Category: CATALYST

Purdue CATALYST names Asunda as new executive director

The Center for Advancing the Teaching and Learning of STEM (CATALYST) named Paul Asunda as its new Executive Director. He succeeds Lynn Bryan, emerita professor of science and STEM education and emerita director of CATALYST, who retired in 2024. The...

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Purdue CATALYST hosts “Generational Advances through STEM Education” Jan. 16

The College of Education’s Center for Advancing the Teaching and Learning of STEM organized and hosted the tenth annual Indiana STEM Education Conference, “Generational Advances through STEM Education”, on January 16, 2025.

Bryan named PI on NSF grant to examine youth STEM learning

A College of Education faculty member is the principal investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF) DRK-12 grant, in collaboration with Morgan State University.

Purdue begins a pilot project in middle schools to teach abstract quantum concepts

The work of Purdue researchers Muhsin Menekse and Erica Carlson to bring quantum education to pre-college classrooms continues with a two-year, NSF-funded pilot project in select Indiana middle schools.

Not 1 but 2: CATALYST’s Bryan named as 2024 NARST Fellow and to Grand Universe Space Science Institute board

Lynn Bryan was named a 2024 Fellow of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) and appointed to the board of the new Grand Universe Space Science Institute.

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9th annual Indiana STEM Education Conference equips teachers

The ninth annual Indiana STEM Education Conference, “Advancing STEM with Students”, took place on Thursday, January 11 at Purdue University.