Professional Activities

AWARDS

Commonwealth Honors College Faculty Lecture Series Award/Presenter (2013 -2014)
Black Student Union Award for Outstanding Devotion & Dedication to Profession (2011) General Education Fellow (2009 – 2010)
Residential First Year Experience (RFYE) Student Choice Award (2008 - 2012) Distinguished Teaching Award (2007 – 2008)
International Who’s Who of Professional Educators (2005)
Junior Investigator Award, American Society for Apheresis (2003)
Fulbright Scholarship (1999 – 2000)

WORKSHOPS CONDUCTED

New Student Orientation Training workshop, UMass Amherst; “Tobacco Free UMass: A healthy Place to Work and Learn”. May 30th, 2012

General Education Institute, UMass Amherst; Teaching and Information Literacy; “Ways to Incorporate Information Literacy in Gen Ed Courses”. May 19th, 2010.

Lilly Fellows Seminar Series, Center for Teaching; UMass Amherst, MA; “Evaluation and Assessment in General Education Courses”. April 19, 2012.

Warner School Springfield MA, “What is Science”. May 4th, 2010 (experiment demonstration and science education with over 200 students) W. C. Webley Curriculum Vitae Page 8

University of Massachusetts Amherst. “Best Practices in Science Education Conference Retaining science and engineering undergraduates, sustaining the S&E workforce.” June 24th, 2008

University of Massachusetts Amherst. “OIT workshop on Using Technology in the classroom.” October, 2007

University of Massachusetts Amherst. “Succeeding in Graduate School – GECDI.” September 19, 2006

University of Massachusetts Amherst. “Sharpening Interpersonal Communication Skills for Career Success – GECDI.” April 5th, 2006

University of Massachusetts Amherst. “Thriving In Graduate School and Beyond – GECDI.” September 20th, 2005

TEACHING [Over 4000 graduate and undergraduate students since 2004]

• Immunology Laboratory (Microbio 542, 3 cr.) Every spring 2004 – 2009, 2012 – 2014
• Immunology Lecture (Microbio 540, 3 cr.) Spring 2005
• Immunology Journal Club (Microbio 797J, 1 cr.) Every semester since 2004
• Biology of Cancer and AIDS (Microbio 160, 4 cr.)* Spring 2006 – Present
• Infectious Disease and Defense (Microbio 320, 3 cr.) Every Fall 2006 - Present
• Graduate Seminar (Microbio 791A, 1 cr.) Spring 2008
• Honors Colloquium (Microbio H01, 1 cr.) Spring 2013
• Poverty, Race and HIV/AIDS in the US (Microbio 494PI) Spring 2013, 2014
  *~470 – 480 students per semester

MENTORING
Current Graduate Students

• Kelly Aldridge
• Stephanie Ha

Current Undergraduate Students

• Dorothy Tovar, 2012 – present (LSAMP supported, CHC)
• Marc Nault, 2012 – present (CHC)
• Taylor Gray, 2013 – present
• Brianna McQuaid 2014 – present
• Vincent Giacalone, 2014 – present (CHC)
• Jonathan Shecter, 2012 – present (BDIC student)

Former graduate students

• Samuel DiNardo, MS, 2014
• Tawanna Childs, Ph.D. (2007- 2012) – Robert D. Watkins Fellowship
• Katir Patel, Ph.D., (2007 – 2012) – Distinguished Teaching Award Recipient
• Maria Calapai, MS, 2012 – Opko Diagnostics,
• Eduard I. Drizik, MS, 2011 – Boston University School of Medicine
• Allison Schure, M.S., 2010 – Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin U-Med & Science,
• Erica Anderson, M.S., 2009 – AstraZeneca Oncology iMED, Cambridge, MA
• Joseph Lavoie Jr., M.S., 2009 – Pentax Medical Company , Boston MA
• Mauricia Victor, M.S., 2009 – Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, UCONN, CT
• Kimberly Lay, M.S., 2007 – Massachusetts Department of Health, Boston MA
• Samantha Kelley, M.S., 2006 – Genzyme Corporation, Cambridge, MA W. C. Webley Curriculum Vitae Page 9
• Yaphet Tilahun, M.S., 2005 – General Surgery Resident, Florida Hospital

Ph.D. Rotation Students

• Maria Roca Granados, 2012
• Jennifer Hyashi, 2012
• Chu-Yaun Luo, 2011
• Julia Puffal 2014