Diviya Ray

Diviya Ray

Assistant Teaching Professor

Expertise:

  • Biology Undergraduate Teaching & Curriculum Development, K-12 Outreach Activities

About Diviya Ray

Diviya Ray recently joined the Department of Biology at Northeastern University as an Assistant Teaching Professor.

Diviya has her PhD in Cancer Biology from the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, studying 9-O acetyl sialo-glycoconjugates as biomarkers in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. She then joined Yale University as postdoc, where she investigated the cellular biology involved in the cardio-protective effect of estrogen in premenopausal females. Subsequently, she served as an instructor at Boston University, exploring the cellular and biochemical pathways that contribute to renal ischemia. In addition to her research, Diviya also supervised many high school and undergraduate students and discovered her passion for teaching. She started teaching General Biology and Anatomy & Physiology at Bay State College and Simmons College as an adjunct faculty member, before joining MIT’s Department of Biology as a technical instructor for Introductory Biology courses, in 2007.
Diviya is a recipient of the Infinite Mile Award from the School of Science for her contributions to undergraduate teaching at MIT Biology.

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