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Meet Kathryn McEachern

Meet Kathryn McEachern

Dr. Kathryn McEachern is a Research Ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, at the Channel Islands Field Station. Like much of the arid southwest, the California Channel Islands were used as ranches from about 1800 to the 1950’s...
Meet Nancy Stauch

Meet Nancy Stauch

Nancy Stauch is a Lecturer in the Liberal Studies department, Coordinator of the Secondary Education Program, and Science Education Advisor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Nancy teaches courses that support science education, including...
Meet Christopher Orban

Meet Christopher Orban

Background on Dr. Orban: “Ever since high school I was fascinated by the power of computers to gain insight into scientific problems. As an undergrad and a grad student I dove into computational astrophysics, studying how galaxies form in an expanding universe....
Meet Edgar Massingale

Meet Edgar Massingale

“My experience at STAR highlighted the need for collective learning and communication.”     Q: What subject do you teach and where?A: I teach 9th grade Physics at Sandy High School in Sandy, Oregon. Q: How long have you been a full-time...
Meet DaNel Hogan

Meet DaNel Hogan

DaNel Hogan has been a professional STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) educator for about 20 years. She started her career as a middle and high school physics teacher and then served two years as an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow...