Speaker Bios:
Dr. Hannah Sevian, Program Director, National Science Foundation, Division of Undergraduate Education
Hannah Sevian is a Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation, with primary responsibilities in the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, the Math and Science Partnership Program, and the Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (Chemistry) Program.
She is currently on leave of absence from the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Curriculum & Instruction.
Before joining NSF, Sevian served as PI of an NSF-funded Math and Science Partnership Targeted project, and she continues to collaborate with the project team to design and implement professional development programs for K12 STEM teachers and community college and university STEM faculty, including a Noyce-funded master teacher program. As part of these projects, she also conducts research on STEM faculty involvement in K12 outreach, teacher content knowledge and science curriculum coherence, and students' interests, aspirations and learning outcomes in STEM.
Her current chemical education research focuses on studying the effects on student learning of green, inquiry-based chemistry labs, and on studying students' conceptions across K12-university and science domains along a particle nature of matter learning progression.
Prior to her appointment at the university, she taught sheltered, Spanish bilingual, and AP chemistry and physics in an urban public high school. Sevian holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Dr. John E. Peck, Executive Director of Family Farm Defenders
John E. Peck grew up on a 260 acre farm in central Minnesota, has a B.A. in Economics from Reed College and a PhD in Land Resources from UW-Madison. He has been the executive director of Family Farm Defenders for the last eight years, and is also a part-time instructor of Economics and Environmental Studies at MATC.
