Dr. Hyunju Lee, Program Specialist 

 

Hyunju is a program specialist in the Professional Services division of the SSEC. Before joining the group, Hyunju was a postdoctoral research fellow at Utah State University and at the University of South Florida. And, she was a guest researcher at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands. Hyunju participated in NSF-funded longitudinal PD projects that science and mathematics teachers learned to implement technology in science inquiry pedagogy. Hyunju received the NASA HST Education & Public Outreach grant, and a postdoctoral fellowship from the Science Education Center at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) of the Caltech. Hyunju’s research has focused on teacher learning of technology professional development, student learning of science, and astronomy education.

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Hyunju earned her doctoral degree in science education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. And, she received a MS in astronomy from Seoul National University, and a BS in physics with a science teaching certificate from Ewha Womans University in South Korea. Hyunju had previously worked for STEM education programs, taught students, and translated children’s science books. Hyunju likes to travel, likes to look at the night sky, and to spend time with her kids.