of Biomedical Sciences Seminar, UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND.
Murphy, M.P. & Hung, W. (2023, May 5). Facilitating physiology threshold concepts development with systems modeling: A longitudinal study using R text mining [Conference session]. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Virtual Session.
Murphy, M.P. (2023, April 21). Open Science Framework (OSF) as a platform for OER collaboration and distribution [Workshop]. North Dakota General Education Council Summit, Minot State University, Minot, ND.
Murphy, M.P. & Hung, W. (2022, December 1). Assessing meaning with text mining in R [Workshop]. University College Bedër, Tirana, Albania.
Murphy, M.P. & Hung, W. (2022, October 26). Facilitating physiology student mental model development through systems modeling [Roundtable session]. Association for Educational Communications and Technology Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.
Murphy, M.P. (2022, September 15). Facilitating physiology student mental model development through systems modeling [Seminar session]. Teaching, Learning and Scholarship Faculty Development Series, UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND.
Murphy, M.P., & Hung, W. (2022, May 24). Constructing system models to bolster threshold concept mental model accuracy [Conference session]. North Dakota State University Teaching and Learning Conference, Fargo, ND.
Murphy, M.P., & Hung, W. (2022, April 25). Using systems modeling in facilitating undergraduate integration of physiological concepts [Poster presentation]. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Murphy, M.P., & Hung, W. (2022, April 23). Ranked benefit of active study strategies among physician assistant students [Conference session]. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Murphy, M.P., & Hung, W. (2022, April 21). Ranked benefit of active study strategies among physician assistant students [Poster presentation]. Frank Low Research Day, UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND.
Murphy, M.P., & Hung, W. (2022, April 7). Ranked benefit of active study strategies among physician assistant students [Conference session]. University of North Dakota College of Education and Human Development Research Fair, Grand Forks, ND.
Murphy, M.P., & Hung, W. (2022, April 7). Using systems modeling in facilitating undergraduate integration of physiological concepts [Poster presentation]. University of North Dakota College of Education and Human Development Research Fair, Grand Forks, ND.
Murphy, M., Estenson, K., & Haugland, G. (2020, August 19). Flex Training: HyFlex [Training session]. Lake Region State College Faculty Inservice, Devils Lake, ND.
Santini-Levenhagen, J., Murphy, M., Estenson, K., & Driessen, D. (2018, July 19). There is no try – only do: Thriving during technological change [Conference session]. Blackboard World, Orlando, FL.
Murphy, M.P., Adkins, S.D., Samson, W.K., & Vari R.C. (1998, April). The role of adrenomedullin in the natriuretic response to acute and chronic salt loading in the rat [Poster presentation]. FASEB, San Francisco, CA.
Murphy, M.P., Adkins, S.D., Samson, W.K., & Vari R.C. (1998). The role of adrenomedullin in the natriuretic response to acute and chronic salt loading in the rat [Poster presentation]. Frank Low Research Day, UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND
Murphy, M.P., Samson, W.K., & Vari R.C. (1997). Porcine adrenomedullin (26-52) attenuates the natriuretic response to infused adrenomedullin (1-50) in the anesthetized rat. [Conference session]. North Dakota Academy of Science, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
Murphy, M.P., Samson, W.K., & Vari R.C. (1997). Porcine adrenomedullin (26-52) attenuates the natriuretic response to infused adrenomedullin (1-50) in the anesthetized rat. [Poster presentation]. Frank Low Research Day, UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND
Ph.D. Teaching & Learning: Instructional Design & Technology University of North Dakota (2022)
M.S. Physiology University of North Dakota (1998)
M.Ed. Curriculum and Instruction University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1991)
B.S. Physiology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1990)
Recording: final defense recording