Current Students
Gabriela Weaver is Assistant Dean for Student Success Analytics and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She previously served as Vice Provost for Faculty Development, and director of the Institute for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development (TEFD). Prior to coming to UMass, she served on the faculty at Purdue University as professor of chemistry and science education and the Jerry and Rosie Semler Director of the Discovery Learning Research Center.
Noah Finkelstein is a Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder and conducts research is in physics education, specifically studying the conditions that support students’ interests and abilities in physics – developing models of context. In parallel, he conducts research on how educational transformations get taken up, spread, and sustained. He is a PI in the Physics Education Research (PER) group and a co-director of CU’s Center for STEM Learning.
Andrea (“Dea”) Follmer Greenhoot is Professor of Psychology, Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, and Gautt Teaching Scholar at the University of Kansas. Her research focuses on memory and cognitive development and on strategies for advancing transformed teaching and learning in higher education, informed by cognitive and developmental science. Dea is also Associate Director of the Bay View Alliance (BVA), a consortium of research universities studying strategies to scale and sustain adoption of evidence-based and equity-minded teaching practices.