Work with thought leaders and academic experts from University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

My work is primarily focused on how teachers learn about and understand the content they teach. My work has been primarily with upper elementary and middle school teachers in the areas of mathematics and computational thinking. I got into this field because of my interest in educational technology and in school reform. My work has focused on investigating how teachers understand the content they teach, how to design effective professional development to support them, and how to assess their learning. All of this is with an eye toward how students learn and how we can build better schools to support learning. I am also a certified running coach (UESCA) and personal trainer (NASM) with a particular interest in women's physiology as it relates to running -- particularly in the menopausal and perimenopausal phases. I am interested in working on projects that are focused on improving education - particularly math education, but also education more broadly. I am also interested in projects that relate to my interest in women running.

Dr. Aminda O’Hare is the Director of Neuroscience and an associate professor of Psychological Science at Weber State University in Ogden, UT. She specializes in teaching topics in affective and cognitive neuroscience both in the classroom and in her research lab. The CAPES Lab (Cognitive and Affective Psychophysiology and Experimental Science Lab) is particularly interested in how training in mindfulness practices alters emotion-cognition interactions in the brain. Aminda is an advocate for incorporating practices of wellbeing and healthy habits of mind into higher education for all participants in campus communities (i.e., students, staff, faculty). Aminda loves the outdoors, being in the mountains, spending time with her husband, and being with her dogs and cats.