He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He received a B.S. in Wildlife Ecology from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D. in Plant Biology from Louisiana State University. Dr. Kwit's teaching interests are in the areas of climate change, conservation biology, introductory botany, and plant-animal interactions. He teaches a climate change course as part of the Chancellor's Honors Program for first-semester freshman. He is developing and will be teaching a course on Wildlife Vegetation and Habitat for Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries students, and will be teaching in the Introductory Botany sequence in the General Biology program.