Dr. Chandra Turpen

Chandra Turpen is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park with the Physics Education Research Group.  She completed her PhD in Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder specializing in Physics Education Research.  Chandra’s work involves designing and researching contexts for learning within higher education.   In her research, Chandra draws from the perspectives of anthropology, cultural psychology, and the learning sciences.  Through in-situ studies of classroom and institutional practice, Chandra focuses on the role of culture in science learning and educational change.  Chandra pursues projects that have high potential for leveraging sustainable change in undergraduate STEM programs and makes these struggles for change a direct focus of her research efforts.