Dr. Goldberg is highly knowledgeable and passionate about his field, and was really able to ignite that same passion in many of us in our small seminar. He will challenge your critical thinking heavily often calling you on the spot — it was stressful at times but I definitely feel that I enjoyed the experience overall, and that I’m a better student directly because of him and this seminar. Plenty of work reading papers weekly and presenting twice, but I genuinely enjoyed the work — which is a first for me as a senior MCDB student. Would definitely recommend.

Professor Goldberg is an amazing professor. He really wants students to be able to synthesize material that they have learned from other classes and apply it to what is being taught in class. For the seminar, we focused on GMOs and we went from the very basis of how plasmids were made up to current technology. The class was intense because he would always be asking students questions about the paper, so make sure you read the papers in full detail.