Megan Powell Cuzzolino

Megan Cuzzolino is a researcher and educator with expertise in cognition and development, instructional design, and public engagement with science. She is the Project Director of the Next Level Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and continues to collaborate with the Causal Learning (CLiC) lab. 

Her primary research focus is on the emotion of awe and its relationship to learning and motivation in classroom and workplace contexts. Previously, Megan was an elementary and middle school science teacher, a Science Education Analyst at the National Science Foundation, and a research assistant for a number of projects in the lab focused on complex causal learning. She holds an Ed.D. and an Ed.M. in Human Development from HGSE and an A.B. in Psychology from Harvard College.