Many of my scholarly articles up to 2019 are catalogued here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QoOdkG4AAAAJ
More recently…
STEM Education Flips Standards, takes on the love/hate relationship between STEM advocates and the national standards in math, science, and technology that help and hinder our progress, in STEM Magazine, December, 2025, p. 16
STEM Education: Time for a Re-brand, addresses one of STEM’s eight Grand Challenges, appears in STEM Magazine November, 2025 p. 20
State of Science (and STEM Education) – a recap of the 2025 National Academies President’s and Panel remarks, published by the STEM Education Coalition, June 10, 2025
STEM’s Grand Challenges — And Opportunities, published in The 74, June 4, 2025
Work-based Learning for All: Aligning K-12 Education and the Workplace for both Students and Teachers, published by the Federation of American Scientists, December 11, 2024
A Comparison of Two Federal STEM Education Strategic Plans: the newly released 2024-2029 plan and the 2018-2023 plan, published by the STEM Coalition, December 6, 2024
Establishing White House Initiative for STEM Educational Excellence & Workforce Development at the U.S. Department of Education, in partnership with Melissa Moritz of the Alliance for Learning Innovation, published by the Federation of American Scientists, December 16, 2024
AI on AI in Education, in T.H.E. Journal, August 8, 2024
STEM Education at a Crossroads in STEM Magazine pages 22-25, June, 2024
K-12 STEM Education For the Future Workforce: A Wish List for the Next Five Year Plan, in partnership with the Federation of American Scientists and the Alliance for Learning Innovation, April 30, 2024
What’s Good for STEM is Good for Education, appeared in the Des Moines Register on April 2, 2023
The Challenge and Promise of American STEM Education, in “A Nation at Launch” essays on the nation’s STEM needs, curated by the Teaching Institute for Studies in Education (TIES), October, 2022
STEM Leads ‘edu-nomic’ development for Iowa appeared in the Des Moines Register on February 12, 2022
The Front Line of Workforce Development: PreK-12 Education appeared in the Southeast Asian Journal of STEM Education in January, 2021
What’s Next For STEM for Iowa and the nation? appeared in the Des Moines Register on Dec. 2, 2020
How Educator Externships Prepare Today’s Students for Tomorrow’s Workforce, appeared in The Evolllution magazine on Feb. 6, 2020
Advisory Councils Bring Sunshine appeared in the Education Commission of States EdNote on May 30, 2018
Doctoring New STEM Teachers appeared in the Education Commission of States EdNote on September 6, 2016
Meeting an American Hero, appeared in the Humboldt (Iowa) Independent on Veterans Day (November 10) 2016
Characteristics and Effects of a Statewide STEM Program appeared in the journal K12 STEM Education in October, 2015
College Ready? Or Ready Colleges? appeared in the Des Moines Register in 2015
Oldies but Goodies A Faculty Interdisciplinary Institute as Liberator from Stifling Disciplinary Mythology appeared in College Teaching in 2007 “I’m Not the Science Type”: Effect of an Inquiry Biology Content Course on Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Intentions About Teaching Science appeared in the Journal of Science Teacher Education in 2005 The clearance in vivo and metabolism of ecdysone and 3‐dehydroecdysone in tissues of the crab Cancer antennarius appeared in the Journal of Experimental Zoology in 1998
POTPOURRI
COMMENTARY: From CEO to Average Joe – Navigating Retirement 2024, Oswego Business Journal
FICTION: Model Planet, in the magazine Midnight Zoo
COLUMNS: Educational Leadership Science Trends 1, Science Trends 2, Science Trends 3
ARTICLES: Educational Horizons 1 and 2 Phi Delta Kappan 1 and 2 School Administrator College Science Teaching American Biology Teacher The Science Teacher 1 and 2 Missouri Conservationist
SILLY SCIENCE: Journal of Irreproducible Results 1 and 2
Book Reviews by Weld: Humboldt’s Cosmos, by Gerard Helferich
Weld Writes BOOKS 