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Texas State University

Dr. Heather Galloway

  • Dean, Honors College
  • Professor - Physics
  • LAMP 407
  • tel:+15122452266
  • hg02@txstate.edu
Portrait of Dr. Heather Galloway
  • Grants
  • Scholarly/Creative work
  • Awards
  • Service

Featured grants

  • Galloway, Heather C (Co-Principal), Gutierrez, C (Co-Principal). Advanced Electronics Interface and Computer Simulation Labs: Preparing Students for High-tech Careers, Texas State University – computer funds, $36461. (Funded: 1999). Grant.
  • Galloway, Heather C. Unsolicited Research Award –Galloway and C. Gutierrez co-PIs (GFT), Motorola, $25000. (Funded: 1998). Grant.
  • Galloway, Heather C, Close, Eleanor W, Olmstead, Alice R, Luxford, Cynthia J, Feng, Li. Building Capacity: Creating Faculty-Student Communities for Culturally Relevant Institutional Change, National Science Foundation Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), Federal, $2499933. (Submitted: March 6, 2019, Funded: October 1, 2019 - September 30, 2025). Grant.
  • Galloway, Heather C (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %33, Dickinson, Gail (Principal), Percent Contribution: %34, Lemke, Maureen, Percent Contribution: %33. Transforming teaching methodologies at Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) and Svay Rieng University (SRU) from lecture to inquiry, Royal University of PhnomPenh, $150000. (Funded: June 1, 2011 - September 1, 2011). Grant.
  • Galloway, Heather C (Principal). The Gallery of Common Experience, National Collegiate Honors Council Portz Grant, $1000. (Funded: September 2007 - May 2008). Grant.
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Featured scholarly/creative works

  • Feng, L., Close, E. W., Luxford, C. J., Pierson, J. A., Olmstead, A., Shim, J., … Galloway, H. C. (2025). Transforming Undergraduate STEM Education: The Learning Assistant Model and Student Retention and Graduation Rates. Research in Higher Education, 66(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-024-09823-5
  • Feng, L., Close, E. W., Luxford, C. J., Pierson, J. A., Olmstead, A. R., Shim, J., … Galloway, H. C. (2024). Transforming Undergraduate STEM Education: The Learning Assistant Model and Student Retention and Graduation Rates. Research in Higher Education, 66(4). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-024-09823-5
  • Feng, L., Close, E. W., Luxford, C. J., Pierson, J. A., Olmstead, A. R., Shim, J., … Galloway, H. C. (2024). Transforming Undergraduate STEM Education: The Learning Assistant Model and Student Retention and Graduation Rates. Research in Higher Education, 66(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-024-09823-5
  • Galloway, H. C., Benitez, J. J., Heredia-Guerrero, J. A., & San Miguel, M. A. (2017). Packing Defects in Fatty Amine Self-Assembled Monolayers on Mica as Revealed from AFM Techniques. Physical Chemistry B, 493–499. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b03603
  • Galloway, H. C. (2013). Elementary Physics I, Guide to Syllabus Change. In S. Mayo & P. J. Larke (Eds.), Integrating Multiculturalism into the Curriculum: From the Liberal Arts to the Sciences. Peter Lang Publishers.
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Featured awards

  • Award / Honor Nominee: Presidential Award for Teaching, College of Science. 2005
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Presidential Award for Teaching, College of Science. 2001
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Presidential Award for Scholarly/Creative Activity, College of Science. 2001
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Committee on Careers and Professional Development of the American Physical Society. 2000
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Presidential Award for Service, College of Science. 2000

Featured service activities

  1. Other

    The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi at Texas State University

    2018 - Present
  2. Member

    Campus Information Resource Advisor Council

    2013 - Present
  3. Member

    Institutional Effectiveness Council

    2013 - Present
  4. Other

    National Science Foundation

    2000 - Present
  5. Other

    The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi at Texas State University

    2013 - 2018
  6. Member

    Scholarship Committee

    2013 - 2017
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