Lisa Bievenue

Biography

Lisa Bievenue, M.A., M.P.H., is Director of Informatics Programs in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She directs the cross-campus interdisciplinary Informatics minor and Ph.D. programs, the CU Community Fab Lab, and the Game Studies & Design minors (undergraduate and graduate) and is guiding the development of a new Master of Science in Game Development. Since 2000 most of her education research efforts have been directed toward research on making and design activities in middle school classrooms and project evaluation of education and outreach projects in computer and computational science.