{"id":8,"date":"2025-04-01T12:23:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T19:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:06:28","slug":"plenary-speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/plenary-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Plenary speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We will have several plenary speakers, each who does work on quantitative reasoning in a different STEM discipline. We are working on finalizing the list of plenary speakers; please stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>Confirmed plenary speakers:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey Engle Richland,\u00a0<\/strong>University of California, Irvine (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.faculty.uci.edu\/profile\/?facultyId=6499\">faculty profile<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>Quantitative reasoning in math education<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-65\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/05\/Lindsey-Engle-Richland-profile-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Michael Loverude,\u00a0<\/strong>Cal State Fullerton (<a href=\"https:\/\/experts.fullerton.edu\/expert?SubjectID=162&amp;ExpertID=84\">faculty profile<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/physics.fullerton.edu\/_resources\/images\/fulltime-faculty\/michael-loverude.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Loverude\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Farshid Safi,\u00a0<\/strong>University of Central Florida (<a href=\"https:\/\/ccie.ucf.edu\/person\/farshid-safi\/)\">faculty profile<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/amte.net\/\">AMTE<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>Quantitative reasoning in math education<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-100\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/09\/Farshid-Safi-Headshot_.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/09\/Farshid-Safi-Headshot_.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/09\/Farshid-Safi-Headshot_-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/09\/Farshid-Safi-Headshot_-819x1024.jpeg 819w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/09\/Farshid-Safi-Headshot_-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/09\/Farshid-Safi-Headshot_-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>D<\/strong><strong>r. Anita Schuchardt<\/strong><strong>, <\/strong>University of Minnesota (<a href=\"https:\/\/cbs.umn.edu\/directory\/anita-schuchardt\">faculty profile<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>Quantitative reasoning in biology education<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-61\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/04\/anitaS.jpg\" alt=\"Anita Schuchardt profile photo\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/04\/anitaS.jpg 280w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/04\/anitaS-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Marcy Towns<\/strong>, Purdue University (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chem.purdue.edu\/towns\/People.html\">faculty profile<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>Quantitative reasoning in chemistry education<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-67\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/05\/Marcy-Towns-profile-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/05\/Marcy-Towns-profile-photo.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/05\/Marcy-Towns-profile-photo-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will have several plenary speakers, each who does work on quantitative reasoning in a different STEM discipline. We are working on finalizing the list of plenary speakers; please stay tuned! Confirmed plenary speakers: Dr. Lindsey Engle Richland,\u00a0University of California, Irvine (faculty profile) Quantitative reasoning in math education &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/qrstemeducationconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}