Education:

Including, but not limited to:

Bachelor of Science in Business Management (w/honors) –University of Findlay

Terra State College–art, business and marketing

Vocational Commercial Art Degree

Continuing Education & Research

Mandy M. Roth actively pursues continuing education across science, medicine, history, law, and cultural systems as part of her research process for building immersive, high-depth fictional worlds.

Her research spans hundreds of hours of formal study across multiple disciplines and institutions — including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Yale University, Stanford University, University of California Berkeley, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, and many others.

Readers frequently cite the depth of research and world-building as a defining element of her work.

Anthropology

• Introduction to Biological Anthropology — Texas A&M

Archaeology & Ancient Studies

• Archaeology: from Dig to Lab and Beyond — University of Reading
• Hannibal — Stanford
• Introduction to Ancient Egypt and Its Civilization — University of Pennsylvania
• Pyramids of Giza: Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology — Harvard
• Roman Art and Archaeology — University of Arizona
• The Ancient Greek Hero — Harvard
• The Ancient Greeks — Wesleyan University
• The Ancient Mediterranean World — UC Berkeley
• The Changing Landscape of Ancient Rome: Archaeology and History of the Palatine Hill — Sapienza University of Rome
• Virgil's Aeneid: Anatomy of a Classic — Stanford
• Wonders of Ancient Egypt — University of Pennsylvania

Architecture & Design

• Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes — MIT
• History of Architecture — Ohio State University
• Making Architecture — IE School of Architecture and Design
• Roman Architecture — Yale
• Sustainability in Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction — Universitat Politècnica de València
• The Architectural Imagination — Harvard
• Theory of City Form — MIT

Biology, Genetics & Biomedical Science

• Biochemistry: Biomolecules, Methods, and Mechanisms — MIT
• Foundations of Computational and Systems Biology — MIT
• Frontiers of Biomedical Engineering — Yale
• Fundamentals of Biology — MIT
• General Biochemistry — MIT
• General Biochemistry and Molecular Biology — UC Berkeley
• General Human Anatomy / Integrative Biology — UC Berkeley
• Genetic Engineering in Medicine, Agriculture, and Law — UCLA
• Genetics: The Fundamentals — MIT
• Genomes and Diversity — NYU
• Genomic Medicine — MIT
• Genomics & Computational Biology — MIT
• Genomics in Healthcare: Genomic Technologies in Clinical Diagnostics — Molecular Techniques — St. George's University of London
• Genomics in Healthcare: Genomic Technologies in Clinical Diagnostics — Next Generation Sequencing — St. George's University of London
• Introduction to Biochemistry — Oregon State University
• Introduction to Biology — Carnegie Mellon University
• Introduction to Biology – The Secret of Life — MIT
• Introduction to Genetics and Evolution — Duke University
• Introductory Biology — MIT
• Molecular Biology – Part 1: DNA Replication and Repair — MIT
• Molecular Biology – Part 2: Transcription and Transposition — MIT
• Molecular Biology – Part 3: RNA Processing and Translation — MIT
• Sharks! Global Biodiversity, Biology, and Conservation — University of Queensland & Cornell University
• Synthetic Biology's Industrial Revolution — Stanford / World Science U
• Understanding the Body: How Does the Body Use DNA as a Blueprint? — University of Aberdeen
• Understanding the Body: What Drives the Body? — University of Aberdeen
• Understanding the Body: What Is the Body? — University of Aberdeen
• Whole Genome Sequencing: Decoding the Language of Life and Health — Health Education England
• Bacterial Genomes: Disease Outbreaks and Antimicrobial Resistance — Wellcome Genome Campus

Chemistry

• Biochemistry 1 — Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
• Chemical Thermodynamics I: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics — MIT
• Cosmic Origin of the Chemical Elements — MIT
• Freshman Organic Chemistry I — Yale
• Freshman Organic Chemistry II — Yale
• Fundamentals of Chemistry — Missouri State University
• General Chemistry I: Atoms, Molecules, and Bonding — MIT
• General Chemistry II: Chemical Equilibrium, Kinetics, and Transition Metals — MIT
• Introduction to Physical Chemistry — University of Manchester
• Introduction to Solid State Chemistry — MIT
• Organic Chemistry — UC Irvine
• Physical Chemistry — MIT
• Principles of Chemical Science — MIT

