Laura McCullough (physicist)
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Laura Ellen McCullough (born 1954)[1] is an American physics educator, and a professor in the Chemistry & Physics Department at the University of Wisconsin–Stout.[2] She is known for her work on women in physics.[3]
As a high school student, McCullough already intended to become a physics professor.[3] She majored in physics at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, graduating magna cum laude in 1994. She continued her studies in physics at the University of Minnesota, receiving a master's degree in 1997 and completing a Ph.D. in physics education in 2000.[4] Her dissertation, The Effect of Introducing Computers into an Introductory Physics Problem-Solving Laboratory, was supervised by Patricia Heller.[5]
She joined the University of Wisconsin–Stout as an assistant professor of physics in 2000, and was promoted to associate professor in 2004. In 2010 she became a full professor. She chaired the university's physics department from 2008 to 2014.[4]
Book
McCullough is the author of the book Women and Physics (IOP Publishing 2016; 2nd ed., 2024).[6]