Rhonda Struminger

Struminger’s research agenda surrounds education and how science education specifically is communicated to non-scientists. Whether through outreach activities at field stations, serious leisure activities, or by scientists who recognize they have a responsibility to educate the public, educating the public (or not) can have an impact on government policies. Current research projects focus on education policies, informal STEM curricula, human and social capital development, and the relationship between science and democracy. Struminger has taught courses on political systems of Latin America, executive leadership, and project managing the development of geographic information systems and remote sensing. Papers in development or submitted for publication address outreach activities to the public at field stations, how education policy can help keep students in school, how leisure activities can promote science learning, and how activist scientists and their allies at the marches for science understand their role in a democratic society.