Award I Level 1, the Outstanding Science Teacher Educator of the Year Award, recognizes the individual achievements and contributions of persons having ten or fewer years in their career service. This year’s awardee for Award I Level 1 is Dr. Catherine Milne.

Dr. Catherine Milne is an Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. Originally a high school science teacher and administrator in the Northern Territory of Australia, Catherine opted for higher education to study questions about the philosophical and historic origins of school science. Her collaborative and individual research interests include urban science education, the nature of representations and genres in learning science, games and learning, self-assessment, co-teaching and teacher education, sociology of emotions, and history and philosophy of science and school science. She is Co-PI on a collaborative multimedia and learning research project called Molecules and Minds funded by the US Department of Education. Currently in its efficacy stage, this project supports the development and integration of multimedia simulations for chemistry education into chemistry curricula in New York and Texas. She worked with chemistry teachers to develop models of multimedia integration for this project that have wider applicability. She is a member of the Games for Learning Institute jointly funded by Microsoft and NYU with the goal of conducting empirical studies to understand the allure and education potential of games for learning science. Catherine teaches a range of courses in science curriculum, history of science, and chemistry for the Science Education program at NYU. She also serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching and Research in Science Education and is Co-coordinator of Strand 1- Student Learning, Understanding, and Conceptual Change for the National Association of Research in Science Teaching.