The U.S. National Science Foundation STEM Education Directorate Distinguished Lecture Series brings together prominent figures from the scientific, educational and policy communities to discuss crucial issues in STEM education.
These lectures provide a platform for experts to showcase innovative research, transformative practices and forward-looking strategies that are influencing the future of STEM education. Through promoting discussion and collaboration, the series aims to inspire new approaches and improve the influence of STEM learning on diverse learners nationwide.
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2024 lectures
Broadening Participation in Computing by Identifying and Removing Institutional Barriers, and by Creating New Pathways to the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D., and the Generalization of this work to other areas of STEM
Carla Brodley, founding executive director at the Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC)
2023 lectures
Building on Brilliance: Models and Frameworks of Black Male STEM Success Across the P-20 Pipeline
Fred A. Bonner II, Prairie View A&M University
An Emerging Kuhnian Shift: Possibilities of Emerging Syntheses Across Sciences of Human Learning and Development to Address Inequities in Opportunity to Learn
Carol D. Lee, Edwina S. Tarry professor emerita, Northwestern University
Reimagining the Geography of Opportunity: Beyond the Perils of Parallel Play in STEM Policy
William F. Tate IV, president of Louisiana State University
Catalyzing a Creative Learning Movement
Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Papert professor of learning research, MIT Media Lab