Episode 3: Catherine Crouch (Swarthmore College)

Professor Crouch earned her PhD from Harvard University where she studied electrical transport in nanofabricated quantum dots.  Her dual postdoctoral fellowship (also at Harvard) concerned material physics and physics education.  She is Professor of Physics at Swarthmore College, where she has taught since 2003.  Professor Crouch has published more than twenty peer-reviewed experimental physics research articles.  She has involved dozens of Swarthmore undergraduate students in her experimental work.  Professor Crouch is the faculty director of Swarthmore's Collaborative STEM Inclusive Excellence initiative to expand support and resources for students in the sciences during the regular academic year.  She has published more than twelve peer-reviewed papers examining the effectiveness of methods for teaching introductory physics, and her work developing and evaluating introductory physics for life sciences students is currently supported by two National Science Foundation grants.  

Professor Crouch was elected to the Chair succession of the American Physical Society's Forum on Education for 2019-22.