CIRTL Postdoc Pathways Welcomes 2025-2026 Cohort
28 postdocs join a community of scholars dedicated to teaching, mentorship, and evidence-based practice.
We are excited to announce the 2025-2026 CIRTL Postdoc Pathways Cohort!
The CIRTL Postdoc Pathways program is a "just-in-time, just-enough" teaching preparation program for full-time research postdocs at the University of Arizona who are interested in teaching as part of their career. In the past four years since the program's development, 62 postdocs have completed the program and co-taught courses from first-year to graduate level courses with 58 teaching mentors. The program is supported by UCATT and the U of A’s membership in the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), an international professional development network.
This year, we have selected 28 fellows who represent a diversity of teaching experiences, interests, disciplinary, and educational backgrounds. During the fall, they will train in evidence-based teaching methods, participate in a cohort-based learning community, and plan a short-term, intensive co-teaching project with a faculty mentor for the following semester. In Spring, they will complete their co-teaching project, participate in another learning community, and create a teaching portfolio.
Meet the 2025-2026 cohort:
- Marjan Aghajani, College of Medicine, Phoenix
- Minwoo Ahn, School of Landscape Architecture and Planning
- Kiran Basava, School of Information Science
- Bobby Betterton, Department of Pharmacology
- Maiya Block Ngaybe, CAPLA and Health Promotion Sciences
- Alan Cervantes-Perez, School of Plant Sciences
- Amber Clements, University of Arizona Cancer Center
- Daniel DeFelippis, Department of Astronomy
- Tyler Durkin, Department of Environmental Science
- Varinia Felix, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
- Marcus Gomes, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences
- Khaled Ismail, Department of Anesthesiology
- Nicole Jimenez, College of Medicine, Phoenix
- Curtis Kline, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy
- Nicole Lorig, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Pintu Kumar Mahla, Water Resources Research Center
- Geovana Martin-Alemany, School of Nutritional Sciences and Wellness
- Kristen Martinet, College of Information Science
- Md Aktaruzzaman, College of Plant Sciences
- Soodabeh Namdari, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
- Chayan Roychoudhury, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences
- Sanchit Sabhlok, Department of Astronomy
- Vivianna Sanchez, Department of Environmental Science
- Pooja Solanke, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Naghmeh Soltani, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
- Kylie Wilson, University of Arizona Cancer Center
- Elke Zeller, Department of Geosciences
- Weicheng Zhao, School of Animal and Comparative Animal Sciences
A warm welcome and best of luck to this year's participants!
If you're interested in learning more about the program, please contact CIRTL Co-Institutional Leads, Dr. Lisa Elfring or Dr. Kristin Winet.
