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Reinert Center Graduate Assistants

The graduate assistants in the Reinert Center assist in the administration of the Certificate in University Teaching Skills program. They also conduct research on teaching and learning topics; consult with graduate students about teaching; and assist Center staff with design, implementation, and assessment of programs.

Areas of Expertise

  • Organize and facilitate orientation sessions for new teaching assistants.
  • Conduct mid-semester focus groups with students upon instructor request.
  • Conduct confidential teaching consultations with graduate student instructors.
  • Organize and contribute to Center publications and web-based resources.
  • Conduct research on teaching and learning.
  • Facilitate online seminars for Certificate program.
  • Administer Certificate in University Teaching Skills program.

Current Graduate Assistants

Cory Gardner

Cory Gardner

cory.gardner@slu.edu 
314-977-2231

Cory Gardner is a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at Saint Louis University, where his research focuses on multimodal deep learning and high-performance computing for scalable metagenomics. His work also involves GPU-accelerated image analysis, privacy-preserving machine learning, and developing memory-efficient methods for anomaly detection. Gardner holds an M.S. in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from Saint Louis University and has served as a teaching assistant for courses including Data Structures and Distributed Computing.

Krista Braun

Krista Braun

krista.braun@slu.edu 
314-977-2231

Krista Braun is a Ph.D. student in the psychology department at Saint Louis University, where her research focuses on child literacy development, specifically looking at how parents (their cognitions, characteristics and traits) influence the child literacy practices that are done in the home. She has also served as an instructor of an undergraduate research methods and statistics course for the last two years. Prior to entering the developmental concentration of the experimental psychology program, Braun earned an M.S. in Applied Health Behavior Research from Washington University School of Medicine.