Kristi Rudenga

Kristi Rudenga is director of Notre Dame Learning’s Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence as well as an associate teaching professor, with a concurrent appointment in the Department of Psychology.

Helping faculty members, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars to develop and grow as teachers, she consults with instructors on pedagogical approaches, facilitates seminar series and workshops on teaching and mentoring, and manages other programming aimed at improving teaching at Notre Dame.

Kristi teaches Food and the Brain, a literature-based neuroscience course, as well as Pedagogy and Practice in the College Classroom, a three-credit graduate course on teaching. Her current research focuses on effective mentoring and on impostor phenomena.

Kristi is an elected member of the Core Committee of the POD Network, the national organization supporting educational development. Before coming to Notre Dame, she was associate director and science education specialist at the Yale Teaching Center. She earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Yale University, studying central brain representation of taste and food reward.