Reviews of professor Kate Adamala

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Textbook is useless, all exams are based on lectures. Prof Adamala makes clear slides and detailed study guide and grading criteria is clear. Difficult class so you have to work every week. She gives extra credit work which helps because exams are hard.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
It seems like Dr. Adamala is primarily here for research, but she is a good professor as everything on the tests is also in her slides. Her lectures are pretty uneventful, but she can be pretty funny sometimes. You'll have to memorize A LOT of info, but just study before the test and you'll be fine.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Goes very quickly through lectures and tends to go on tangents. The assigned textbook is not good, so go through the posted lecture notes and slides before the pre-tests instead. The exams are completely based on the lecture, so be sure to review the lecture notes very thoroughly before exams.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Good professor, she seem to really care that students keep up with the material. She's very responsive and willing to help and meet outside office hours. She makes very complete slides so you don't have to use the textbook.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Kate was a great professor, but the exams in this class were very hard!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The structure of BIOL 3020 is annoying, but prof. Adamala made it bearable in my opinion. She was very good at lecturing and was always willing to discuss the material in depth if someone was interested. The class is focused solely on the Central Dogma, and I think she really helped solidify this knowledge.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She is good. The class itself is just boring. She is nice and enjoys talking about research. The class is standardized so the slides are the same for each professor. She is available to answer questions in person and really likes participation during group presentations on "society days."

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The class is hard, but prof Adamala puts all the information on slides. You don't have to use the textbook. Group projects all semester and she makes sure the work is divided fair in all groups. Good professor, but the class is a lot of work. She's fair grader and curved generously this year for pandemic.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Good lecturer, her slides are all you need to know for exam. Don't even bother with textbook, everything you need is in lectures. Adamala is good at answering questions in and outside of class, she's very accessible and makes custom office hours if you can't make her regular office hours.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Hard class but she's a good teacher. Don't bother with textbook, Adamala puts everything on slides anyway. She's responsive to emails and has flexible office hours.