+ External Activities

 Wrote an article with Carl Kurlander for The Conversation titled Female physicists aren't represented in the media-and this lack of representation hurts the physics field. This article was republished in Scientific American and PBS Newshour which was also featured in Rosalind Franklin Society Newsletter.

"Elected Vice-President (2018-2019), President-Elect (2019-2020), President (also see here) (2020-2021) and Past-President (2021-2022) of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)", 2018-2022. Here is a message during COVID-19. Here is my holiday greetings.

 "Want to promote diversity in science? Offer better support", C. Singh, Nature, Career Column, March 9 2022

"The Quantum Computer Revolution Must Include Women", Scientific American,  Jan., 2021.

"Article for the American Physical Society (APS) newsletter APS News Back Page focusing on Inclusive Mentoring: The mindset of an effective mentor", 2021. To read the article, please click here.

"Member of the working group developing Key Concepts for Quantum Information Science Learners" sponsored by the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Science Foundation, 2020. For more information, click here. Here is a link to the Expanded Key Concepts for Quantum Information Science https://q12education.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2024-07-19-FINAL-FULL-LINKED-Expanded-QIS-Key-Concepts.pdf

"Panelist, National Academy of Sciences Decadal survey of biological physics", 2020.

"Panelist, Q-Work Kick-off conference sponsored by the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Science Foundation, 2020.

"Article for the American Physical Society (APS) newsletter APS News Back Page focusing on remote instruction", 2020 (this article was featured on the APS landing webpage for five months). To read the article, please click here.

"Program Chair, AAPT Summer meeting", Provo Utah, 2019.To find out more, click here or here.

"Program Chair, AAPT Winter meeting", Houston, Texas, 2019. To find out more, click here.

" Local PI from Pitt, Sloan Equity and Inclusion in STEM Introductory Courses (SEISMIC)", A Collaboration of 10 large research universities in the US, 2019-2023 (five years). Please click here to see Pitt Week of SEISMIC events in 2023.

"One of the three editors of the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Women in Physics, Birmingham, UK", AIP Proceedings, vol. 2109, 2019. 

"Article for the American Physical Society (APS) newsletter APS News Back Page focusing on equity and inclusion in physics", 2019. To read the article, please click here.

"Co-organizer, Conference for all of the US delegation members to the past six International Conferences on Women in Physics", Provo, UT, 2019.

"One of the two team Leaders of the US delegation to the 2017 International Conference on Women in Physics (ICWIP)" Birmingham, UK, (program and planning extended from 2016-2019). Click here and here for information.

"Vice-chair (2017-2018) and Member (2016-2017) of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Committee on Women in Physics"

"Member, Organizing/Steering Committee, Joint conference on Graduate Education in Physics  and Bridge Program", American Center for Physics, One Physics Ellipse, MD 2017. 

"Article for the American Physical Society (APS) newsletter APS News Back Page focusing on diversity in physics", 2016. To read the article, please click here.

"Member of the US delegation to the 5th International conference on Women in Physics (ICWIP)", Waterloo, Canada (2014). To find out more, click here. To read a reflection published in APS News Back Page, click here.

 "Elected Vice-chair (2009-2010), Chair-elect (2010-2011), Chair (2011-2012) and Past-Chair (2012-2013) of the American Physical Society Forum on Education (APS-FEd) ", 2009-2013.To access "From the Chair" in the Summer, Fall, and Spring newsletters please click here: Summer,  Fall, Spring

"Chair, Editorial Board, Physical Review Special Topics: Physics Education Research", 2010-2013. To find out more, click here.

"Chair, Second conference on Graduate Education in Physics ", American Center for Physics, One Physics Ellipse, MD 2013. Co-author of the report on the second conference on Graduate Education in Physics", 2013. To access the report, click here

"Elected Co-chair for the Gordon conference on Physics Research and Education: Experimental Research and Labs in Physics Education", South Hadley, MA, 2010. To access the website, click here

"Co-chair of the first conference on the Future of Materials Science and Engineering Education which brought together physicists, chemists and engineers (from various engineering departments) to discuss the challenges and opportunities in educating students about materials science and engineering, Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, ", Arlington, VA, 2008.    Co-author of the report of the first conference on the Future of Materials Science and Engineering Education", 2009. To access the report, click here

