ABOUT US

Dr. K.C. Busch (kbusch@ncsu.edu) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of STEM Education in the College of Education and faculty in the Leadership in Public Science interdisciplinary cluster at North Carolina State University. Her research focuses on science learning in informal and formal contexts.

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Dr. Kathryn Stevenson (Kathryn_Stevenson@ncsu.edu) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management at NC State.  Her research centers around environmental education, including program evaluation and understanding factors that build environmental literacy.

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Dr. Lincoln Larson (lrlarson@ncsu.edu) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management in the College of Natural Resources at NC State. His conservation social science research focuses on promoting sustainable human-environment interactions (via environmental education and other mechanisms) and fostering healthy relationships between people, parks, and nature.

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Charles Yelton (charles.yelton@naturalsciences.org) When not spending time outdoors with his two children, Charles works to provide quality science education to citizens throughout North Carolina as the NC Museum of Natural Sciences’ Regional Network Chief. He currently oversees operations at the Museum’s Prairie Ridge Ecostation, Regional Branch locations in rural North Carolina, and the NC Science Museums Grant Program serving 56 museums throughout the State.

Darrell D. Stover (darrell.stover@naturalsciences.org) is Head of the NC Science Museums Grant Program at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. He also is on the faculty of the Interdisciplinary Studies department at North Carolina State University. He is a poet, cultural historian and science communicator who embraces both the sciences and humanities. He is a avid birder and naturalist with a license plate that reads “SCIPOET.”

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Lynn Chesnut (lcchesnu@ncsu.edu) is a doctoral student in Learning and Teaching in STEM. She is a graduate research assistant Dr. Busch’s lab. Her research interests concern diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in informal science education. She was a science teacher for nearly 20 years before returning to grad school. (she, her, hers)

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Aparajita Rajwade (amrajwad@ncsu.edu) is a doctoral student in Dr. Busch’s lab. Her research interests are understanding the impacts of informal Environmental Education on communities and especially children from underprivileged, disadvantaged communities. She is interested in learning to use different assessment methodologies to analyze these impacts.

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Regina Ayala Chavez (rayalac@ncsu.edu) is a doctoral student in Dr. Busch’s lab. Her topics of interest are the creation of meaningful knowledge and the design of programs within informal education about climate change for adults.

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Aimee Fraulo (abfraulo@ncsu.edu) is a doctoral student in the department of Teacher Education and Learning Sciences. Her research interests are incorporating outdoor and informal science experiences into elementary school classrooms and supporting teachers in how to use natural environments as learning spaces.

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