Alanna Pawlak

Alanna is now an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Washington Bothell

Alanna was a research associate in the Center for STEM Learning at CU Boulder where she investigated and supported departmental change in higher education through her work on the Teaching Quality Framework initiative and the Departmental Action Team Project. Alanna also conducted research in physics education, focusing on collaborative learning environments in introductory physics. She has studied areas including student reasoning, student interactions, learning assistants' approaches to teaching in collaborative learning environments, and the incorporation of computation into collaborative learning environments.

Alanna earned her Ph.D. in Physics from Michigan State University (2018) and her B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from DePaul University (2012).