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Tom
Marino has been teaching students in the
health science professions since 1978 when he was an assistant professor at the
University of Kansas Medical Center. From there he went to Temple University School of
Medicine where he has taught gross anatomy, histology, embryology, neuroanatomy,
developmental biology and cell biology to medical, dental, podiatric, and graduate
students. Heavily involved in laboratory research earlier in his career, he studied the
development of the heart. Of particular interest was the question of cell proliferation in
the heart.
In the early nineties, Prof. Marino was the President of the Temple University Faculty
Senate and then became the Director of the University Honors Program. During this time he
became fascinated with using technology to help students learn. In particular, he taught a
course in Intellectual Heritage at Temple and implemented the use of a class listserv to
supplement class discussions. In his embryology course, he designed multimedia based
lectures that helped students understand the three dimensional movements that occur during
development. He also co-authored a CD called The Histology Laboratory Assistant with Drs.
Albert Lamperti and Marvin Sodicoff that is currently used to help medical and dental
students learn histology.
Since 1994, Tom has been a member of Temple’s Teaching, Learning and Technology
Roundtable. Starting in 1997 he has been actively working with the TLT Group and has been
especially involved with the development of the group’s Visions Workshops. He has
spoken on the topic of “Technology and the Humanistic Classroom” at the TLT
Summer Institute and written on “A Vision of a Safe Science Classroom” for The
Technology Source. He is very interested in developing new classroom methodologies or
infusing technology into old methods to help students learn in a safe and loving
environment that is conducive to collaborative lifelong learning. Tom received his B.A
from Brown University in 1974 and his Ph.D. in Anatomy from Temple University in 1978. He
is currently a full professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Temple.
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