Matthew J. Linton, Ph.D., earned a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the University of Utah in 1995 and a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1999. After completing a year-long post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Georgia and serving for a year as a professor at Eastern New Mexico University, he joined the teaching faculty at the University of Utah in 2002, primarily instructing Human Physiology to hundreds of undergraduates each year. During his 15 years as a lecturer professor at the University of Utah, Professor Linton was the recipient of a number of teaching awards, including Favorite Professor of the Beehive Honor Society in 2015, Greek Council Best Professor Award in 2014, and the Excellence in Education Award from LDSSA in 2012.
Professor Linton has authored three undergraduate textbooks in Human Physiology, including a laboratory textbook and two lecture notes and studying texts. Over his 15 years of service at the University of Utah, he taught approximately 12,000 students in his Human Physiology courses, which eventually produced many hundreds of physicians, dentists, pharmacists, physical therapists, nurses, and many other professionals that are practicing throughout the country.
He recently spent two years teaching in Seoul, South Korea, at the newly opened University of Utah Asia Campus, where he taught general education courses in biology and chemistry to undergraduate students from all throughout Asia, including Korea, China, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. He enjoys multi-day backpacking in the deserts of the Southwest, running marathons, and collecting and identifying botanical specimens from throughout the world.
