Name: Amber Beisly
Title: Assistant Professor of Early Child Education
Academic Area(s) of Interest: Young Children’s social/emotional and cognitive well-being; learning math and science through play (at all ages)
Fun or Interesting Fact (or facts) About Yourself: Although a Sooner at heart, my high school, undergraduate, and master’s degree schools’ all used orange and black in their mascot.
Name: Richard Velasco
Title: Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education
Academic Area(s) of Interest: Rehumanizing Mathematics, Math Preservice Teacher Education, STEM Teacher Leadership, Informal STEM Learning
Fun or Interesting Fact About Yourself: I love to travel and being a tourist and have visited over 25 countries across four continents.
Name: Junghee Choi
Title: Assistant Professor of Adult and Higher Education
Name: Wonkyung "Won" Jang
Title: Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education
Academic Area(s) of Interest: Physical, social, and linguistic environment of early learning classrooms and the relation between enhanced language learning and classroom experiences; implementation science approaches in early care and education.
Fun or Interesting Fact (or facts) About Yourself: Jang worked as a preschool teacher and language and literacy intervention specialist.
Name: Cameron Demski
Title: Senior Data Collection Analyst
Fun or Interesting Fact About Yourself: I’ve visited 12 different countries.
Name: Julianna Lopez Kershen
Title: Assistant Professor of English Education
Name: Alison Koenka
Title: Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology
Academic Area(s) of Interest: STEM motivation in secondary school and higher education, the motivational consequences of feedback, and equity.
Fun or Interesting Fact About Yourself: I was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, and played soccer for 15 years.
Name: Patrick Tadlock
Title: Assistant Director of CEDaR
Fun or Interesting Fact About Yourself: I have run several half marathons and just spent two and a half years living in northern Utah.
Name: Amy Mueller
Title: Assistant Professor of Learning Technologies