"Elected Co-vice chair for the Gordon conference on Physics Research and Education: Computation and Computer-based Physics", Smithfield, RI, 2008. To access the website click here 

"Co-organizer of the first conference on Graduate Education in Physics sponsored by the APS and AAPT titled: Graduate Education in Physics: Which Way Forward?", American Center for Physics, One Physics Ellipse, MD, 2008.Co-author of the report of the first conference on Graduate Education in Physics: Which Way Forward?", 2008. To access the report, click here

"Co-organizer of the Physics Education Research Conference: Cognitive Science and Physics Education Research ", Greensboro, NC, 2007. To see the program click here

"Co-organizer of the Physics Education Research Conference: Discipline-based Education Research in Other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Disciplines", Syracuse, NY, 2006. To see the program click here

Workshop leader for many workshops related to "Research-based tools for helping students learn quantum mechanics" at APS March meetings (with Belloni and Christian), regional APS meetings, AAPT meetings, the New Physics Faculty Workshops at the American Center for Physics.

Workshop leader for many workshops (more than 10 workshops) on  cognitive research at many National Summer AAPT meetings and at the PhysTEC Conference.

Workshop leader for workshops on "Strategies to help women succeed in physics related professions" at National Summer AAPT meetings since 2010 and "Helping women succeed in physics" at the International Conference on Women in Physics, Waterloo, Canada, 2014 (this actual title of the workshop is different from that in the conference program). 

"Executive member of the American Physical Society Committee on Education (APS-COE)", 2006-2008, 2010-2012 (each time for a three year period).

"Invited presentations at the APS March and APS April meetings as well as sectional APS meetings, National and Regional AAPT meetings, Physics and Chemistry Gordon Conferences, Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE), Society for the Advancement Biology Education Research (SABER) etc. "

"Chair (2014-2015), vice-chair (2013-2014) and Member (2012-2015) of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Committee on International Physics Education"

"Chair (2009-2011) and Member (2009-2012) of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Committee on Graduate Education." To find out more, click here

"Chair, Nominating Committee of the American Physical Society Forum on Education, (2009-2010). "

"Chair, Program Committee of the American Physical Society Forum on Education for both the March and April meetings, (2010-2011)." To see the program click here

"Chair, Fellowship Committee of the American Physical Society Forum on Education, (2011-2012). "

"Co-editor, The Proceedings of the Physics Education Research Conference, Ann Arbor, MI ", 2009.To access the proceedings, click here

"Co-editor, APS Forum on Education (FEd) Newsletter ", Fall 2009.To access the APS FEd Newsletter, click here

"Guest Co-editor, American Journal of Physics (AJP), Theme issue on Gordon Conference on Physics Research and Education,", May 2010. To find out more, click here. 

"Co-editor, The Proceedings of the Physics Education Research Conference, Portland, OR ", 2010. To access the proceedings, click here

"Co-editor, APS Forum on Education (FEd) Newsletter ", Fall 2010. To access the APS FEd Newsletter, click here

"Co-editor, The Proceedings of the Physics Education Research Conference, Omaha, NE ", 2011.To access the proceedings, click here

"Member, Site visit team to evaluate NSF Science and Technology Center (STC) proposal at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2009. "

"Member, Site visit team to evaluate NSF Science and Technology Center at the Case Western Reserve University, 2009, 2010, 2015. "

"Member of the American Association of Physics Teachers Special Projects and Philanthropy Committee (2015-2017)."

"Member of the American Association of Physics Teachers Jossem International Education fund Committee (2014-2016), "

"Member of the American Association of Physics Teachers Women in Physics Committee (2016-2019)."

"Member of the American Physical Society Forum on Education Fellowship Committee (2016)."

"Member of the American Physical Society Forum on Education Nominating Committee (2016)."

"Member of the Steering/Organizing Committee of the APS Graduate Education and Bridge Program Conference, (2016-2017)."

"External Consultant/Member of the Advisory Board, NSF projects at various institutions: University of Maryland, MIT, University of Chicago etc. "

"More than 450 invited talks, panels and workshops at conferences, colloquia and seminars since 2000."