CCMS Fellows and Students
Michigan State University
Graduate Students
David McLaughlin joined CCMS in the fall of 2005 as a graduate student in the College of Education at Michigan State University after teaching middle school math and science in Colombia, Turkey, and Thailand. He earned his M.A. in curriculum and teaching from Michigan State , his B.Ed. in science education from Queens University , and his B.Sc. in biology from University of Western Ontario .
Alumni
Beth Covitt joined CCMS in the August 2005 as a postdoctoral fellow in the College of Education at Michigan State University. She earned her Ph.D. in environmental education and conservation psychology in 2003 and her M.S. in resource policy and behavior in 1998, both from the University of Michigan. She is now a Visiting Assistant Professor at Michigan State.
Mark Enfield recently accepted a position as a Research Associate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He joined CCMS at Michigan State as a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Education. He earned his M.Ed. at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond and his B.S. in physics at East Central University, Ada, Oklahoma.
Dean Grosshandler joined CCMS in November 2004 as a first-year postdoctoral fellow in the College of Education at Michigan State University. In 2007, Dr. Grosshandler left MSU to become Associate Director at the newly created Office of STEM Education Partnerships (OSEP) at Northwestern University. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics, science, and technology education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his M.S.T. and B.A. at the University of Chicago.
David Grueber joined CCMS as a graduate student in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. In 2008 he completed his Ph.D. and accepted a position as Assistant Professor in Teacher Education at Wayne State University. He received his B.S. in biology from the University of Michigan and a Teaching Certificate from Concordia College, Ann Arbor.
Kristin Gunckel joined CCMS as a graduate student in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. In 2008 after defending her dissertation, Preservice Elementary Teachers Learning to Use Curriculum Tools to Plan and Teach Science Lessons, she accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She has an M.S. in geology from the University of Montana and a B.S. in geology (with a minor in watershed science) from Colorado State University, and obtained teacher certification in secondary science from the University of New Mexico.
John Lockhart (no information available)
Felicia Moore is currently an Assistant Professor of Science Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Dr. Moore had been a CCMS postdoctoral fellow at Michigan State University. She earned her Ph.D. in science education from Florida State University.
Blakely Tsurusaki joined CCMS as a first-year graduate student at Michigan State University in August 2004. In 2008 she received her Ph.D. and accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Washington State University, Pullman. Her dissertation was entitled Dissertation: Connecting School Science and Students’ Everyday Lives She has earned a Georgia Educator Certificate in biology, an M.Ed. in science education from the University of Georgia, and a B.S. in biology from the University of Puget Sound.
Michelle Williams (no information available)
Christopher Wilson joined CCMS in August 2005 as a postdoctoral fellow in the College of Education at Michigan State University after receiving his Ph.D. in zoology (evolutional biology) from Michigan State in 2000. In summer 2007, Dr. Wilson left Michigan State to join BSCS as a research specialist. His B.Sc. in zoology was from the University of Liverpool, UK.
