Melissa Eblen-Zayas

Melissa Eblen-Zayas has been a professor of physics at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota since 2005. As an experimental condensed matter physicist, she is dedicated to undergraduate research, innovation in the laboratory curriculum, and creating science classrooms that support the learning of all students. At Carleton, she has served as director of the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching, Department Chair, director of the Carleton Undergraduate Bridge Experience, and coordinator of the Summer Science Fellows Program, and much of her work has been at the intersection of faculty development and student success initiatives. Melissa has been active in the American Association of Physics Teachers, serving on the Committee on Laboratories and the Committee on Graduate Education as well as the executive board of the Minnesota AAPT section, and the American Physical Society, serving on the Forum on Education Executive Committee, the Committee on Education, and the EP3 Editorial Board. Melissa has also been involved in the leadership of several educational development projects through consortial arrangements, including an Associated Colleges of the Midwest Teaching Fellows Program and the Liberal Arts Collaborative for Digital Innovation QLAB project.