Leadership
Director

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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