Megan Powell Cuzzolino

Megan Cuzzolino is the Project Director for the Next Level Lab, and a researcher and educator with expertise in cognition and development, instructional design, and public engagement with science. As a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Megan's dissertation research focused on the emotion of awe and its role in scientific learning and discovery, and she contributed to several other research endeavors at Project Zero, including the Causal Learning and EcoLearn projects. Prior to her graduate work, Megan was an elementary and middle school science teacher, as well as a Science Education Analyst at the National Science Foundation. She holds an Ed.D. and an Ed.M. in Human Development from HGSE and an A.B. in Psychology from Harvard College.