Experts Guide

Latimer's research focuses on making STEM education -- especially math -- more welcoming and meaningful for all students, both in formal and informal learning contexts. He studies how teachers prepare and grow in ways that honor student experiences, interests and needs and explores the experiences of academic mothers and how caregiving can inform and strengthen teaching, mentoring and educational leadership. He also examines out-of-school STEM programs to understand how young people develop confidence and a strong sense of identity in engineering and science.