Meet the Cooper Group
Dr. Melanie Cooper
Lappan-Phillips Professor of Science Education
Professor of Chemistry
Email: mmc@chemistry.msu.edu
Office: Chemistry 216
Office phone: 517-355-9715 x 197
B.S., 1975, Univ. of Manchester, England
M.S., 1976, Univ. of Manchester, England
Ph.D., 1978, Univ. of Manchester, England
Melanie Cooper holds a joint appointment in the departments of Chemistry, Teacher Education and the CREATE for STEM Institute. Dr. Cooper conducted postdoctoral work in organic chemistry before moving to a focus on chemistry education research. Her current research focus is the development and assessment of evidence-based curricula in order to improve the teaching and learning of chemistry within large-enrollment undergraduate chemistry courses. Read more about her research description in the pdf below.
Cooper Group Members and Alumni
Postdoctoral Researchers
Graduate Students
Sewwandi Abeywardana
abeyward@chemistry.msu.edu
- M.S. California State University Long Beach, 2015
- B.S. Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, Sri Lanka, 2009
Amanda Becker
becke234@msu.edu
- B.A. Bates College, 2022
Tisetso Mosala
mosalati@msu.edu
- Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Michigan State University, 2024-25
- M.Sc. (Chemistry) University of Pretoria, 2019
- B.Sec.Ed. (Science) University of Pretoria, 2017
Veeda Scammahorn
scammaho@msu.edu
- B.S. Ball State University, 2021
Kriti Seth
sethkrit@msu.edu
- M.S. Penn State University, 2019
- M.Sc. Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, 2015
- B.Sc. University of Delhi, 2013
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Gauge Lambeth
lambeth2@msu.edu
- Kinesiology Major
- Michigan State University
Alec Steimel
steimela@msu.edu
- Physiology Major
- Michigan State University
