TEACHING AND MENTORSHIP
GUEST LECTURER
Building Blocks of Stress Regulation. Stress & Health Across the Lifespan Undergraduate course at Rice University (September 12, 2019).
Mind-Body Interventions. Stress & Health Across the Lifespan. Undergraduate course at Rice University (October 25, 2018).
TEACHING ASSISTANT
Stress & Health Across the Lifespan (Fall 2018, Fall 2019)
Managed and conducted quizzes, assignments, and exam grading.
UNDERGRADUATE MENTORSHIP
Honors Thesis Student Mentoring (Fall 2019-present)
Co-advising one honors thesis student (PI: Dr. Christopher Fagundes).
Undergraduate Research Advising (Fall 2017-present)
Advise 1-6 undergraduate students per semester within the BMED Lab.
ADDITIONAL SPEAKING EXPERIENCE
RICE UNIVERSITY
Topic: The Hearty Immune System: An Investigation of Postprandial Inflammatory Responses. Served as an internal invited speaker for the Health and Affective Science Weekly Seminar. Rice University, Houston, TX, March 27, 2019.
Topic: Graduate Student Panel for Undergraduates. Served as an internal invited speaker in 2018 and 2019 for a panel giving research and career advice to aspiring young academics. Rice University, Houston, TX.
COMMUNITY TALKS
Topic: Stress, Health, and Project HEART. Speaker at Thomas A. Glazier Senior Education Center, Houston, TX, August 22, 2019.
Topic: Project HEART and Your Health. Speaker at the YMCA of Greater Houston, Houston, TX, May 7, 2019.
PROMOTING GIRLS IN STEM
Topic: Girls in Science: how stress gets under the skin and how we measure it! Mentor for Girls in Science program. Rice University, Houston, TX, June 8, 2019.
Topic: Expanding Your Horizons: How stress gets under the skin. Presenter at Expanding Your Horizons in Science and Mathematics for Middle School Young Women conference. Houston, TX, February 26, 2018.