People

Ira Caspari

Assistant Professor, Departments of Chemistry & Education

Sociocultural perspective, Activity systems, Interaction analysis, In-the-moment learning

Julia Gouvea

Associate Professor, Departments of Education and Biology

Students’ modeling and experimentation in biology

David Hammer

Director of IRLI; Professor, Departments of Education and Physics & Astronomy

Learners’ productive resources; responsive teaching

Andrew Izsák

Director of Stem Education; Professor, Department of Education

Teaching and learning multiplication

Kristen Bethke-Wendell

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Adjunct Associate Professor of Education

Engineering education, Discourse practices for knowledge construction, Teacher learning in engineering

Milo Koretsky
(Starting April, 2021)

McDonnell Family Bridge Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering and Education

Engineering education, Instructional design and technology development, Organizational change, Social practice theory

Lara Appleby

Postdoctoral Scholar, The Listening Project

Increasing instructor awareness of students’ disciplinary thinking

Desen S. Ozkan

Postdoctoral Associate in CEEO and IRLI

Interdisciplinary curricula

Robert Hayes

PhD Candidate in STEM Education

Emergent mechanisms of learning in science

Isabella Stuopis

PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering

Undergraduate learning in core mechanical engineering courses

Sara Willner-Giwerc

PhD Candidate at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

Designing technologies and instructional tools to maximize solution diversity

Ian Descamps

M.S. Student in STEM Education

Student framing and engagement in non-traditional instructional labs

James Adler

Associate Professor of Mathematics

IRLI Start; Students’ conceptual learning in math

Shuchin Aeron

Associate Professor, Dept. of ECE

Assessment through Machine Learning

Tim Atherton

Associate Professor of Physics

Computational skills & Inclusive environments

Steven Bell

Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

IRLI Start; Modeling student learning

Ethan Danahy

Research Associate Professor Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) Department of Computer Science

Pedagogy and curriculum in introductory engineering

Vesal Dini

Lecturer, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Epistemic empathy between teachers and students

Brian Gravel

Assistant Professor and Director of Elementary STEM Education

Computational making, materiality in modeling

Mark Hempstead

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Engineering tools for educational research

Erica Kemmerling

Assistant Teaching Professor of Mechanical Engineering

IRLI Start; Individualized learning in engineering

Joshua Kritzer

Professor, Department of Chemistry

IRLI Start

Ellise LaMotte

Director, Center for STEM Diversity; Research Assistant Professor, CEEO

Underrepresented students in STEM

Diane McKay

Director, Friedman Graduate Certificate Programs; Assistant Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

IRLI Start; Nutrition education

Eric Miller

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with Adjunct appointments in the Departments of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering

Tools for automated analysis of qualitative learning data

Merredith Portsmore

Director Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Research Assistant Professor, CEEO

Online teaching; Undergraduate learning in outreach contexts; Preparing doctoral students as faculty

Chris Rogers

Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Developing new technologies to promote student-driven learning

Holly A. Taylor

Professor of Psychology; Co-Director Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Sciences

IRLI Start; Active student engagement

Ayanna K. Thomas

Professor of Psychology

Learning efficacy and efficiency in group problem solving tasks

Diren P. Turner

Lecturer in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry

IRLI Start; Student approaches to learning in chemistry

Steering Committee

Postdoctoral Scholars

Graduate Student Researchers

Collaborating Faculty and Staff