Reviews of professor Donald Dearborn

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Don knows so much about biology and gives spectacular lectures. He's a relatively hard grader for writing assignments and take-home exams, but as long as you provide enough details and dig into the complexities of a problem, you'll do well. I also enjoyed the group investigations that he created.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great guy. Don is one of the best professors I've had at Bates thus far. He's clear about expectations and assigns fascinating labs.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I loved conservation genetics! Don is a kind and intelligent professor who pushes you hard on scientific writing, but is always happy to offer tips and support. We connected large-scale processes like climate change with small-scale ones like shifting genetic variation.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Don is a wonderful professor, even in a big lecture course like this one. He explained concepts clearly and gave us interesting group problems to work on during class, so he wasn't actually lecturing the entire time. I really liked that he tied the biological concepts we were learning into environmental issues like climate change. Tests are long.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Great professor, can be a tough grader on papers, gives a lot of info each lecture but keeps things interesting, tests are pretty straightforward