Dr. Austin's class was great! Her passion for the subject is evident, and it significantly increased my interest in the field. What stood out the most was her unwavering support for her students. Dr. Austin genuinely cares about our success and understanding, lectures have interactive polls or supportive videos to help us understand the topic. The lectures were filled with relevant and fascinating information about current stem cell knowledge and events, making the complex topic of stem cells more approachable and interesting. She presents the information in a way that is easy to understand, and she's always willing to clarify any doubts.

Dr. Austin's helpfulness extends beyond the classroom as she offers extra credit opportunities that reinforce our learning and give us a deeper understanding of the material. This approach not only helps students who are struggling but also enriches those who are already doing well. The course workload is reasonable with a lot of the work being extra credit and nothing feeling like "busy work."

Lastly, Dr. Austin enriches the class by bringing in fantastic guest speakers who are leaders in their field and have very informative and engaging talks. I highly recommend her class to anyone interested in this cutting-edge area of science.

Professor Austin is awesome! She is super welcoming and friendly. Her lectures are very engaging and she really encourages participation. Lecture content is super interesting and she makes it easy to follow, even if you don't have a science background. During every lecture she recaps the past lecture, which is really helpful for reviewing material. She also hosts office hours before midterms where she reviews all of the lecture content which are really helpful. Lectures are very engaging and there are often polls and discussion questions.

This class was all around a nice experience. Very manageable workload, fair tests, interesting content, and an understanding professor/TA made for an overall great experience.

There isn't much else I have to say; if you're looking for a class to take and are interested in stem cells, regenerative medicine, or biological science at large, I'd definitely recommend this class!

Professor Austin is one of the most welcoming and engaging professors at UCLA. She is always interacting with her students and encouraging them to participate in class. The content is taught from a scientific perspective but also takes into account the modern-day relevance and application of stem cells. The assignments are very reasonable and there are lots of extra credit opportunities available throughout the quarter. The exams do cover a wide range of topics, but all the relevant material is covered multiple times in class. Every lecture starts with an interactive recap that helps solidify previous content. Professor Austin is also very accessible during her office hours if you need additional help and she genuinely tries to make a connection with each student in the class. Highly recommend this course!!

I think Professor Austin was a great Professor. I joined the class not having any prior background or very limited knowledge about biology. I originally had dropped the class after having attended two lectures and thought it would be too hard, but Professor Austin personally reached out and offered to personally catch me up if I felt it was too tough for me. Overall, she's one of the kindest Professor's I've encountered, she's always willing to make sure the students are enjoying the lectures and just overall makes sure that her students aren't overworked. She's one of the few professor's that understands her students have other classes. Genuinely can say that she's a great teacher.

Compared to other classes on campus, this class is a breath of fresh air. I took this class as an elective while taking upper divs. The workload was very managable and there was a great deal of extra credit opportunities that were both engaging and reinforced class material. Professor Austin does a great job in making the class interactive through questions and drawing out diagrams on the chalkboard. Our final review was even in a bingo format. She's very caring, takes the time to find amazing guest lecturers like Dr. Kohn, and does her best to interact and help students even in class. I definitely recommend this class for anyone.

Professor Austin did a great job teaching the class. She's also one of the nicest professors I met at UCLA. She posts weekly notes recapping the week's lecture material which helped a lot for studying. Professor Austin also offered extra credit throughout the course so I didn't feel too worried about my grade in the class. The workload wasn't bad at all, and you only had to attend around 40% of the lectures so you don't have to show up to every lecture. The lectures were very interesting and covered recent developments surrounding stem cell treatments. Professor Austin also hosted weekly office hours recapping the week's content which was extremely helpful. If you attend most of the lectures and submit your assignments on time, you should easily be able to get a good grade in the class.

I took this class as a GE and highly recommend since I found it to be very interesting and enjoyable with a small class dynamic. Professor Austin taught this class well and clearly communicated to students on how the tests and quizzes would be. The workload was very manageable and her assignments were unique and interesting, often evoking critical thinking. My favorite one was a presentation on a stem cell topic of our choice. Additionally, her lectures were in-depth and engaging, and getting a good grade in the class is easy as long as you pay attention in the lectures. The tests include some tricky questions, but they are more than made up for by the abundant extra credit opportunities she gives. If you do happen to miss some classes, Professor Austin is also very accessible at office hours to help you catch up.

Dr. Austin is the best Professor that I have seen at UCLA. She explains everything very clearly and tells you whatever is needed for exams. I wish she would teach more classes, but I am so happy that I was in her MCDB 90 class. I learned a lot, and I will never forget her efforts and how helpful she was. Thank you very much Dr. Austin for everything.

The only good thing about this class and teacher is that its an easy A. Other than that prof. austin is actually a horrible lecturer and bad teacher in general. She treats us like children, and forcibly makes us participate even when we dont have our hands raised. She is always late to class and was even late to the final, the quizzes and exams she swears will take you ten minutes and is really easy, but makes it actually difficult for no reason at all. Her final made 0 sense, it was poorly written and seemed like it was made the night before. Overall, if you're looking for an easy A but horrible experience take the class, lol. But if you do not want to deal with the headache that Prof. Austin is just take LS7A as your GE lol.