HIGH POINT, N.C., Sept. 5, 2014 – Melissa Srougi recently joined the faculty of High Point University as an assistant professor of biochemistry in the Chemistry Department.
Srougi, a Toledo, Ohio, native, will teach biochemistry and chemistry courses and labs as well as perform independent research with undergraduate students. Her research focuses on cancer biology and therapy, experimental therapeutics, and DNA damage responses.
She is also an expert in inquiry-based learning and promoting student-centered, active learning in the classroom. She uses her knowledge in this area to improve the instruction she provides to university students and likes to volunteer with the K-12 community to expose younger students to hands-on, cutting edge science.
“I’m thrilled to join the HPU family and become part of a community of scholars who put student education and success in the workplace as their top priority,” she says. “I hope to infuse in my students a passion for life-long learning. By teaching science the way it is practiced, I will provide HPU students with relevant opportunities to think critically in both the classroom as well as the laboratory.”
Srougi has a Bachelor of Science in biology from the University of Toledo and a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Case Western Reserve University. She also completed postdoctoral research training with Keith Burridge at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and postdoctoral teaching experience in the biotechnology program at North Carolina State University.
Her awards and honors include an American Cancer Society Post Doctoral Fellowship, attendance at the Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates, and an NCSU Faculty Course Development Grant to design a hypothesis-driven lecture and laboratory course on signal transduction (Srougi and Carson BAMBED 2013 DOI: 10.1002/bmb.20741).