Center for Science Teaching and Learning Faculty

Name &Title

Credentials

Focus

At NAU

Julie Gess-Newsome, Ph.D., Professor, Director of the Center for Science Teaching and Learning

Julie.Gess-Newsome@nau.edu

(B.A., Northland College; M.A., University of Northern Colorado; Ph.D., Oregon State University 1992)

Science education, teacher cognition, curriculum and instruction, professional development

NAU 2000

Barbara Austin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Barbara.Austin@nau.edu

(B.S., University of Arizona 1992; Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin 2004)

Science Education, teacher growth and development, equity, teacher evaluation

NAU 2006

Jennifer M. Claesgens, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

(B.A. Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley 2007)

Science education, student cognition and assessment, chemistry curriculum development

NAU 2009

Sharon F. Cardenas, M.S., Assistant Clinical Professor

Sharon.Cardenas.nau.edu

(B.S. University of Texas at Austin; M.S., University of Texas at Brownsville 1999)

Science education

NAU 2008

Mark C. James, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Mark.James@nau.edu

(B.S., M.S., University of Missouri–St. Louis; Ph.D., Kansas State University 2003)

Physics education, analogy-making as cognition, the nature of science, constructivism

NAU 2003

David S. Thompson, M.Ed., Assistant Clinical Professor

David.Thompson@nau.edu

(B.S., M.Ed., Northern Arizona University 1994)

Science education

NAU 2009

Catherine Ueckert, Ph.D., Associate Professor

Catherine.Ueckert@nau.edu

(B.S., Midland Lutheran College; M.S., University of Nebraska–Omaha; Ph.D., University of Nebraska–Lincoln 1994)

Biology education, curriculum and instruction, science education standards

NAU 1995

Deborah Anne Wolf, M.Ed., Assistant Clinical Professor

Deborah.Wolf@nau.edu

(B.A., B.A., M.A., Northern Arizona University 1978)

Mathematics education, special education

NAU 2009