John Stewart

John Stewart may be contacted at 235 White Hall, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, jcstewart1@mail.wvu.edu.

Gay Stewart

Gay Stewart may be contacted at 235 White Hall, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, gbstewart@mail.wvu.edu.

John Stewart (APS Fellow, AAPT Fellow) – Research interests: Coherence of physics knowledge, physics class function, student retention, student recruitment, inclusion, departmental transformation, and online learning. Site leader: WVU Physics Teacher Education Coalition site. Chair American Physical Society Forum on Education (2017). PI for the WVU Robert Noyce Scholarship Program and CPHYS Computational Physics Scholarship programs. PI for STEM-R, an National Science Foundation grant to study STEM retention in the first two years of college.

Gay Stewart (APS Fellow, AAPT Fellow) – Research interests: Physics teacher preparation, departmental transformation, high school physics education. Site co-director of WVUteach and founding director of the WVU Center for Excellence in STEM Education. Former President of the American Association of Physics Teachers and member of the APS Board of Directors. Co-chair of the NSF-supported AP physics redesign that launched Physics 1 and 2 which greatly expanded access of AP physics to underserved populations. Site leader of the University of Arkansas’ PhysTEC program. 2019 AAPT Oersted Medalist.