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Improving Student Learning through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) seeks to improve student learning through research on teaching. This session will highlight some of the SoTL work that is being conducted at WVU and will provide ideas on how faculty can implement SoTL within the context of their classroom.
Visit the Support for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning webpage for more information.Lizzie Santiago
Teaching Professor and Academic Advisor - Fundamentals of Engineering
Lizzie Y. Santiago, Ph.D., is a Teaching Professor for the Fundamentals of Engineering Program in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. The classroom is Dr. Santiago’s source of inspiration when working with students. She holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering and has postdoctoral training in neural tissue engineering and molecular neurosciences. Dr. Santiago teaches first year engineering courses (including a course she designed in critical thinking to help non-calculus ready first-year engineering students), serves as an academic advisor to at least 125 students each semester and supports the outreach and recruiting activities of the college. Her excellence in teaching and academic advising have been recognized at both the college and university level as she has received the Statler College Outstanding Teaching Award (2017), Statler College Educator of the Year Award (2020), Statler College Outstanding Teaching Award (2021) and WVU Foundation Outstanding Teaching Award (2017). She helps promote New Student Orientation (NSO), Engineering Fest, Mid-Year Academy, Engineering 101 EXPO, and Out of Class Experiences (OCEs). Since 2013, Dr. Santiago serves as an active academic advisor for the West Virginia University Student Chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and has guided that organization in their campus activities and has supported student participation in annual SHPE conferences. She shares her teaching expertise with others engaging with the WVU Teaching and Learning Commons and has mentored new faculty and served on faculty panels. Dr. Santiago’s promotes passion for learning and for engineering. Students need to understand that learning goes beyond the boundaries of the classroom. Her research interests include critical thinking, neural tissue engineering, attrition, and university retention, increasing student awareness and interest in research and engineering, critical thinking, STEM education, and recruitment and retention of women and minorities.
Marina Galvez Peralta
Teaching Associate Professor
Dr. Marina Galvez, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy. She is a PharmD, MS, PhD and Board Certified Clinical Pharmacologist. Dr. Galvez’s areas of research interest are understanding chemotherapy resistance, individual response variability to chemotherapy, drug combination optimization and drug response in special populations. Her expertise includes drug discovery, combinatorial pharmacotherapy, molecular pharmacology, metal toxicity, pharmacogenomics and teratogenicity. She is currently involved in coordinating or teaching different integrated courses at the School of Pharmacy at WVU (Pharmacogenomics, Drug Delivery, Immunology, Cardiology, and Oncology among others), as well as the area of emphasis on research for the PharmD program. After receiving her PharmD and PhD at the University of Seville in Spain, she completed postdoctoral fellowships at Mayo Clinic and the University of Cincinnati and obtained PharmD equivalency in the States. Dr. Galvez has also taught in Pharmacognosy, Pharmacodynamics, Phytotherapy and Toxicology courses in the past. Dr. Galvez has authored over 25 manuscripts and her work has been cited in more than 400 articles. In addition, she serves as treasurer of the AWIS-WV chapter, and as mentor for the WVU chapter of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists.
Rhonda Reymond
Associate Professor, Art History and Humanities Center Associate Director
Rhonda Reymond earned her BFA at the Savannah College of Art and Design and her MA and Ph.D. in art history from the University of Georgia. Reymond’s research focuses on visual culture of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. She is currently researching the professional training of African American artists working in academic traditions between 1865-1945. Her work has been published in Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: The Achievement of African American Writers, Artists, and Thinkers, 1880-1914and her article, “Looking in: Albert A. Smith’s Use of Repoussoir in Cover Illustrations for the Crisis and Opportunity Magazines,” is in a special visual culture edition of American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism and Bibliography. Forthcoming is her chapter “Reevaluating African American Art Before the Harlem Renaissance" in African American Literature in Transition, 1900-1910. Ed. by Shirley Moody-Turner. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Elizabeth Tomlinson
Teaching Associate Professor, Business and Economics
Elizabeth Tomlinson teaches business communication and introduction to business. She established the College's Business Learning Resource Center in 2012. Tomlinson earned a bachelor's degree in English at The College of Wooster; a master's degree in English, with a concentration in rhetoric and composition, at John Carroll University; and a Ph.D. in English within the Literacy, Rhetoric, and Social Practice concentration at Kent State University. Before coming to WVU, Tomlinson served as a Teaching Fellow at Kent State and as Assistant Writing Program Coordinator there. At John Carroll, she served as Assistant Writing Center Director. Her research has been accepted in Computers and Composition, Community Literacy Journal, Composition Studies, Writing Lab Newsletter, and Teaching in the Two Year College, among others. Her scholarly interests include business communication, rhetoric and writing studies, audience, entrepreneurial rhetoric,digital literacies, and business communication centers.
Ashleigh Barrickman
Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Skills Development, Pharmacy
Ashleigh Barrickman, Pharm.D., is a the Director of Skills Development for the WVU School of Pharmacy and is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy. She is a graduate of the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy and completed a Community Pharmacy Practice Residency with Waterfront Family Pharmacy and West Virginia University School of Pharmacy in 2014. During her residency, she completed the School of Pharmacy’s Teaching Certificate Program. Dr. Barrickman’s areas of interest in teaching include psychiatric pharmacy, diabetes management, medication therapy management, immunization services and anticoagulation management. She will be working with pharmacy students on skills development and will also be helping to coordinate the diabetes and immunization certification programs. She is a member of the American Pharmacists Association and serves as the New Practitioner Mentor for the school’s chapter of APhA-Academy of Student Pharmacists. Her research interests include diabetes, immunizations, schizophrenia and medication therapy management.