Congratulations MSU alum K. Bret Staudt Willet (MAET ’15, EPET ’21) on a recently awarded Sloan Foundation grant! Dr. Staudt Willet, now an Assistant Professor at Florida State University, will investigate language used to describe computing-related master’s and doctoral programs at American Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and why faculty members chose specific terminology. The team, on which Bret is a co-PI, also wants to look at the relationship between such terminology at MSIs and the career recruitment efforts in the computing and technology workforce.
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Brian Arnold
Brian Arnold (Class of 2022)
Email: arnol100@msu.edu
Bio:
Brian Arnold is Associate professor in the Sanford College of Education at National University, where he also serves as the Academic Program Director for the Master of Science program in Designing Instructional and Educational Technology. His teaching, learning, and research sits at the intersection of education and the media arts.
Liz Owens Boltz
Liz Owens Boltz (Class of 2019)
Email: boltzeli@msu.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Bio:
Assistant Professor and Director of the Master of Arts in Educational Technology program (MAET) at MSU.
Patrick Beymer
Patrick Beymer (Class of 2020)
Email: beymerpk@ucmail.uc.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Bio:
Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati.
Amy Chapman
Amy Chapman (Class of 2019)
Email: a.b.chapman@gmail.com
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Bio:
Amy Chapman, Ph.D. is the Director of the Collaborative for Spirituality in Education, a center for research and teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University. She holds a concurrent appointment as the Director of the Innovating Forward Initiative at Teachers College, which offers seed grants to local community partners to address holistic approaches to mental health concerns. Broadly, Amy researches factors which support or inhibit youth civic participation, spirituality in education, and the ways in which social media can be used to support or thwart community and civic participation. A former public and private school teacher, Dr. Chapman holds three degrees from Boston College and a doctorate in Educational Psychology and Educational Technology from Michigan State University. Find more about Dr. Chapman and her work at www.amylchapman.com and on Twitter as @chapmaab.
Missy D. Cosby
Missy Cosby (Class of 2020)
Email: mdcosby@utk.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Bio:
Following two years of postdoctoral research at MSU and the University of Michigan, Missy is now an assistant professor in Math Education at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville.
Brittany Dillman
Brittany Dillman (Class of 2021)
Email: dillmanb@msu.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Bio:
Brittany is a the Director of Graduate Certificate Programs with the Master of Arts in Educational Technology (MAET) program in MSU’s College of Education. She develops curriculum, advises students, and teaches courses to help teachers use strong educational psychology foundations to thoughtfully integrate educational technology into their practice. she works with a dynamic team to create spaces for our learners to explore, create, and share.
Emily Freer
Emily Freer (Class of 2019)
Email: emily.a.bovee@gmail.com
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Bio:
Emily works in consumer research for a health system containing 3 acute care hospitals and over 40 health centers. She conducts quantitative and qualitative research studies to explore patients’, staff members’, and health care providers’ wants and needs.
Day Greenberg
Day Greenberg (Class of 2019)
Email: daygr@iu.edu
Pronouns: she/they
Bio:
Learning Sciences Assistant Professor at Indiana University
Sarah (Galvin) Grayvin
Sarah Galvin (Class of 2022)
Email: sgalvin119@gmail.com
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Bio:
Sarah loves her current work for C3 Industries in Ann Arbor, where she leads the Learning and Development department. Her role includes instructional design, curriculum design, teaching, ed tech tool management and implementation, and company-wide research projects related to training and professional development. As the Learning and Development Specialist, she plans, creates, and manages all educational materials and experiences for employees across modalities.
Spencer Greenhalgh
Spencer Greenhalgh (Class of 2018)
Email: spencer.greenhalgh@uky.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Bio:
Spencer has been a faculty member in the University of Kentucky’s School of Information Science since the Fall of 2018. He teaches courses on subjects such as games and learning, web content management, and data science for our Information Communication Technology bachelor’s and master’s programs and our Library and Information Science master’s program. He has become an interdisciplinary researcher who collects “digital traces” data from online platforms to study meaning-making practices within educational, religious, and political groups online. You can learn more about his teaching and scholarship at https://spencergreenhalgh.com/work
Krystal Lira
Krystal Lira (Class of 2022)
Email: lirakrystal23@gmail.com
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Bio:
Post Doc for the Research and Equity Scholarship Institute (RES-ISTE) at San Diego State University working with Dr. Felisha Herrera Villarreal. She is studying the experiences of minoritized students at 2-year and 4-year colleges majoring in STEM to best support persistence and retention in those fields.
