Director of The STEM Center of Excellence and Associate Professor in the Zucker School of Education working to build a pipeline in STEM through K-12 outreach, partnerships in the community and industry, and developing recruitment and retention at The Citadel.

Working with the University of Canberra's STEM Education Research Centre on their Early Learning STEM Australia (ELSA) project.

Project Director for the NCSU portion of the NSF grant entitlied FRABJOUS CS - Framing a Rigorous Approach to Beauty and Joy for Outreach to Underrepresented Students in Computing at Scale.

Help develop and review items for the 8th grade science and Biology test banks which will be used for review, benchmarks, and End-of-Grade exams (formerly ClassScape, now CBIB).

Research Associate and Project Manager of NSF ITEST entitled "STEM Teams:Promoting Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) career interest, skills, and knowledge through Strategic Teaming". This interdisciplinary study focuses on developing ways to promote and measure interest in and preparation for STEM majors and careers. High risk middle and high school students, their teachers, and administrators in rural North Carolina are the primary population the project team is studying, both in and out of school. The project focuses on informal mentoring relationships, the use of district-wide strategic teams, the role of teacher pedagogical discontentment, teacher changes to reform-based instructional strategies, and ways to support the integration of instructional technologies.