Our Team
Dr. Regina Toolin, Ph.D., is an Assistant
Professor of Science Education at the University of Vermont. Her
research focuses on constructivist models of teaching and learning
that promote science classrooms that are grounded in principles of
inquiry-based and project-based teaching and learning in urban and
rural schools. Her teaching interests include science curriculum,
instruction and assessment and diversity issues in science
education. She is Principal Investigator of the NSF: Robert Noyce Scholarship Program and the
Vermont Secondary Science Partnership and Co-PI for the NSF:
Satellites, Weather and Climate Program Grant currently underway at
UVM. Dr. Toolin serves as a member of the editorial board for the
Journal of Science Education and Technology and has published her
research pertaining to science teaching and learning in Science Education, the International
Journal of Science Education, The Science Teacher, and the Journal of Science Education and
Technology.
Email Dr. Toolin at Rtoolin@uvm.edu.
Dr. Rory Waterman, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the
University of Vermont. His Ph.D. is from the University of
Chicago and he did a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of
California, Berkeley. His area of expertise is within synthetic
inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, and catalysis.
Waterman received a Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science
Research Fellowship (2004-2007). He was awarded a prestigious
National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2008), a Research
Corporation Cottrell Scholar Award (2009), and a Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation Research Fellowship (2009). As co-Primary
Investigator Dr. Waterman is a and coordinates the
Summer Scholar Program of the NSF: Robert
Noyce Scholarship Program at the University of Vermont.
Dr. Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, Ph.D., is
an Associate Professor in the department of Geography at the
University of Vermont. Her Ph.D. is from
McGill University and her area of expertise is
within climate variability and change, historical climatology,
climate literacy, severe weather hazards, drought, remote sensing,
Geographic Information Science, New England, Brazil, Caribbean.
As an applied climatologist by training, Dr. Dupigny-Giroux's
research interests intersect a number of interdisciplinary fields
including hydroclimatic natural hazards and climate literacy as well
as
the use of remote sensing and GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
in
the fields of spatial climate and land-surface processes. Dr.
Dupigny-Giroux is a co-Princpial Investigator with the NSF: Robert Noyce Scholarship Program at
the University of Vermont.
After a decade teaching in science
classrooms in the northeast, Beth White is pursuing a Ph.D. in
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and is the Graduate
Teaching Fellow for the NSF: Robert
Noyce Scholarship Program at the University of Vermont. She is
currently studying classrooms where members participate in a true
democracy and curricula is exploration-based, interdisciplinary, and
co-led by students, experts, and educators alike and is working to
design research studies that will impact policy, teacher
education, and students in positive ways. She is particularly
dedicated to solving the crisis in STEM education, promoting women
in STEM, supporting educational practices that value student voice,
is strengthened by diversity, deliberately addresses equity, and is
grounded in community.