People


 * __People involved in HOST__**
 * Beth Marchant (BM) - Director of the Notre Dame QuarkNet Center ([|NDQC]), a national and local program to work with high school physics teachers to learn more about particle physics and guided inquiry in the classroom


 * Karen Morris (KM) - Current AP Project Manager working to expand the capacity for AP math, science and English in Indiana. I have funding for 4 AP Summer Institutes - teachers interested in chemistry, biology, English Literature or PreAP - vertical teaming in science can attend free!! Contact me at: kmorris@nd.edu. I also run the Northern Indiana Regional Science and Engineering Fair ([|NIRSEF], annually every March). I also organize and host the Expanding Your Horizons in Science and Mathematics Career conference for middle school girls at Notre Dame (annually every April).


 * Tom Loughran (TL) - Professional Specialist, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame; Education Program Leader for [|I2U2], an NSF-sponsored program to leverage Grid cyberinfrastructure for the task of bringing science research opportunities to pre-college students and teachers; managing co-PI for the Notre Dame extended Research Community ([|NDeRC]), an NSF-sponsored program to bring graduate students in STEM fields into collaborative relationships with local STEM teachers and students in pre-college settings; I teach the [|Science Research course] at Saint Joseph's High School; I work to press web 2.0 collaboration technologies ([|wikis], blogs, forums, etc) into service of pre-college STEM education.