The Artist's Gallery
2012 to Present
A self-taught freehand naturalist painter; medium acrylic, oil, pastels and mixed media on canvas. Debut exhibit in 2015 “Dancing with Nature: Being Human” was displayed in the Fine Arts Gallery on the Savannah State University campus.
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Educator
As an educator, Dr. Marriott established the Bachelor of Science degree program in Forensic Science at Savannah State University. She served as its program coordinator 2011-21. In Summer 2016, Dr. Marriott completed establishment of the first, one-of-a-kind 3-D virtual reality (VR) crime scene facility for training undergraduates.
Curriculum Development: Forensic Science
The forensic science program actively engages in immersive integrative student-centered teaching and learning. Dr. Marriott was selected as a state of Georgia Governor’s Teaching Fellow (GTF) in 2015 to improve the quality of instruction offered at colleges and universities in the state of Georgia by moving faculty members to the leading edge of instructional practice. In 2019, she received a Community Change Agent award from Operation One STEM at a Time.
Scientist
As a scientist, Dr. Marriott has directed, as PI and CoPI, various NSF, NIH, NASA and DoD funded research projects. Her ongoing research goals focus on development of therapeutic agents applicable to immune and neurodegenerative disorders and related pathologies.
She served as PI/PD of the NIH-NIBIB-ESTEEMED program at SSU to increase the number of underrepresented researchers pursuing careers in the biomedical sciences. She also served as the Lead-CoPI for the NSF Early Interdisciplinary Applied Strategies to Strengthen STEM Education and Research at SSU and transform STEM education via Virtual Reality Enhancements.
Research
Her research involving the synthesis and characterization of novel molecules for use as medicinal agents to treat addiction (NIH/NIDA, R03) resulted in exciting interdisciplinary research findings relevant to cholesterol metabolism and neurodegenerative disorders. In Jan. 2017 she was awarded a chemical patent for the synthesis of compounds with pharmaceutical potential for neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Lou Gehrig’s disease.
In 2019 she was named a Paul Harris Fellow by the Sunrise Rotary of Savannah.
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