Program Director

Kalmanovitz 259

Sarah Hillenbrand is a cognitive neuroscientist and an educator. She earned her PhD in neuroscience at UC Berkeley, using functional magnetic resonance imaging to study human motor learning. From there, she moved on to teach courses in neuroscience, general scientific method, science writing, and storytelling at Stanford University in the Thinking Matters program and the Program in Writing and Rhetoric. More recently, she has taught courses on psychology, social justice, media literacy, and...

Education:
  • Alliant International University, Preliminary Single Subject Teaching Credential in Social Science, 2021
  • UC Berkeley, PhD in Neuroscience, 2015
  • Kenyon College, BA in Neuroscience, Philosophy, and...
Expertise:
  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Human motor learning
  • Science communication
  • Pedagogy

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