Leadership

Director

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Tessa Andrews, PhD

Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor

Department of Genetics
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Departmental Profile

Areas of educational research: Professional Development; Conceptual and Skills Development; Teacher Knowledge and Practice; Sociocultural and Psychosocial Development

Levels of educational research: Undergraduate; Faculty

Executive Committee

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Molly Bolger, PhD
Co-Chair, Events & Workshops Committee

Associate Professor, Department of Cellular Biology
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Departmental Profile

Areas of educational research: Mechanisms that underly the learning processes of science; Science-Practice Based Curriculum and Instruction

Levels of educational research: Undergraduate

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Julie Grainy, PhD
Co-Chair, Events & Workshops Committee

Lecturer, Department of Microbiology
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Departmental Profile

Areas of educational research: Active learning

Levels of educational research: Undergraduate

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Kaitlyn N Stormes, PhD
Co-Chair, Events & Workshops Committee

Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education
Departmental Profile

Areas of educational research: Computing, identity, self-efficacy, and belonging

Levels of educational research: Undergraduate

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James Huff, PhD
Co-Chair, Contributions Committee

Associate Professor of Engineering Education
College of Engineering | Engineering Education Transformations Institute
Departmental Profile

Areas of educational research: Identity, Professional shame, Interpretative phenomenological analysis

Levels of educational research: Graduate Students, Faculty

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Logan Fiorella, PhD
Co-Chair, Contributions Committee

Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
College of Education
Departmental Profile

Areas of educational research: Cognitive Science; Instructional design; Learning strategies; Multi-media learning; Psychology of habit

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Dax Ovid, PhD
Co-Chair, Membership & By-Laws Committee

Assistant Professor, Physiology & Pharmacology | Institute for Women’s Studies Affiliate
College of Veterinary Medicine
Departmental Profile

Areas of educational research: Non-content instructor language, Pre-health and professional student experiences, Science communication

Levels of educational research: Undergraduate; Graduate; Faculty

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Julie Stanton, PhD
Co-Chair, Membership & By-Laws Committee

Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Cellular Biology
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Departmental Profile

Areas of educational research: Sociocultural and Psychosocial Development; Metacognition

Levels of educational research: Undergraduate

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Tj Montgomery
Co-Chair, Graduate Student and Post-doc Committee

PhD Student, Department of Genetics
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Departmental Profile

Areas of educational research: Metacognition, AI in Knowledge and Learning

Levels of educational research: Undergraduate

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Shavi Ediriarachchi
Co-Chair, Graduate Student and Post-doc Committee

Graduate Research Associate, Department of Cellular Biology
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Departmental Profile

Areas of educational research: Introductory Lecture-Based and Laboratory-Based Courses

Levels of educational research: Undergraduates

The SEER Center is part of Owens Institute for Behavioral Research.

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Direct questions about OIBR assistance to:

Andrea Horsman

Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
Outreach and Communications Manager
706-542-6074
ahorsman@uga.edu