Graduate Student Profiles

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics EducationAlex is a PhD student in STEM Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research explores how students resist the dominance of school mathematics within and outside the classroom. She is currently learning how to create a sense of community between researchers and collaborators through sharing and leveraging stories of resistance to quantitative silencing of qualitative experiences.

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics EducationStudies the experiences of Black women in postsecondary mathematics and engineering spaces.

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics EducationScarlett Calvin is currently a PhD student of STEM education in the department of Curriculum and Instruction at UT. After participating in the STEM education Master's program while teaching elementary students of all ages, Scarlett has decided to expand her work to include research in how young people integrate their growing civic identities into transdisciplinary learning environments.

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics EducationMy name is Chris Deyo and I am in my second year of my master's program, pursuing a degree in STEM Education. Prior to coming back to UT for graduate school, I taught high school mathematics in the Austin area for 5 years. During this time, I took note of issues surrounding equity and access for students in my math classrooms, specifically regarding my students of color and those a part of the LGBTQIA+ community....

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics EducationRace, Equity, Medical Education (UME, GME, and Faculty Development)

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics EducationHannah's research examines Learning Analytics in the STEM learning context from a situated and embodied perspective. Her research focus lies in the fields of Learning Analytics and Learning Sciences, particularly within the domains of Computer Science (CS) education and Mathematics education. To learn more about her work, please visit her personal website: https://www.hakeounghannahlee.com/

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics EducationFranchesca Maria Lyra is a third-year doctoral student studying STEM Education at the University of Texas at Austin. She primarily utilizes quantitative methods in her work. Her main interests include high school/post-secondary biology classroom experiences and more broadly, equity in STEM education. She currently researches the impact of professor interactions as they relate to the experiences of undergraduate women and non-binary individuals in engineering.

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics EducationI interest with curriculum design and instruction practices especially in STEM education for both rural and urban schools. STEM education contents will be focussed to environment conservation and renewable green energy. Both concerns will be developed by curriculum development project in STEM school or curriculum and considering to related STEM field.

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics EducationLauren Rigby is a STEM Education Doctoral Student and Graduate Assistant for the OpenSciEd Project and DREAM Project. Her research interests center around the mathematical conceptual understanding of students with disabilities. Her master’s thesis added to the current research by providing an existence proof that students with disabilities can increase their conceptual understanding and can learn in a reformed classroom environment. Prior to UT, Lauren worked as a junior high math teacher for 8 years...

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics EducationI hope to explore ways to center mathematics education in the people and communities it should be designed to serve, simultaneously redefining narrow societal notions of mathematical intelligence and human worth. I am also interested in how such changes in mathematics education must work harmoniously with different cultural settings to impact change within both local and global contexts.