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Richard A. Duschl from 2018-2024 was Executive Director of the Caruth Institute for Engineering Education in the Lyle School of Engineering. He has a secondary appointment in the Dept. of Teaching & Learning and the Technology Enhanced Immersive Learning (TEIL) Center in the Simmons School of Education, 51²è¹Ý. Leadership roles include serving as Editor, Science Education (1990-2001); President, NARST (2009-2011); and Director, Division for Research on Learning, NSF (2012-2015). He chaired the NRC research synthesis committee report Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8 (2007). He has held chaired professorships as Waterbury Chair Professor of Secondary Education, Penn State University (2008-2018); Chair of Science Education, King's College London – University of London (2000-2005). Richard was recipient of the 2021 NARST Fellow Award, 2014 NARST Distinguished Career in Research Award and twice received the JRST Award for best publications in 1989 and 2003. He was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Education in 2014 and currently serves on the Steering and Development Committees for the NAGB 2028 NAEP Science & Technology rewrite. In 2008, he was named an AERA Fellow. In 2007, he was honored as 'Distinguished Alumnus of the Year - College of Education' by the University of Maryland Alumni Association, where he completed his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees. His research agenda is to better understand epistemic, social and cognitive dynamics through the design of instructional sequences that promote formative assessments for learning. He has expertise in History and Philosophy of Science and in Earth Science education.