• Undergraduate Research Forum Award Winner, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), March 2022.

• Undergraduate Research Award, Binghamton University, Feb 2022.

• Trinity Memorial Research Grant, Center for Technology and Innovation, Feb 2022.

• “The Trap of Expertise.” Chit Chat Club at The Bakery Atlanta, Mar 2025.

• “Creativity Assessment in the Game-Based Learning Environment: A Review of Recent Research.” American Psychological Association (APA), Aug 2023; American Educational Research Association (AERA), Apr 2024.

• “Developing Habits of Mind through Family Engineering at Home.” 30th Annual Edgar W. Couper Lecture at College for Community & Public Affairs (CCPA), May 2022; American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Jun 2023.

• “Creative Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Research Days at Binghamton University, May 2021; Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) at Johns Hopkins University, Mar 2022; National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Apr 2022.

• “Medical Innovations that Combat COVID-19 in the Southern Tier.” Center for Technology and Innovation at TechWorks!, Feb 2022.

Simpson, A., Tan, J., Penney, L., Anderson, A., & Maltese, A. Feeling through failure: The role of epistemic empathy in the professional growth of museum educators. Manuscript in review.

Tan, J., Simpson, A., Knox, P., Werfelli, S., & Maltese, A. (2023). Developing habits of mind through family engineering at home. American Society for Engineering Education. https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--43081

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• Georgia Institute for Technology