Author Archives: Alexandra Davatzes

I am teaching a new class, “Hidden Figures to Gamergate: Race and gender in science and technology.”  Interested in this topic?  Check out my podcast feed for the class:  https://lnns.co/-XoBQADSHJr

Dr. Alix Davatzes has won the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award for the 2019-2020 academic year!

ABSTRACT The Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier (FW-HTF) is one of 10 new Big Ideas for Future Investment announced by NSF. The FW-HTF cross-directorate program aims to respond to the challenges and opportunities of the changing landscape of … Continue reading →

Through a grant from NSF, a group of cognitive scientists, education researchers and geoscientists have come together to form the Geoscience Education Transdisciplinary Spatial Learning Network to develop mechanisms to improve student learning of difficult geoscience problems, particularly ones that … Continue reading →

Check out the new ad campaign for Temple: http://www.temple.edu/takecharge/ Then scroll down to see the Earth moving discoveries!

The Department of Earth and Environmental Science at Temple University seeks  motivated students who are interested in pursuing graduate studies in impact cratering and Precambrian geology. Support for one PhD student and one MS student is available starting Fall 2015 … Continue reading →

My paper on using impacts to look at crustal compositions is coming out in the July 2014 issue of Geology.  You can see the early release of it at: http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2014/05/21/G35614.1.abstract Figure 1