UO Principal, Co-Principal Investigators and Core Team
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Dr. Dean Livelybrooks Co-Director, UO STEM CORE Senior Instructor II with Tenure, UO Physics Department dlivelyb@uoregon.edu Research interests: Science education, community outreach, magnetotellurics, and dynamic margin model constraints. |
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Dr. Jenefer Husman Professor, Department of Education Studies UO College of Education jhusman@uoregon.edu Research interests: Educational psychology, how students imagine their futures and how their futures influence learning in the present, and support for under-served students in STEM fields, especially engineering. |
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Dr. Bryan Rebar Associate Director, UO STEM CORE brebar@uoregon.edu Research interest: Models of mentorship, research experiences, teacher-scientist partnerships, formal and informal STEM teaching and learning. |
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Dr. Stacey York OPIRC Role: Stacey oversees the professional development and mentorship component of OPIRC, supporting students’ pathways to industry and national lab careers. This includes connecting OPIRC associates and scholars with mentors from the KCGIP; bringing in guest industry panels to InternFest; and supporting scholars in the identification of research experiences (internships, undergraduate research, etc.). |
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Meridith Turnbull |
Community College Principal Investigators
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Dr. Lawrence (Mick) Davis Associate Professor, Department of Physical Science Umpqua Community College mick.davis@umpqua.edu Research interests: Learning analytics, physics education, open educational resources, open pedagogy, optical properties and applications of ordered and disordered metallic nanostructures. |
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Dr. Jessica Hopkins Senior Instructional Dean of Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Lane Community College hopkinsj@lanecc.edu Research interests: STEM education, diversity in STEM, curriculum design, and assessment. |
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Dr. Forrest Towne Associate Professor, Department of Science Central Oregon Community College ftowne@cocc.edu Research interests: Chemistry education, STEM education, open educational resources, and organic chemistry synthesis. |
UO Senior Personnel
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Dr. Scott Fisher OPIRC role: Provides academic advising to OPIRC students interested in pursuing a physics degree. |
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Dr. Cathy Wong Associate Professor UO Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry cwong3@uoregon.edu OPIRC Role: Provides academic advising to OPIRC students interested in pursuing a degree in chemistry and/or biochemistry. |
Program Evaluator
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Talbot Bielefeldt, MS Program Evaluator Clearwater Program Evaluation talbot@clearwatereval.com OPIRC Role: Advising the Leadership Team on effectiveness of programming, collaborative process, and progress toward goals. |