Mays Imad is a neuroscientist, a science educator, an educational developer, and a mental health advocate. She is a Gardner Institute Fellow and an AAC&U Senior Fellow. Dr. Imad’s current research focuses on stress, self-awareness and regulation, advocacy, and classroom community, and how these relate to cognition, metacognition, and, ultimately, student learning and success. She is also interested in better understanding the various dimensions of critical thinking, including the role of feelings in short circuiting or enhancing critical thinking. Through her teaching and research, she seeks to provide her students with transformative opportunities that are grounded in the aesthetics of learning, truth-seeking, justice, and self-realization.
Podcasts Featuring Mays
Episode 410
Rethinking Critical Thinking, with Mays Imad
Episode 335
Trauma-Informed Teaching and Learning, with Mays Imad
