Engagement and Activism in Modern Physics Educatio

Ximena Cid (second from left) stands with students in front of a mural on the CSUDH campus. Credit: CSUDH By Korena Di Roma HowleyAs a young girl growing up in Sacramento, California, Ximena Cid would sit on her roof and stare at the night sky. "I always had a love of the stars, of the universe," she says. Today, Cid is chair of the physics department at California State University Dominguez Hills and has pivoted from a focus in space science to one in physics education research (PER). "In grad ...