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University of Wisconsin – Madison
Elizabeth Bagley (alumna 2004-2011)
Elizabeth Bagley completed her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in July 2011 and is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Urbana-Champaign. While working with Epistemic Games, she focused on the design and assessment of epistemic games. In particular, Elizabeth was interested in how players’ perceptions of their cities change after engaging in the professional practices of urban planning in Urban Science.
Jamon Opgenorth (alumnus 2010-2011)
Jamon Opgenorth worked as an undergraduate student on the engineering game Nephrotex. He graduated with a degree in Biomedical Engineering with a biomechanics emphasis, as well as a certificate in business and a biology in engineering certificate, in May 2011.
Andrew Dibble (alumnus 2011)
Andrew Dibble worked as an undergraduate with the Epistemic Games group. He graduated in May 2011 and is headed to graduate school at Harvard University.
Lauren Knoche (aluma 2011)
Lauren Knoche was the Communications Coordinator for Epistemic Games. She has a B.A. in Biology from Carleton College and previous experience in science journalism.
Dennis Paiz-Ramirez (alumnus 2009-2010)
Dennis Paiz-Ramirez is a graduate student in Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is interested in how new technologies (including video games) are used in the classroom, and the affordances they provide the user.
Elizabeth Owen (alumna 2010)
Elizabeth Owen is a graduate student in Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is committed to research in designing epistemic games to maximize student engagement and provide authentic assessment of critical thinking skills.
Christopher Krco (alumnus 2010)
Christopher Krco is a graduate of University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a B.S. in Physics. He was involved in technology for the Nephrotex game, in which freshman engineering students design a membrane for hemodialysis.
Eric Breckenfeld (alumnus 2009-2010)
Eric Breckenfeld studied Engineering Physics as an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was involved in the Nephrotex game, in which freshman engineering students will design a membrane for hemodialysis.
Devin West (alumnus 2009-2010)
Devin West studied Engineering Physics as an undergraduate. He was also involved in the Nephrotex game, in which freshman engineering students design a membrane for hemodialysis.
Timothy Kennedy (alumnus 2009-2010)
Timothy Kennedy is a graduate student in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Timothy is interested in helping stakeholders make better land use decisions. He worked with Dr. David Williamson Shaffer on the Urban Science epistemic game in which players engage in the professional practices of urban planners and learn how to become ecological thinkers in the process.
Emily Lupton (alumna 2009-2010)
Emily Lupton is a graduate student in the School of Library and Information Studies. Her interest in Epistemic Games was in solving the problem of how best to convey information to students, as well as in literacy and writing instruction. When not creating text for the project’s games, she can be found writing fiction and running marathons.
Alexander Hanna (alumnus 2009-2010)
Alexander Hanna is a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With a background in sociology and computer science, he is interested in how online social networks and media are utilized in social movement organizing. Alex helped build the Urban Science and Nephrotex game engines.
Avery Davis (alumnus 2009-2010)
Avery Davis studied Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is broadly interested in technology-based educational environments. He is particularly interested how epistemic games might be designed in ways that increase students’ motivation and engagement. Avery worked on the Validation Study.
Aran Nulty (alumna 2006-2008, MEd)
Aran Nulty studied adapting epistemic games to meet the needs of elementary school-aged players. She worked with Padraig Nash on a version of the Digital Zoo game that ran in the Spring of 2007 with a 4th-5th grade class at a Madison K-8 school.
Alecia Magnifico (alumna 2004-2007, MEd)
Alecia Marie Magnifico studied the relationships among writing, literacy, and learning – and how epistemic games can help players develop in all three areas. She worked with David Hatfield on Journalism.net, exploring how the professional practice of journalism can mediate both students’ science literacy and their knowledge about real-world writing.
Kelly Beckett (alumna 2001-2005, MEd)
Kelly Beckett focused on the development of adolescents’ ecological and environmental thinking. Her project, Eco2020, looked at how utilizing Geographic Information Systems as a technology-based learning environment affects and influences the development of this thinking.
University of Memphis
Candice Burkett (alumna 2011)
Candice Burkett graduated with honors with a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Memphis. She is interested in intelligent tutoring systems, game design, self-regulated learning and metacognitive judgments in computer-based learning environments.
Jonathan Wood (alumnus 2011)
Jonathan Wood collaborated with the Epistemic Games group while he was an experimental psychology PhD student working in the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis. He is interested in intelligent tutoring systems, modeling student knowledge and game design
Amy Johnson (alumna 2011)
Amy Johnson completed her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology (cognitive track) while working in the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis. Her research interests relate to Cognitive and Educational Psychology, including self-regulated learning, intelligent tutoring systems, cognitive load theory, and cognitive processes underlying the integration of verbal and pictorial information in multimedia and hypermedia environments.
Rhodes College
Eric Breck (alumnus 2010-2011)
Eric Breck was a collaborator of the Epistemic Games Group during his time as an assistant professor at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
