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Milo Koretsky

Milo Koretsky

Professor
School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
milo.koretsky@oregonstate.edu
541-737-4591

Post-Doctoral Scholars

Ying Cao

Ying Cao

Ying Cao is a Post-Doctoral Scholar at OSU. She earned her Ph.D. in STEM Education at Tufts University. Her undergraduate background was in physics. Her research interests include math, science, and engineering education. When she is not working, she travels all over the world, and cooks in her small kitchen.
Kathy Quardokus Fisher

Kathy Quardokus Fisher 

quardokk@oregonstate.edu

Kathy Quardokus Fisher is a Post-Doctoral Scholar at OSU. She received her PhD in Science Education from Western Michigan University, M.S. in Atmospheric Science from Purdue University, and M.Ed. with a concentration in Mathematics Education from Valparaiso University. She has also taught high school mathematics, physics, and chemistry. Her current work focuses on understanding how organizational change occurs in higher education with respect to teaching and learning in STEM courses. At OSU, she is participating in a project that is supporting the use of evidence-based instructional practices in undergraduate STEM courses. She also is interested in developing curriculum which provides authentic research experiences for atmospheric science undergraduate students.

 Giovanna Scalone

Giovanna Scalone

scaloneg@oregonstate.edu

Giovanna Scalone is a Post-Doctoral Scholar at OSU. She received her PhD in the Learning Sciences from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research entails developing a shared understanding of Professional Disciplinary Engagement (PDE) in a Capstone Engineering Project where she is studying the interaction of affect, cognition, and social context through the construct of PDE.  Using a sociocultural and semiotics lens, her research methods encompass qualitative analyses of data from the student and expert teams where she is exploring the connections between model-based reasoning and engineering design.

Ann Sitomer

Ann Sitomer

Ann.Sitomer@oregonstate.edu

Ann Sitomer is a Post-Doctoral Scholar at OSU and works on the ESTEME@OSU project. Her research on the project includes examining faculty members’ definitions of particular teaching practices and what this means for developing a common lexicon for talking about practice. In addition, she is working on developing a theoretical model for examining organizational change in the context of an STEM education initiative and analyzing data to understand the potential for organizational change to inform this emerging model. Ann has a PhD in Mathematics Education (2014) undertaken under the direction of Dr. Karen Marrongelle at Portland State University. Prior to completing her doctorate, Ann taught mathematics at community colleges for 18 years, primarily at Portland Community College. She is interested in learning at the intersection of adults’ lived experience and their experiences in higher education.

Graduate Students
Christina Smith

Christina Smith

smithc7@oregonstate.edu

Christina Smith is a doctoral candidate in the School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering at OSU. She received her B.S. from the University of Utah in chemical engineering and is pursuing her Ph.D. also in chemical engineering with an emphasis on engineering education. Her research interests include undergraduate and graduate student epistemology (beliefs or frames of knowledge and learning) across STEM fields as well as the diffusion of educational innovations. Christina is currently involved with an NSF WIDER grant focused on implementing and improving evidenced-based instructional practices (EBIPs) in large enrollment STEM undergraduate courses. Her primary focus on this project is to better understand the structure and support provided for graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) and undergraduate learning assistants (LAs) in the STEM fields, and how they are facilitating cooperative learning in recitations, studios, and labs. She is researching how the environmental components, roles, and epistemologies of GTAs and LAs interact and are reflected in their practice.
Erick Nefcy

Erick Nefcy

nefcye@oregonstate.edu
Kritsa Chindanon

Kritsa Chindanon

Kritsa.Chindanon@oregonstate.edu
Jessie Keeler

Jessie Keeler

keelerje@oregonstate.edu

Jessie Marie Keeler is a Graduate Student at OSU. Her current research focuses on analyzing and improving the implementation of active learning methods in various chemical engineering courses. Among other research goals, she is interested in identifying and examining the types of student thinking and meaning making processes inherent in active learning methods. In addition, she also intends to compare the enactment of similar active learning methods within different courses.

Research Staff
Tom Ekstedt

Tom Ekstedt

tom.ekstedt@oregonstate.edu

Tom Ekstedt is an Analyst Programmer responsible for developing, maintaining and supporting the group's educational software solutions, including the AIChE Concept Warehouse, the Interactive Virtual Labs and the Industrially Situated Virtual Labs. Additionally, he works with the group and other collaborators to identify and road-map future technology-based educational capabilities and systems.