Mark A. Sarvary is a senior lecturer in biology and science communication at the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior. His research focuses on evidence-based teaching practices and student-centered pedagogical methods in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). He directs the Investigative Biology Teaching Laboratories, where students learn experimental design, the scientific process, science literacy, and communication. He is the founding faculty advisor of the Science Communication and Public Engagement undergraduate minor. As an immigrant from Hungary, he initiated and became a faculty coordinator of the STEM-focused summer internship at the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE). Cornell students attend MATE, his alma mater, to conduct summer research in Zoology, Ecology, Aquaculture, and Plant protection.