Associate Professor
University of Michigan
Dr. Melissa Gross earned a PhD in Kinesiology and studies the effects of emotion and mood disorders on body movements in her biomechanics research program at the University of Michigan. She is a Fellow in the American Society of Biomechanics and has published more than 35 papers in her disciplinary research area. In the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan, she seeks to engage students with authentic learning experiences in anatomy and biomechanics. Besides innovating in the classroom, she has published 8 papers on the scholarship of teaching and learning. She was awarded an Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship that honors tenured faculty whose commitment to and investment in undergraduate teaching has had a demonstrable impact on the intellectual development and lives of their students. Her interest in student success extends to interprofessional education (IPE) across the U-M health science schools where she has contributed to the creation of online teaching and learning materials. Currently, she is collaborating with an art historian (Dr. Jennifer Gear) on a global course (Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy) and a course on campus that uses arts-based pedagogies to develop students critical thinking and visual acuity skills using anatomical representations of the body.
