Dr. Julie Schell (HPSE EDD 2009) has been promoted to the position of Assistant Vice Provost of Academic Technology at the University of Texas at Austin. She will also continue her work in UT's College of Fine Arts serving as Executive Director for Instructional Continuity, Innovation, and Accreditation. Julie brings 11 years of experience at the University of Texas. This role will draw heavily on her expertise in design thinking, pedagogy, and technology to help the university coordinate decisions around hardware and software that will be used in the university's instructional mission. She will help to coordinate efforts around the evaluation of new technologies as well as decisions about the continued support of technologies already being used on campus.

As an HPSE doctoral student, Julie specialized in the study of teaching, learning, and professorial careers. She was honored with the Outstanding Dissertation Award for her research on STEM professors' teaching from Division J of the American Educational Research Association.