Gabriela Weaver Gabriela Weaver is Assistant Dean for Student Success Analytics and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She previously served as Vice Provost for Faculty Development, and director of the Institute for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development (TEFD). Prior to coming to UMass, she served on the faculty at Purdue University as professor of chemistry and science education and the Jerry and Rosie Semler Director of the Discovery Learning Research Center. In 2012, she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for distinguished contributions to transforming science education at the undergraduate level. In 2019, she was awarded a Fellowship with the American Council of Education, which she carried out at Boston University. She has been a co-author on two chemistry textbooks, the 2015 book Transforming Institutions: Undergraduate STEM Education for the 21st Century (and its 2021 partner volume), the 2020 book Engaging Undergraduate Students in Research at Scale, as well as numerous scholarly articles, book chapters, and reports of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM). From 2004-2012, she served as director of the NSF-funded multi-institutional project Center for Authentic Science Practice in Education (CASPiE), dedicated to involving first- and second-year undergraduate students in research experiences. Her research interests include educational practices that increase student success and the institutionalization of such practices through the transformation of cultures and processes in higher education. She earned a B.S. degree in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Colorado, Boulder.