Gregory Rushton, Ph.D. Director (615) 494-8738 8688 dsb	Kevin Ragland, Ph.D. Associate Director (615) 904-8405
Casey Penston Coordinator (615) 898-2269	Sherry Schafer Support Staff (615) 898-5762
Steven Berryhill, Ph.D.  Interim Assistant Director (615) 898-5411	Ying Jin, Ph.D. Faculty Fellow (615) 898-2320
Grant E. Gardner, Ph.D. Associate Director (615) 898-2062	Sarah K. Bleiler-Baxter, Ph.D. Associate Director (615) 898-2616
Chaney Mosley, Ph.D. Assistant Director (615) 898-8037	Sarah Gwinn Grant Writer (615) 898-8986

Post Doctoral Research Fellows 

Joshua W. Reid, Ph.D. (615) 904-8573

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Graduate Assistants

Shaghayegh Fateh

Shaghayegh is a first year PhD student at Middle Tennessee State University, studying Math and Science Education. Her concentration is on Chemical Education which includes the study of the teaching and learning of chemistry. Her research interests include identifying student misconceptions in chemistry, chemistry instructional strategies, and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in chemistry. Recently, she has joined The Rushton Research Group, working on a project titled “PDConnect: A Scalable Community Approach to Improving Instruction in AP Chemistry Nationwide.”

 

Andrea Reeder

Andrea is a third-year doctoral student in the Mathematics and Science Education Program of Middle Tennessee State University. She has an interdisciplinary concentration that integrates biology and chemistry, and her research interest is STEM teacher leadership. As a part of the Rushton Research Group, she worked on Teacher Leadership (T-Lead): Investigating the Persistence and Trajectories of Noyce Master Teaching Fellows.

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