Dr. Suzanne Wood

Biography

Dr. Wood is an Associate Professor in the Teaching Stream at the Department of Psychology, University of Toronto. She holds a BA in Classical Languages with a minor in Music from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was honored with the Regents' Scholarship. She spent her junior year abroad at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Dr. Wood earned her PhD at the University of California, San Diego, where her research focused on the effects of stimulants on learning and memory, supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and NIH NRSA Individual Predoctoral Fellowships. Following her doctoral studies, she completed four years of postdoctoral training at Columbia University, underpinned by the NIH T32 Research Training Grant. She teaches undergraduate courses in the Brain and Behavior area of the department and is actively pursuing lines of inquiry related to the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). Her current research interests include psychopharmacology and pedagogy, investigating the use of pharmacological compounds for cognitive enhancement among university students. Throughout her career, Dr. Wood has also been involved in various employment opportunities ranging from programming for a start-up to street outreach at a homeless shelter for teenagers, thereby developing a keen interest in helping undergraduates explore their career paths.

Research Interests