Office Hours with John Gardner
Gardner Institute Fellow Mays Imad reflects on the power of co-learning, working through challenges alongside students to gain different perspectives on the world. Discover how her background and insights shape her approach to helping students, faculty, and institutions face challenges while preparing for a sustainable future in higher education.
Mays Imad received her undergraduate training in Philosophy from the University of Michigan, focusing on Philosophy of Science and Consciousness. She earned her Ph.D. in Cellular and Clinical Neuroscience from Wayne State University in Detroit, and then completed an NIH-IRACDA post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Arizona.
Mays’s current research focuses on stress, self-awareness, advocacy, and classroom community, and how these relate to cognition, metacognition, and, ultimately, student learning and success. Through her teaching and research, she seeks to provide her students with transformative opportunities which are grounded in the aesthetics of learning, truth-seeking, and self-realization.