Dr. Karen Hopkins is a marketing educator with 20 years of teaching experience at the university level. After working in the marketing and public relations industry for nearly 15 years, she has taught most of the courses in the traditional undergraduate marketing curriculum. She has made it her mission to help students of all majors to understand how marketing works in their future careers, and in their lives as consumers. She is especially dedicated to finding ways to involve students in a classroom where they’re studying a topic that’s not “in their major.” Since coming to Auburn, she has participated in the Active Learning community, taking part in EASL training, Course (Re)Design and the Women Lecturers’ Faculty Learning Community. She has also worked closely with the Biggio Center and Auburn Online to utilize available technologies to enhance learning. Her research on teaching and pedagogical methods in marketing and communication is published in Marketing Education Review, Journal of Marketing Education, and Journal for Research in Business Communication.
Ana Grinberg is a Lecturer in the English Department. Her research and innovative pedagogical interests intersect in the engaged and active approaches to global pre- and early modern epic literature. This connection is evident in the chapter “Teaching Youth Epic Narratives in an Active Learning World Literature Course,” included in a Modern Language Association Teaching Approaches volume. Besides publishing about medieval representations of epic youth and cultural exchange between Islam and Western Christendom, she has participated in workshops and training events in Auburn University and presented in local and international conferencees on innovative teaching methods often related to the Middle Ages. Dr. Grinberg is the Vice President of the Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian branch, as well as a member of the Southeastern Medieval Association's Executive Council.
Erin Garcia is a lecturer in Industrial Engineering who is interested in exploring new classroom activities, structures, and technologies to improve student understanding of technical concepts. She is also working on baseline measurements for the current state of various factors in the classroom with the goal of developing effective interventions to improve self-efficacy and classroom performance.
Kimberly Garza is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Officer in the Harrison College of Pharmacy’s Department of Health Outcomes Research and Policy. Her research involves the use of immersive technologies to influence perception of risk and severity of chronic diseases. Dr. Garza has authored multiple peer-reviewed articles and co-edited a book and a special journal issue related to the scholarship of teaching and learning. Her passion for graduate education is exemplified by her role as past Chair of both the Graduate Education Special Interest Group and Research and Graduate Affairs Committee of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.
Kelley Noll is an Associate Clinical Professor in the College of Nursing. She teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs with her teaching interests including professional transitions, curriculum and evaluation, and student success. Her research interests include effective teaching, teaching, curriculum development, and student success. Kelley holds national certification as a Certified Nurse Educator (CNE) and Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator (LCCE). She is a member of the National League for Nursing, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses, and Sigma International Honor Society.
Dr. J. Rachel Prado is a Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Auburn University, where she has been teaching since 2019. She received her B.S. and Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and completed a teaching postdoc at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Prado specializes in teaching large lecture sections of general and organic chemistry in a flipped classroom style, with a focus on scaffolding and group work to foster a sense of belonging among her students. She is passionate about promoting inclusion and belonging both in and outside of the classroom to help her students build confidence in their STEM abilities. When she's not teaching, Dr. Prado enjoys spending time with her husband, three boys, and dog Cooper.
Dr. Adam Payne is a senior lecturer in geography at Auburn University. His research focuses on urban geography, tourism geography, and sports geography. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate level classes in human geography. He is also the undergraduate program officer for geography, the geography student organization faculty advisor, and the GTU (geography honors society) Southeastern/Middle Atlantic Regional Councilor.
