Rate My Professor Noemi Waight

Throughout her career, Dr. Waight has been principal investigator or co-PI on several prestigious grants, including National Science Foundation awards for STEMcyclists: Black and Brown Youth Transforming Science and Engineering via Bikes ($2 million, 2024-2026), which engages Buffalo youth in hands-on STEM via cycling; RAPID: Co-Developing a Community-Based Science Education Curriculum for Disaster Justice and Resilience following the 2022 Buffalo Blizzard (2023-2024); and Connected Chemistry as Formative Assessment. Additional funding supports culturally responsive science teaching in Belize via NARST. Her scholarly contributions include the 2023 article “Like They Are Everyday Substances, You Like See Them, Hold Them, Use Them Every Day”: Students’ Understanding of Big Ideas and Macro and Submicro Chemistry Phenomena in the Context of Computer-based Models (Research in Science Education, with Liu and Whitford); co-edited special issues in Journal of Research in Science Teaching (2020); and book chapters such as School Leadership for Social Justice and STEM (2019). Dr. Waight serves as Associate Editor for JRST, Editorial Board Member for Journal of Science Teacher Education, and Board Member for the Williamsville Teacher Center Policy Board (2020-2023). She presented an invited lecture at the University of Southampton's School of Education Seminar Series in 2022.