Derina Samuel

Dr. Derina S. Samuel is an associate director of graduate student development and of the International Teaching Assistant Program. She provides leadership for CTI’s graduate programs, which includes the CTI Graduate Fellow Program, the Graduate Teaching Academy, the fall and spring University-wide Teaching Conferences, institutes and workshops, Teaching Assistant Online Orientation, and the Teaching Portfolio Program. She holds a doctorate in biochemistry and a master’s degree in public administration from Syracuse University, and a bachelor’s and master’s degree in chemistry from the University of Zambia. Her research and teaching interests over the past two decades have focused on future faculty programming, as well as professional development resources for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.