Heather Bateman
2024 Provost Teaching Award
Professor
School of Applied Sciences and Artss
Heather Bateman is professor in the School of Applied Sciences and Arts in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at ASU. Bateman is a wildlife ecologist committed to applied, career-connected learning. She tries to pass on the passion that she has, teaching graduate and undergraduate students ways to integrate aspects of discovery and curiosity with field-based, hands-on experience so they can achieve real-world application in conservation.
One can find Bateman’s students literally in a field, doing nighttime road-cruising to look for wildlife, checking Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport lizard traps, repopulating Tarahumara frogs in native habitats or building new homes for burrowing owls. Bateman’s support for students’ research has also included addressing some overlooked career development fundamentals: financial support to cover professional conference registration costs for underrepresented and early-career speakers and also field gear. She helped establish a gear closet for students in applied biological sciences that provides access to outdoor equipment necessary to do field work, such as tents, sleeping pads, binoculars, hiking boots and field clothes.
Bateman’s mentoring awards include the 2022 Charlie Painter Memorial Award for excellence in student mentorship. She was nominated by Arizona Game and Fish Department and her award conferred by the Southwest Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation. She also received the 2015 Wildlife Professional Service Award for Student Mentoring from the Arizona Chapter of The Wildlife Society. At ASU, she was recognized for her service to students with the 2021-2022 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award from the ASU Graduate College.
