Laird Kramer

Laird Kramer is a Professor of Physics and served as the Founding Director of the STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International University. His work focuses on facilitating institutional change through implementation of, and research on, evidence-based educational practices to establish equitable outcomes for all students. His work began in transforming the undergraduate physics experience at FIU, creating more well-prepared majors through the implementation Modeling Instruction-based studio physics courses, establishment of student-centric methodologies, and establishment of a high school/university research and learning community. He launched FIU’s Learning Assistant Program in 2008 that grew into an institutional priority and now impacts over 12,000 student enrollments across all STEM departments each semester. These and other efforts led to establishing the STEM Transformation Institute that situates FIU as a STEM education laboratory for research, development and dissemination of inclusive models that will transform institutional educational practices in order to meet the national need for qualified STEM professionals.