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.