Alexis Snyder
Adjunct Faculty
As a lab instructor for General Biology, the Department of Biology鈥檚 introductory
course,
Professor Alexis Snyder facilitates student research and teaches common field and
laboratory
techniques, from sample collection during fieldwork to use of devices and analytic
software in
the lab.
She has been a licensed physical therapist since 2001. She has worked in a variety
of rehab
settings and has experience with sports, orthopedic, neurological and cardiac patients.
She
currently works primarily with the geriatric population and serves as an administrator
at an
outpatient facility in West Michigan.
Professor Snyder has been a General Biology lab instructor at Hope since 2021. She
also serves
as a clinical instructor of physical therapy through multiple Michigan colleges and
universities.
AREAS OF Expertise
- Human biology
- Biomechanics
- Geriatrics
EDUCATION
- M.S., physical therapy, Grand Valley State University, 1999
- B.S., health science, Grand Valley State University, 1996
Outside The College
Professor Snyder鈥檚 three kids are in college or will be soon, which helps her connect
with Hope
students. She enjoys outdoor activities including paddleboarding, cross-country skiing,
and
hiking in the woods with her Labrador retriever mix and beagle mix adopted from an
animal
shelter. Her childhood summers were spent in Michigan鈥檚 Upper Peninsula, where her
father
was a youth camp director. Each year she and her sister had to swim in Lake Superior;
if they
didn鈥檛 do it voluntarily, their father would push them in. She still makes a trip
to the UP every
summer, and always swims in the lake.