Climate, Environment & Sustainability

• Adaptation to Climate Change — University of Cambridge
• Blue Planet: Introduction to Oceanography — UCLA
• Education for Sustainable Living: Environment — UCLA
• Energy Decisions, Markets and Policies — MIT
• Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast — University of Chicago
• How Climate Works — Princeton
• Mitigating Agriculture's Impact — Yale
• Oceans in Peril — Mission Blue / World Science U
• On Thin Ice: Climate Change and the Cryosphere — UC Irvine
• Our Earth's Future — American Museum of Natural History
• Radar — University of Oklahoma
• Sustainable Living — UCLA
• The Atmosphere, the Ocean, and Environmental Change — Yale
• The Habitable Planet: A Systems Approach to Environmental Science — Harvard / Smithsonian
• The History of Ancient Environments, Climate, and Life — MIT

Computer Science, Programming, Data Science & AI

• Against All Odds: Inside Statistics — Harvard
• Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning — Stanford
• Data Science series (Linear Regression, Probability, Visualization, etc.) — Harvard
• Harvard's Introduction to Computer Science (CS50) — Harvard
• Introduction to Algorithms — MIT
• Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science — MIT
• Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python — MIT
• Introduction to Python Programming — Udacity
• Machine Learning (Andrew Ng) — Stanford
• Machine Learning for Healthcare — MIT
• Performance Engineering of Software Systems — MIT
• Programming for Everybody (Python) — University of Michigan
• Python — Google
• Python — MIT
• Python Data Analysis — Rice University
• Python Data Representations — Rice University
• Python Data Visualization — Rice University
• Python for Data Science and AI — IBM
• Python Programming Essentials — Rice University
• Various Data Science and AI courses — Google / Udacity / IBM

Design, Entrepreneurship & Business

• Becoming the Next Bill Nye: Writing and Hosting the Educational Show — MIT
• Blitzscaling — Stanford
• Cars: Past, Present & Future — Stanford
• Crash Course in Design Thinking — Stanford
• How to Speak — MIT
• Microeconomics: The Power of Markets — University of Pennsylvania
• Technology Entrepreneurship — Stanford

Diversity & Inclusion

• Introduction to Bias — Microsoft Inclusion Journey

Economics

• Development Economics — MIT
• Economic Geography of the Industrial World — UC Berkeley
• Economic History of the Soviet Union — Marginal Revolution University
• Financial Markets — Yale
• Psychology and Economics — UC Berkeley
• World Economic History Before the Industrial Revolution — UC Davis

Forensics & Forensic Psychology

• Forensic Psychology — The Open University
• Introduction to Forensic Science — University of Strathclyde

Herbalism

• Becoming an Herbalist Course — The Herbal Academy

History — Ancient & Classical

• Ancient Greece: City and Society — La Trobe University
• Ancient Greece: Myth, Art & War — La Trobe University
• Ancient Greek History — Yale
• Emperors of Rome — La Trobe University
• Greek and Roman Mythology — University of Pennsylvania
• Introduction to Ancient Greek History — Yale
• The Roman World — La Trobe University

History — Medieval

• Age of Cathedrals — Yale
• Deciphering Secrets: The Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Europe — University of Colorado
• Magic in the Middle Ages — University of Barcelona
• Medieval British History — Bilkent University
• Medieval Europe (500–1500) — Bilkent University
• The Book of Kells: Exploring an Irish Medieval Masterpiece — Trinity College Dublin
• The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World — Universiteit Leiden
• The Crusades — University of Houston
• The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000 — Yale
• The Flowering of the Middle Ages — University of Houston
• The Normans — University of Houston
• The Vikings — University of Houston

History — Modern European & British

• Early Imperial Russia — La Trobe University
• Early Modern England: Politics, Religion & Society under the Tudors and Stuarts — Yale
• European Civilization, 1648–1945 — Yale
• European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present — UC Berkeley
• European Cultural History, 1500–1815 — University of Wisconsin–Madison
• European Cultural History, 1660–1870 — University of Wisconsin–Madison
• European Cultural History, 1880–1920 — University of Wisconsin–Madison
• France Since 1871 — Yale
• Ireland in Rebellion (1782–1916) — Trinity College Dublin
• Russian History: From Lenin to Putin — UC Santa Cruz
• The French Revolution — University of Melbourne
• The Great War and Modern Philosophy — KU Leuven University
• The Holocaust — An Introduction (I): Nazi Germany: Ideology, The Jews and the World — Tel Aviv University
• The Holocaust — An Introduction (II): The Final Solution — Tel Aviv University
• The Making of Modern Ukraine — Yale
• The Peculiar Modernity of Britain, 1848–2000 — UC Berkeley

