Learning Sciences & Human Development
William 鈥淏ill鈥 Penuel, Distinguished Professor of Learning Sciences and Human Development in the School of Education, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences鈥攐ne of the highest honors in academia and a historic milestone for the school. Penuel, whose election was announced on April 22, is the first faculty member from education ever elected to the Academy.
Collette Heskett鈥檚 parents always lovingly remind her that she was born to be in science education. From a young age, Heskett spent most of her time playing 鈥渢eacher鈥 with her toys or聽observing bugs in their habitats for hours. Many years later, Heskett is now the 2026 麻豆免费版下载Boulder School of Education's Outstanding Capstone graduate.
When Marisa Mendoza-Maurer moved from Hawai鈥檌 to Colorado to begin her PhD, she didn鈥檛 come alone. She brought with her a husband, two young children and a decade's worth of classroom experience as a secondary English teacher. The leap, across an ocean and into a rigorous doctoral program, was nothing short of monumental.
Sarah Leonhart credits her support system for helping her pursue and persist in graduate school. Much like hucking a cliff鈥攈er true story of accidentally skiing off a cliff with friends, a move reserved for adrenaline junkies 鈥
Quinton Andre Freeman comes from a family of educators. 聽His wife, Adrienne, is a middle school principal.聽His parents, now a聽retired county agent聽and a retired special education teacher,聽met while student
A leader on campus in broadening participation in STEM education as the most recent director of the BOLD Center, Tanya Ennis is committed to developing and studying strategies that can create a more equitable environment for
Douglas Watkins already had a聽busy and fulfilling career and family life, when聽he enrolled in the master鈥檚 program in the 麻豆免费版下载Boulder School of Education to deepen his grounding in learning sciences. With a newly minted
Lianna Nixon is an environmental photographer and activist, but on Earth Day 2020, she was not thinking about marches or demonstrations. That was the day she found out if her spot on the world鈥檚 largest polar research expedition was still on despite
College opportunities, not to mention graduate studies, were rare in the small Southern African country of Zimbabwe where Tafadzwa Tivaringe grew up. With unyielding support from his parents, his community, and mentors, Tivaringe, or 鈥淭aphy鈥 as he