Colleen Countryman is an Assistant Professor in Physics at Ithaca College. She graduated with her Ph.D. in Physics, specializing in Physics Education Research, from North Carolina State University in 2015. She has also obtained a Masters in Applied Mathematics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute (2010) as well as a B.A. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Physics from Canisius College (2008). Colleen is interested in educational technologies, and her dissertation project involved the development, implementation and assessment of an app that utilized smartphones’ internal sensors in introductory physics labs. At Ithaca College, Colleen teaches introductory and advanced physics courses in active learning formats and coordinates and trains undergraduate Learning Assistants. She is a member of the Ithaca College Teaching, Learning and Technology Advisory Board, and serves as an advisory member of an NSF grant on Mapping Fields in Augmented Reality with Personal Mobile Devices. She was also part of a team that was awarded a President’s Grant at Ithaca College for the use of technology in supplemental resource videos.
