Valerie Otero is a professor of science education at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her talk was titled "The Learning Assistant Model as a Catalyst for Instructional Improvement and Institutional Change."
Matthew Kloser is an Associate Professor and Fellow at the Institute for Educational Initiatives and the founding director of the Center for STEM Education at the University of Notre Dame. His talk was titled "Is Biology Education Evolving? Critiquing Three Cases of High School and Undergraduate Biology Education Reform."
Tammy Long is an Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Biology at MSU. Bethany Gettings is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Plant Biology and an NRT-IMPACTS fellow at MSU. Their presentation was titled "Stuck in the Middle with You"