marimersantiago

Marimer Santiago-Rivas, M. A.

Marimer received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras and her master’s degree in Behavioral Science Psychology from the University of Rhode Island (URI). Currently, she is a PhD candidate at the University of Rhode Island, and holds an Assistant Professor position at Rhode Island College. Marimer Santiago-Rivas was the assistant for the Quantitative Training for Underrepresented Groups (QTUG) conference during the period of 2008-2010 after participating in the second edition of the training in 2005 as a graduate student at the University of Rhode Island.

Her career includes being recipient of the URI-Minority Fellowship and a mini-grant, being a teaching assistant and an instructor for undergraduate and graduate courses, and a research assistant at the Cancer Prevention Research Center (URI), where she worked with Dr. Wayne F. Velicer. Her primary research interests include the application of multivariate statistics for the study of health promotion, disease prevention, and the enhancement of the academic careers of minority groups in science. She has also co-authored several peer-reviewed articles, and presented at national and international conferences regarding these topics.

Outside of professional interests, she enjoys traveling, kayaking, riding her tricycle, dancing, and loves living in Providence with her husband.