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Shanna Hilborn joined the Popova group!

We are so excited to welcome Shanna to our research group! Shanna is starting her Ph.D. journey having prior experiences conducting chemistry…

Maia and Sam Pazicni won NSF funding to explore connections between instructional practice and student learning in inorganic chemistry learning environments!

https://aas.uncg.edu/research/2022/08/01/dr-maia-popova-chemistry-receives-new-nsf-grant-to-study-stem-teaching-and-learning/ Understanding the complex relationships among teaching, course environments, and student learning is important to inform improvements in science, technology, engineering, and…

We published a case study characterizing organic chemistry instructors’ approaches toward teaching about representations!

Multi-framework case study characterizing organic chemistry instructors’ approaches toward teaching about representations Representational competence (RC) is a set of skills to reflectively…

Tamera awarded the 2022 NOBCChE Advancing Science Conference Grant as “one of country’s best and brightest upcoming scientist”!

Tamera will attend the NOBCChE’s 49th Annual Meeting, September 26-29 at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida. We are so excited…

Maia selected as the 2022 JACS Au Early Career Advisory Board Members!

JACS Au aspires to be a premier gold open access journal covering the full breadth of chemistry and allied fields. For this…

Member Spotlight: Julia Hoang

Julia has been with us since October 2020 and became such a valuable asset to our research group! She is very diligent…

Rehnuma Ahmed, Carly Beck, Elizabeth Cieza, and Zoe Edmonson joined the Popova group!

We are so excited to welcome Zoe, Elizabeth, Carly, and Rehnuma to the group! Yey for all the great things that we…

Lyniesha and Eshan gave talks at the NC CER meeting at Duke University!

Ward, L., Hoang, J., Popova, M., Teaching experiences of instructors within one chemistry department during the Covid-19 pandemic, NC CER Meeting, Duke…

PRG had its first research retreat to reflect on everything that we have learned about RC in the three years we studied this construct!

The group’s graduate students and postdocs got together for a day-long research retreat to reflect on everything we have learned about representational…