History — American

• 20th Century United States History — University of Houston
• African American History: Emancipation to the Present — Yale
• Age of Jefferson — University of Virginia
• Ben Franklin and the World of the Enlightenment — Stanford
• Colonial and Revolutionary America — Stanford
• History of New York City: A Social History — NYU
• History of the United States Since 1877 — Missouri State University
• Intellectual History of the United States since 1865 — UC Berkeley
• Introduction to American Studies — UC Berkeley
• The American Founders and Their World — Stanford
• The American Revolution — Yale
• The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845–1877 — Yale
• The Kennedy Half Century — University of Virginia
• The Vietnam War — University of Houston
• US History: from Civil War to Present — UC Berkeley

History — World, Global & Geopolitics

• Australian Aboriginal History — La Trobe University
• CIA in the Third World — University of Houston
• History of Iran to the Safavid Period — Columbia University
• History of the World Since 1500 CE — Columbia University
• History of the World to 1500 CE — Columbia University
• Modern Civilization: 1750 to Present — UCLA
• Pirates, Smugglers, and the Modern World — University of Houston
• Terrorism and Counterterrorism — Georgetown University
• The Americas: Identity, Culture, and Power — University of Houston
• The Modern World, Part One: Global History from 1760 to 1910 — University of Virginia
• The Modern World, Part Two: Global History since 1910 — University of Virginia
• The Western Tradition — UCLA
• War, Globalization, and Terror — University of Houston
• World Civilization Since 1500 — University of Houston
• World Civilization to 1500 — University of Houston
• World Revolutions — University of Houston

Law

• Artificial Intelligence and Law — Lund University
• CopyrightX — Harvard Law School
• Environmental Law and Policy — UC Berkeley
• Environmental Politics and Law — Yale
• Freedom of Speech and the Press — UC Berkeley
• Introduction to Copyright Law — MIT
• Politics and Media Freedom — University of Westminster
• Theories of Law and Society — UC Berkeley

Medicine & Public Health

• Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 — Yale
• Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases — UC Berkeley
• Global Health: Beyond Ebola — University System of Maryland
• Lessons from Ebola: Preventing the Next Pandemic — Harvard
• Medical Terminology — Doane University
• PredictionX: John Snow and the Cholera Outbreak of 1854 — Harvard
• Vital Signs: Understanding What the Body Is Telling Us — University of Pennsylvania

Philosophy, Ethics, Religion & Well-Being

• Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? — Harvard
• PredictionX: Diviner's Guide — Harvard
• PredictionX: Lost Without Longitude — Harvard
• Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking — Harvard
• Science, Magic and Religion — UCLA
• The Science of Well-Being — Yale

Physics

• Atomic and Optical Physics I — MIT
• Atomic and Optical Physics II — MIT
• Fundamentals of Physics I — Yale
• Fundamentals of Physics II — Yale
• Physics I: Classical Mechanics — MIT
• Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism — MIT
• Quantum Physics 1 — MIT
• Quantum Physics 2 — MIT
• Quantum Physics Made Relatively Simple — Cornell University

Psychology & Behavioral Science

• Human Behavioral Biology — Stanford

Writing & Communication

• Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter — Harvard
• The Writing Process — UC Berkeley

Verified Certificates

HarvardX – An Online Learning Initiative by Harvard University through edX

• Verified Certificate of Achievement: PredictionX: John Snow and the Cholera Outbreak of 1854
• Issued: Apr 2019 — No Expiration Date
• Credential ID: f6daa8ca3c654a59a6ed607f66bfb959

Ongoing Study

This represents a portion of completed and ongoing coursework across archaeology, architecture, history, climate science, programming, data science, chemistry, biology, physics, philosophy, law, and more. Additional areas of study are continually being added as part of active research for future books and series.

Note: Mandy M. Roth does not endorse these institutions, nor do they endorse her. All coursework is undertaken independently as part of her research process.

Memberships:

Including, but not limited to:

Member of the Authors Guild

Authorpreneur member of Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) 

Member of Novelists, Inc. (NINC)

Was a Romance Writers of America (RWA) PAN member with over 100 titles published