Faculty Biography
Vitals:
Name: Anna K. Yeung-Cheung, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Dept. of Biology
Building: Brownson
Room: 224
Phone: 914-323-5203
Email: cheunga@mville.edu
Degrees:
Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology, University of Georgia
MS in Microbiology, University of Georgia
BS in Plant Pathology, National Taiwan University
Professor Anna Yeung-Cheung has been teaching for five years at Manhattanville College. She received her B.S. from National Taiwan University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. Prior to her teaching career at Manhattanville, she had worked as a research scientist in the Virology and Serology Lab of the SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn for five years. She was also the Serology Lab manager at Antech Diagnostics, a lab that works with veterinary hospitals.
She decided to go into teaching after she realized how much she enjoyed tutoring students in her free time. At Manhattanville, Professor Yeung-Cheung teaches a variety of classes including Microbiology Immunology, Principles of Virology, Infectious Disease, Introduction to Human Disease, and Nutrition in Health & Disease. “I try to make my classes fun, and relate what we are studying to current events and even popular culture whenever possible,” she said. “I went to a college that had some pretty famous scientists on the faculty, but everyone would fall asleep in their classes because they did not try to engage the students. So engaging with my students is very important to me.”
Professor Yeung-Cheung’s expertise and research focuses mainly on diagnostic microbiology and microbial ecology. Her recent publication titled “The capacity of the Gunderboom® in Mamaroneck Harbor on the reduction of E. coli and coliform bacteria from water and soft-shelled clams (Mya arenaria)” was published in the Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A, 42: 143-148 in January 2007. She has given a presentation at the National Beach Conference in October 2006, which was hosted by the EPA, and recently presented her research work at the Ecological Society of America’s Fourth Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Scientific Meeting in March 2007. She has also been twice invited to present her research work at the town hall meeting of the Village of Mamaroneck. For more information about her research and classes, please visit http://faculty.mville.edu/cheunga/.