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Eugenia Etkina is a Russian-American researcher and professor of Physics. Her primary fields of interest are in Physics Education Research, Content Knowledge for Teaching Physics, and Physics Teacher Preparation. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of Science Education at Rutgers University Graduate School of Education.

Education and Career
Etkina graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical University in 1997 with a Ph.D. in Physics Education. Etkina has taught physics for over 35 years at a variety of educational levels, including middle school, high school, and university.

Prior to earning her Ph.D., Etkina taught physics in Russia, and in 1988, she developed a learning system to help students learn physics in a way that mimicked scientific processes. Later, in 2000, she further developed this system along with Alan Van Heuvelen to create an engaging physics education method, the Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE).

Publications
Etkina has authored over 100 peer-refereed scientific articles and has given over 170 scientific presentations. She is credited with a variety of works, including over 60 articles in refereed journals, eight textbook editions, and over 40 refereed conference proceedings. Notably, Etkina has co-authored several papers on the effectiveness of techniques in teaching physics, including her papers “Using early teaching experiences and a professional community to prepare pre-service teachers for every-day classroom challenges, to create habits of student-centered instruction and to prevent attrition” (2015) and “Design of an assessment to probe teachers’ Content Knowledge for Teaching: An example from energy in HS physics” (2017).

Etkina co-wrote a college physics textbook entitled “College Physics: Explore and Apply” along with Alan Van Heuvelen and Gorazd Planinsic. The book, which was initially published in 2014 and whose second edition was published in 2019, is based on Etkina’s and Van Heuvelen’s ISLE physics education approach. “College Physics: Explore and Apply” is widely used in the United States in university-level physics courses, as well as high school AP Physics courses.

Awards and Recognition
Etkina is the recipient of several awards for physics research and education, including the 2014 Millikan Medal from the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), the New Jersey Teacher Educator of the Year award, and the Rutgers Graduate School of Education Alumni Association Outstanding Faculty Research Award. The 1st edition of her textbook, “College Physics: Explore and Apply” was also awarded the Most Promising Textbook Award in 2016 from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA).