Miranda Chen Musgrove, PhD
Outside of Goshen, you can find Miranda engaging with her local Catholic church, trying out new feed-a-crowd crockpot recipes, and striking up new adventures with her husband, Matthew, and three kiddos, Samuel, Anna, and Cecilia.
About Miranda
Miranda brings over 10 years of experience as an ecologist, science education researcher, adjunct faculty in biological sciences, and program evaluator. An active scholar, Miranda has published 15 manuscripts across two disciplines and presented her work nationally and internationally. Miranda was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where she earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s in Biology at York University. Finding her passion for education research, mentoring, and working with faculty and students, Miranda packed up and moved to the United States to work on her doctorate and post-doctoral research, investigating anxiety and coping, sense of belonging, self-efficacy, and networks among educators in higher education.
Miranda is currently a Senior Researcher at Goshen Education Consulting, where she takes all her science education research skills to evaluate STEM programs for federally funded initiatives. She loves working with clients to determine their program evaluation needs, collect and interpret data, and improve these programs to impact their community positively.
Publications
Presentations
​Musgrove, M. M. C., Ko, M. E., Schinske, J. N., & Corwin, L. A. (2024). Broadening Participation in Biology Education Research: A role for affinity groups in promoting social connectivity, self-efficacy, and belonging. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 23(1), ar8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.23-01-0004
Chen Musgrove, M. M., Nied, S., Cooley, A., Schinske, J.N., Crowin, L.A. (2022) Engaging with CC Bio INSITES: Experiences of barriers, supports, and belonging in community college faculty participating in biology education research. CBE-Life Science Education, 21(2), ar16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.21-09-0246
Chen Musgrove, M. M. and Schussler, E.E. (2022). The Ph.D. Panic: Examining the relationship between teaching anxiety, teaching self-efficacy, and coping among Biology graduate teaching assistants (GTAs). International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 5(SI), 65-107. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31756/jrsmte.114SI
Chen Musgrove, M., Genné-Bacon, E., Gray, K., Heim, A. B., Karippadath, A., Magalhães, R. M., Tripp, B., & Zelaya, A. J. (2022). Professional Development for Early Career DBER Scholars through In-Person and Virtual Career Panel Workshops. Journal of microbiology & biology education, 23(1), e00190-21. https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00190-21
Chen Musgrove, M. M., Cooley, A., Feiten, O., Petrie, K., and Schussler, E.E. (2021). To Cope or Not to Cope? Characterizing Biology GTA Coping with Teaching and Research Anxieties. CBE-Life Science Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.20-08-0175
Schussler, E.E., Weatherton, M., Chen Musgrove, M. M., Brigati, J.R., England, B.J. (2021). Student perceptions of instructor supportiveness: What characteristics make a difference? CBE-Life Science Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.20-10-0238
Limeri, L., Chen Musgrove, M. M., Henry, M., and Schussler, E.E. (2020). Leveraging psychosocial interventions to motivate instructor participation in teaching professional development. CBE-Life Science Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-11-0236
Dolan, E., Borrero, M., Callis-Duehl, K., Chen Musgrove, M. M., de Lima, J., Ero-Tolliver, I., Gerhart, L.G., Goodwin, E.C., Henry, M.A., Huot, B., Ko, M., Lee, M., Limeri, L.B., Peffer, M.E., Ramirez-Lugo, J.S., Sharp, S.M., Suarez, N.A. (2020). Undergraduate Biology Education Research at the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) – A meeting report. CBE-Life Science Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-09-0188
England, B.J., Brigati, J.R., Schussler, E.E., and Chen, M. M. (2019). Student Anxiety and Perception of Difficulty Impact Performance and Persistence in Introductory Biology Courses. CBE-Life Sciences Education, 18(2): 1-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.17-12-0284.
Van Nuland, M., Chen, M. M., England, B. (2019). Bringing plants and soils to life through a simple role-playing activity. The American Biology Teacher, 81(4): 287-290. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2019.81.4.287
Chen, M. M., Scott, S. M., and Stevens, J. D. (2018). Technology as a tool in teaching quantitative biology at the secondary and undergraduate levels: a review. Letters in Biomathematics, 5(1), 30-48. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23737867.2017.1413432
Chen, M. M., Lopez, L., Bhavsar, S. P., and Sharma, S. (2018). What’s hot about mercury? Examining the influence of climate on mercury levels in Ontario top predator fishes. Environmental Research, 162, 63-73. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2017.12.018
Van Zuiden, T.*, Chen, M. M.*, Stefanoff, S. Lopez, L. and Sharma, S. (2016). Projected impacts of climate change on three freshwater fishes and potential novel competitive interactions. Diversity and Distributions, 22: 603-614. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12422 * Joint first authors
Chen, M. (2015). Global stressors, regional impacts: How will climate change influence future cisco (Coregonus artedii) distributions in Ontario? Are sport fish mercury levels affected by climate? Master’s Thesis. York University, Toronto, Ontario. http://hdl.handle.net/10315/32649
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Miranda Chen Musgrove, M Ko, J Schinske, L Corwin. Connections matter? Examining the relationships between sense of belonging, self-efficacy, and social connectivity among Community College Faculty in Biology Education Research. 2022. National Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER), Hybrid Virtual and In-Person Conference. Oral presentation.
Miranda Chen Musgrove, S Nied, A Cooley, J Schinske, L Corwin. Experiences of supports, barriers, and belonging in Community College Faculty participating in Biology Education Research. 2021. National Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER), Virtual Conference. Oral presentation.
M Ko, Miranda Chen Musgrove, J Schinske, L Corwin. Investigating Professional Social Networks to Improve Research Productivity Among Community College Instructors. 2021. National Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER), Virtual Conference. Poster presentation.
A Cooley and Miranda Chen Musgrove. To cope or not to cope? Examining how Graduate Teaching Assistants cope with teaching and research anxieties. 2021. Innovative Teaching and Learning Conference, Knoxville, TN. Oral presentation.
E Schussler, M Weatherton, Miranda Chen Musgrove, J Brigati, B England. Student perceptions of supportive and non-supportive instructors: What characteristics make a difference? 2020. National Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER), Virtual Conference. Oral presentation.
K Petrie and Miranda Chen Musgrove. Dueling Anxieties: Are Biology graduate students
teaching and research anxieties the same? 2020. Innovative Teaching and Learning Conference, Knoxville, TN. Poster presentation.
A Cooley, O Feiten, and Miranda Chen Musgrove. Hoping for Coping: Investigating coping strategies in Biology Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) from 2016-2017. 2020. Innovative Teaching and Learning Conference, Knoxville, TN. Poster presentation.
Miranda Chen, E Schussler. To cope or not to cope? Examining how Graduate Teaching Assistants cope with teaching and research anxieties. 2019. National Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER), Minneapolis, MN. Oral presentation.
Miranda Chen, E Schussler. 2019. To cope or not to cope? Examining how Graduate Teaching Assistants cope with teaching and research anxieties. Gordon Research Seminar and Conference (GRS/GRC), Lewiston, Maine. Oral and poster presentation.
Miranda Chen, E Schussler. 2019. To cope or not to cope? Examining how Graduate Teaching Assistants cope with teaching and research anxieties. Teaching and Learning Innovation (TLI) 2019 Conference, Knoxville, TN. Poster presentation.
Miranda Chen and K Riley. 2018. Beyond Academia: How STEM PhD Students Prepare Themselves For A Non-academic Path. Conference for the Southern Association of Colleges and Employers (SoACE), Atlanta, Georgia. Round table presentation in collaboration with the Career Center.
Miranda Chen, E Schussler. 2018. Stuck in the middle again: Investigating teaching and research anxieties in biology graduate teaching assistants. National Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER), Minneapolis, MN. Oral presentation. Best presentation award.
Miranda Chen, E Schussler. 2018. The PhD Panic: Examining the drivers and impacts of graduate teaching assistant (GTA) teaching anxiety. March 1st. Women in STEM Symposium. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Poster presentation.
J Reid*, Miranda Chen*, P Carroll*, G Gardner*, E Schussler, G Marbach-Ad, K Miller, J Ridgway.
2017. A critical review of the literature on biology graduate teaching assistant professional development. Nov 9-12th. Biology Education Research Symposium from National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) Professional Development Conference. St. Louis, Missouri. Poster presentation.
* Joint first authors
Miranda Chen, E Schussler. 2017. The PhD Panic: Examining the drivers and impacts of graduate teaching assistant (GTA) teaching anxiety. July 21-23rd. Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER). The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN. Oral presentation.
Miranda Chen, E Schussler. 2017. The PhD Panic: Examining the factors and impacts of teaching anxiety in biology graduate students. July 9-14th. Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Undergraduate Biology Education Research. Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts. Poster presentation.
Miranda Chen, E Schussler. 2017. The PhD Panic: Examining the drivers and impacts of GTA teaching anxiety. May 18th. STEM Teaching and Learning Afternoon. The University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN. Poster presentation.
E Schussler, Miranda Chen. 2016. BioTAP: A National Network to Guide GTA Teaching Professional Development Programs. October. Teaching and Learning Innovation Symposium: Reimagining Teaching. The University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN. Poster presentation.
Miranda Chen, S Sharma. 2015. Panic at the Cisco: Predicting the effects of climate change on cisco distributions in Ontario. Nov 27th. Science@50 Biology Day. York University, Toronto, ON, Canada. Poster presentation. Best poster award.
Miranda Chen, S Sharma. 2015. Panic at the Cisco: Predicting the effects of climate change on cisco distributions in Ontario. Feb 26th-28th. American Fisheries Society Ontario Chapter (AFS-OC). Orillia, ON, Canada. Oral presentation. Best presentation award.
Miranda Chen, MT Van Zuiden, S Stefanoff, S Sharma. 2014. Fishmageddon: How will climate change influence the future distributions of three predatory fish species in Ontario? March 19. Association of Graduate Students in Biological Sciences (AGSBS). York University, Toronto, ON, Canada. Poster presentation. Best poster award.