Initiative Leadership

Cynthia J. Atman

Director, Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education and Professor, Human Centered Design and Engineering, University of Washington

Jim Borgford-Parnell

Assistant Director, Center for Engineering Teaching and Learning, University of Washington

David M. Bressoud

DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics, Macalester College

Peter J. Bruns

Professor of Genetics Emeritus, Cornell University and Vice President for Grants and Special Programs (retired), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

Linda Columbus

Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Cottrell Scholar

Edward J. Coyle

Arbutus Chair and Director of the Arbutus Center for the Integration of Research Education, Georgia Institute of Technology

James S. Fairweather

AAU STEM Initiative Co-Investigator, and Professor Emeritus, Higher, Adult and Lifelong Education, Michigan State University 

Noah Finkelstein

Associate Professor of Physics Education Research, Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder

S. James Gates, Jr.

John S. Toll Professor of Physics and Director, Center for String and Particle Theory, University of Maryland, College Park

Sylvia Hurtado

Professor and Director of the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI), Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles

Kathy Mann Koepke

Director of Mathematics and Science Cognition and Learning, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

G. Peter Lepage

Professor of Physics, Cornell University

Haynes R. Miller

Professor of Mathematics and Associate Department Head, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Bassam Z. Shakhashiri

Professor of Chemistry, William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and 2012 President, American Chemical Society

Linda L. Slakey

Senior Advisor, AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative, and former Director, Division of Undergraduate Education, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Candace Thille

Director of Open Learning Initiative (OLI); Assistant Professor of Education; and Senior Research Fellow, Office of the Vice Provost for Online Learning, Stanford University