Faculty Profiles

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

Olmstead, A. R., Gutmann, B., Ochoa-Madrid, E., Vasquez, A., Pike, C., & Barringer, D. F. (2023). How can we design instruction to support student reasoning about physicists’ ethical responsibilities in society? The Physics Teacher, 61(5), 343–350. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0087490

Abdurrahman, F., & Olmstead, A. R. (2021). Objectivity, culturelessness, and apoliticism: how cultural beliefs prevent the advancement of equity in astronomy graduate programs. https://doi.org/10.1119/perc.2021.pr.Abdurrahman

Sachmpazidi, D., Olmstead, A. R., Thompson, A. N., Henderson, C., & Beach, A. (2020). Team-based instructional change in undergraduate STEM: Characterizing effective faculty collaboration. International Journal of STEM Education, 8(15). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-021-00273-4

Gutmann, B. N., Ochoa-Madrid, E. K., & Olmstead, A. R. (2020). “I’m not that important”: Barriers and bolsters to student agency during conversations about the intersections of physics and ethics (pp. 191–197).

Ochoa-Madrid, E., Olmstead, A. R., & Gutmann, B. (2020). Characterizing physics students’ ethical reasoning after a unit on the development of the atomic bomb.

Barringer, D. F., Olmstead, A. R., & Maldonado, A. (2020). Benefits of a student-led astronomy club: Lessons to inform instructional design.

Olmstead, A. R., Beach, A., & Henderson, C. (2019). Supporting improvements to undergraduate STEM instruction: An emerging model for understanding instructional change teams. International Journal of STEM Education, 6(20).

Olmstead, A. R., & Turpen, C. (2019). “Curriculum swaps” as a pathway into a geographically-distributed instructional community. In Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings 2018.

Olmstead, A. R., Henderson, C., & Beach, A. (2018). Managing teams for instructional change: Understanding three types of diversity. In Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings 2017 (pp. 284–287).

Olmstead, A. R., & Turpen, C. (2017). Pedagogical sensemaking or “doing school”: In well-designed workshop sessions, facilitation makes the difference. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 13(2), 020123.

Olmstead, A. R., & Turpen, C. (2016). Assessing the interactivity and prescriptiveness of faculty professional development workshops: The real-time professional development observation tool. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 12(2), 020136.

Olmstead, A. R. (2016). An assessment of professional development for astronomy and physics faculty: Expanding our vision of how to support faculty’s learning about teaching.

Turpen, C., Olmstead, A. R., & Jardine, H. (2016). A case of physics faculty engaging in pedagogical sense-making. In Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings 2016 (pp. 356–359).

Olmstead, A. R., & Turpen, C. (2015). “I got in trouble”: A case study of faculty “doing school” during professional development. In Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings 2015 (pp. 243–246).

Olmstead, A. R., Rigby, J. R., Swinbank, M. M., & Veilleux, S. (2014). A magnified view of star formation at z=0.9 from two lensed galazies. Astronomical Journal, 148(65).

Agudo, Iv\’an, Marscher, A. P., Jorstad, S. G., Larionov, V. M., G\’omez, Jos\’e L, L\"ahteenm\"aki, Anne, … others. (2011). On the location of the $\gamma$-ray outburst emission in the BL lacertae object AO 0235+ 164 through observations across the electromagnetic spectrum. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 735(1), L10.

Marscher, A. P., Jorstad, S. G., Larionov, V. M., Aller, M. F., Aller, H. D., L\"ahteenm\"aki, Anne, … others. (2010). Probing the inner jet of the quasar PKS 1510--089 with multi-waveband monitoring during strong gamma-ray activity. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 710(2), L126.

Chatterjee, R., Marscher, A. P., Jorstad, S. G., Olmstead, A. R., McHardy, I. M., Aller, M. F., … others. (2009). Disk-jet connection in the radio galaxy 3C 120. The Astrophysical Journal, 704(2), 1689.

Bass, E., Oppenheim, M., Chau, J., & Olmstead, A. R. (2008). Improving the accuracy of meteoroid mass estimates from head echo deceleration. Earth, Moon, and Planets, 102(1–4), 379--382.

Marscher, A. P., Jorstad, S. G., D’Arcangelo, F. D., Smith, P. S., Williams, G. G., Larionov, V. M., … Ryle, W. T. (2008). The inner jet of an active galactic nucleus as revealed by a radio-to-gamma-ray outburst. Nature, 452(7190), 966–969. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06895