Luisa Rosu

Luisa-Maria Rosu is the Director of I-STEM (Illinois Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) Education Initiative and a Research Associate in the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. A former mathematics teacher, elementary through college, her interests evolved from teachers’ professional knowledge and continuing education to the quality of teaching and the case study evaluation of STEM programs in higher education. She has led evaluations for a wide range of STEM initiatives and research centers, spanning projects at UIUC, across Illinois, throughout the United States, and in international contexts. In 2014, she received a CORE Early Career Fulbright U.S. scholar award for the proposal Investigations of Quality Criteria in STEM Teacher Education and in 2016, she received the YWCA leadership award for STEM education. Luisa received her Ph.D. in Continuing Teacher Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2010. She also holds an M.A in Applied Mathematics from the University of Southern California (2000) and an M.S. in Real and Complex Analysis from the University of Bucharest, Romania (1996).