Alverno College

Mikelene Ray, Ph.D. serves as the Faculty Athletics Representative for the Inferno which acts as the primary liaison between the athletics department and the academic departments of the college. The position also represents the institution and its faculty in the institution's relationships with the NCAA and the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference.

She is an associate professor of psychology and Chair of the Council for Student Assessmentat Alverno College. She teaches Statistics and Probability, Research Methods, and Neuroscience elective courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. 

She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology with a focus in Neuroscience from Virginia Commonwealth University and strongly believes in supporting student success through fostering a culture of ability based learning using assessment.  As part of an NSF-HSI grant to support STEM education at Alverno College, Dr. Ray is exploring the impact of community programming on student retention, sense of belonging, identity and interest in graduate school and STEM-related employment.