Sarah Keenan-Lechel
Sarah Keenan-Lechel (Class of 2019)
Email: skeenanlechel@geneseeisd.org
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Bio:
Sarah is a director with the MiSTEM Network. She works with three counties in Eastern Michigan to support high-quality STEM learning by developing support systems that help districts explore and sustain place/project/problem-based education as a means of achieving equitable learning opportunities within STEM.
Holly Marich
Holly Marich (Class of 2020)
Email: holmarich@gmail.com
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Bio:
Holly is a Regional Coordinator and Learning Leader for the Northeastern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program, an initiative through the Nevada Department of Education. Through her work with preservice and in-service teachers across Nevada, she advocates for effective technology integration to maximize student learning. She is a proponent of teaching with a process approach that gives learners a voice and choice through authentic experiences.
Swati Mehta
Swati Mehta (Class of 2020)
Email: smehta@csudh.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Bio:
Dr. Swati Mehta is a critical computer science education scholar who studies culturally responsive and sustainable ways of teaching technology in computer science and STEM disciplines. In her work, Dr. Mehta pushes normative ways of engaging with coding and computational thinking concepts at the K-12 and undergraduate level. Through her work she seeks to create equitable CS learning spaces particular for those who have been historically marginalized.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Snap Inc. Institute of Computing Education
Department of Liberal Studies
California State University, Dominguez-Hills
Joshua Rosenberg
Joshua Rosenberg (Class of 2018)
University of Tennessee
Website
Assistant Professor, STEM Education
Joshua researches and teaches about STEM education, particularly science education and educational technology. He has recently authored or co-authored articles in venues such as the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, the International Journal of Educational Research, and the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education.
Katie Rich
Katie Rich (Class of 2021)
Email: krich@air.org
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Bio:
Katie joined the EPET program after ten years as a curriculum developer at the University of Chicago. Her work there focused primarily on development and testing of Everyday Mathematics, a PreK-5 mathematics curriculum program. Currently, she is a Senior Researcher at the American Institutes for Research (AIR). She works on a variety of projects related to mathematics and computer science education. Some focus on direct support to schools and districts while others are more research and evaluation oriented. Her role also includes significant attention to collaborative development of proposals for grants and contracts that contribute to an overall organizational goal of supporting equitable
Kristy A. Robinson
Kristy Robinson (Class of 2019)
Email: kristy.robinson@mcgill.ca
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Bio:
Kristy is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University. She does research on achievement motivation and she teaches both statistics and motivation courses.
Christopher Seals
Christopher Seals (Class of 2018)
Email: christopher.seals@louisville.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Bio:
Christopher is an Assistant Dean of Faculty Affairs and Advancement and an Assistant Professor at the University of Louisville’s School of Medicine. His job focuses on faculty: development, recruitment and retention. He also has a research agenda that overlaps with my job focus.
Matthew Schell
Matthew Schell (Class of 2022)
Email: schellma@msu.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Bio:
Matthew came to the EPET program after 3 years teaching science at a virtual high school in Michigan. He has a BA in Physiology from the University of Colorado, and a BS in Secondary Education from Western Michigan University. He is currently working as a post-doc for Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia on a number of NSF and NIH funded grants studying undergraduate students’ motivation, belonging, and identity.
Phil Sands
Phil Sands (Class of 2021)
Email: phil@msu.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Bio:
Academic teaching specialist in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Michigan State University. Teaching two introductory CSE courses, one for majors and one for non-majors. Faculty sponsor for Spartan Girls Who Code student organization.
Colin A. Terry
Colin Terry (Class of 2018)
Email: colinterry@gmail.com
Pronouns: he/him/his
Bio:
Colin currently serves as the Assistant Vice President for Student Life at the Colorado School of Mines. In this capacity, he serves as a senior administrator focused on student services with a direct connection to the academic endeavors of our students. These services include disability support, academic advising and support, student scholarships, and student professional development. Additionally, he is a Faculty Fellow in the McBride Honors Program at Mines. As a Fellow, he teaches one honors class annually on the intersection of psychology and technology (think EPET from 20,000 feet).
Bret Staudt Willet
Bret Staudt Willet (Class of 2021)
Email: bret.staudt.willet@gmail.com
Pronouns: he/him/his
Bio:
Assistant Professor of Instructional Systems and Learning Technologies at Florida State University. Website https://bretsw.comeducation.