CCMS Fellows and Students
Northwestern University
Postdoctoral Fellows
Andres Archer (no information available)
Virginia Pitts joined CCMS at Northwestern University as a graduate student. In summer 2006 she defended her dissertation, Do Students Buy In? A Study of Student Goal and Role Adoption by Students in Project-Based Curricula (view the abstract).She earned her M.A. in learning sciences from Northwestern, and her B.S. in industrial engineering and management from Oklahoma State University. Currently, she is a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern.
Graduate Students
Jonathan Boxerman (no information available)
Brandy Buckingham (no information available)
Heather Johnson joined CCMS as a graduate student in the Learning Sciences at Northwestern University in September 2004 and is expected to complete her Ph.D. in June 2010. She earned her Masters of Teaching and B.A. in environmental sciences from the University of Virginia.
Mon-lin Ko (no information available)
Melissa Luna (no information available)
Kirsten Mawyer joined CCMS as a second-year graduate student at Northwestern University in September 2004 and is expected to complete her Ph.D. in December 2009. She earned a B.A. in geology and a B.A. in English from Amherst College.
Su Swarat joined CCMS in the fall of 2005 as a third-year graduate student in the Learning Sciences Program at Northwestern University. She is currently on leave from the Ph.D, program and is working as a researcher at Northwestern. She holds an M.S. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Purdue University and a B.S. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Peking University.
Alumni
Ravit Golan Duncan recently accepted a joint faculty position in the School of Education and the Division of Life Sciences at Rutgers University. She joined CCMS in June 2003 as a graduate research assistant at Northwestern University’s School of Education and completed her Ph.D. in 2005. She earned an M.S. in biology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a B.Sc. in biology from Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Dr. Golan Duncan's dissertation was titled Reasoning in Molecular Genetics: From a Cognitive Model to Instructional Design. View the abstract.
Kemi Jona joined CCMS in November 2004 as a mid-career postdoctoral fellow in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern and is now a Research Associate Professor and Director of the Office of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education Partnerships (OSEP) at Northwestern.
Lisa Kenyon recently accepted a position at Wright State University in Dayton, OH, as an Assistant Professor specializing in the biological sciences. She joined CCMS at Northwestern as a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Education and Social Policy. Dr. Kenyon received her Ed.D. in curriculum and instruction—science education from the University of Houston, her M.S. in wildlife and fisheries science from Texas A&M, and her B.S. in biology from the University of Missouri—Kansas City.
Leema Kuhn joined CCMS as a third-year graduate student in 2004 after entering the Northwestern University graduate program in September 2002. In July 2008 she defended her dissertation, Understanding the Composite Culture that Forms when Classrooms Take Up the Practice of Scientific Argumentation (view abstract), and accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. She earned her B.A. in computer science with a concentration in educational studies from Carleton College in Northfield, MN.
Eleni Kyza accepted a position as Postdoctoral Associate in educational sciences at the University of Cyprus. She had been a doctoral candidate in the Learning Sciences Program at Northwestern University. She earned her Ed.M. in technology in education from Harvard University, her B.S. in elementary education with a concentration in educational media and technology from Boston University, and her Teacher’s Diploma from the Pedagogical Academy of Cyprus.
Dr. Kyza's dissertation was titled Understanding Reflection-in-Action: An Investigation into Middle-School Students' Reflective Inquiry Practices in Science and the Role That Software Scaffolding Can Play. View the abstract.
Eunmi Lee came to CCMS as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University after completing her dissertation, Conceptualizing Pedagogical Content Knowledge from the Perspective of Experienced Secondary Science Teachers, at the University of Texas at Austin. She left CCMS to accept a position as Assistant Professor of Education at Dominican University in Illinois. Prior to joining CCMS, she taught middle and high school Earth science in Korea.
Victor Lee joined CCMS in the fall of 2005 as a Ph.D. student in the Learning Sciences Program at Northwestern University, where he worked on research in conceptual change and science and math education. In November 2008 he defended his dissertation, Getting the Picture: A Mixed-Methods Inquiry Into How Visual Representations Are Interpreted by Students, Incorporated Within Textbooks, and Integrated Into Middle-School Science Classrooms (view abstract), and accepted a position in 2009 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences at Utah State University. Before attending Northwestern, he graduated from University of California, San Diego with degrees in mathematics/applied science (B.A.) and cognitive science (B.A.) with a specialization in human-computer interaction.
Rosemary Russ (no information available)
Jennifer Schwarz recently accepted a position overseeing education programs for the Center for Learning and Teaching based at the Chicago Botanic Garden. She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. at Northwestern University in the Learning Sciences program.
Dr. Schwarz's dissertation was titled Describing Content in Middle School Science Curricula. View the abstract.
Pratim Sengupta joined the Learning Sciences Ph.D. Program at Northwestern University in August 2004 and CCMS in the fall term of 2005. He will complete his Ph.D. in August 2009 and will then join Vanderbilt University as an Assistant Professor. Prior to joining the Learning Sciences Program, he was a doctoral candidate in physics. He completed his undergraduate education in physics at Presidency College, Calcutta and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, both in India.
Darlene Slusher is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry/Physics at Coastal Carolina University. She had been a CCMS postdoctoral fellow in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. in earth and atmospheric science and her B.S. in chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Carrie Tzou left Northwestern University in 2006 to begin a postdoctoral position at the Learning in Informal and Formal Environments Center (LIFE), a Science of Learning center at the University of Washington. In December 2005, she successfully defended her dissertation, Inquiry Science as a Discourse: New Challenges for Teachers, Students, and the Design of Curriculum Materials. View the abstract. Dr. Tzou earned her M.S. in teaching and learning from Vanderbilt University, and her B.S. in biology and B.A. in English from Stanford University.
