Susan O'Hara

Susan O’Hara’s research focuses on professional development for teachers, building and sustaining intellectually challenging learning communities, and approaches to providing challenging and meaningful science, math, and technology-enhanced curricula for linguistically and culturally diverse populations. Susan is currently Executive Director for the UC Davis Center for Cooperative Research and Extension Services for Schools (CRESS Center). Her most recent work involves the impact of hypermedia authoring on academic-vocabulary development among English-language learners. Susan received a BA in Mathematics and Physics from University College in Dublin, Ireland, an MA in Applied Mathematics with an emphasis in Statistics from the University of Southern California, and a PhD in Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education from the University of California at Davis.