Jennifer Blue

As Associate Dean

Jennifer Blue earned her M.S. in physics and Ph.D. in science education from the University of Minnesota in 1997. She taught high school before joining Miami in 2002, where she is now a Professor of Physics. Her work involves giving more people access to science, whether that means making pedagogy more inclusive for all or working on issues of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. She became CAS Associate Dean in 2021.

As Professor of Physics

Bio

Jennifer Blue is a Professor of Physics at Miami University, working to give more people access to physics. Sometimes that means teaching classes to non-majors, sometimes it means reforming the curriculum for introductory classes, sometimes it’s working with K-12 science teachers, and sometimes it’s advocating for traditionally excluded populations through my research and service.

Research Interests

• Equity Issues in STEM
• Experiences of students taking physics classes
• Preparation of physics teachers

Education

• Haverford College
• University of Minnesota

Publications

Katemari Rosa, Jennifer Blue, Simone Hyater-Adams, Geraldine Cochran, and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (2021) Resource Letter: RP-1: Race and Physics. American Journal of Physics 89(8), 751-768.

Brielle Johnson, Woo J. Kim, Jennifer Blue, Amy Summerville, and Brian Kirkmeyer (2021). Gender difference in the functionality of regret on academic performance. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)’s Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity (CoNECD) 2021, Virtual Conference, Paper ID #28331.

Adrienne Traxler and Jennifer Blue (2020) Sex and Gender as Non-binary: What Does this Mean for Physics Teachers? The Physics Teacher 58(6), 395-398.

Adrienne Traxler and Jennifer Blue, “Disability in Physics: Learning from Binary Mistakes,” in Physics Education and Gender: Identity as an Analytic Lens for Research, edited by Allison J. Gonsalves and Anna T. Danielsson (Springer Nature Switzerland 2020), pp. 129-152.

Jennifer Blue, Adrienne Traxler, and Geraldine Cochran (2019) Resource Letter: GP-1: Gender and Physics, American Journal of Physics 87(8), 616-626.

Jennifer Blue, Amy Summerville, and Brian Kirkmeyer (2019) Social belonging among engineering students in early required courses. American Association for Engineering Education’s Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference Proceedings, 2019, Crystal City, VA, Paper ID #24844.

Jennifer Blue, Amy Summerville, Brielle Johnson, and Brian Kirkmeyer (2018) Succeeding but doubting: Effects of gender on performance and self-perception in early engineering courses. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference Proceedings, 2018, Salt Lake City, UT, Paper ID #21737.

Jennifer Blue, Adrienne L. Traxler, and Ximena C. Cid (2018) Gender in Physics: Insights from Physics Education. Physics Today 71(3), 40-46.

Jennifer Blue (2018) Assessing astronomy students' views about the nature of scientific inquiry. Physical Review Physics Education Research 14(1), 010141.

Jennifer Blue, Lana Rucks, and Charles Setterfield (2016) Improving Teaching Practices of STEM Teachers: The Teacher Synergistic Institute in Warren County. Ohio Journal of Teacher Education 30(2), 40-59. Adrienne L. Traxler, Ximena C. Cid,

Jennifer Blue, and Ramon Barthelemy (2016) Enriching Gender in PER: A binary past and a complex future. Physical Review Physics Education Research 12 (2), 020114

Research and Works in Progress

Jennifer is involved in a project that will produce a serial on Critical Race Theory for physicists.

An international scholar will be in residence in her lab in the Spring 2024 semester as they work together on a project comparing the experiences of women in physics in multiple countries.

She will continue to work with undergraduate students on projects that interest them. These tend to be about equity in STEM education, and recently have ranged from sex differences in experiences with group work to classroom experiences of queer students to how honors students experience impostor syndrome.