Welcome

The Joan and James Leitzel Center works to transform education in mathematics, science, and engineering at the University of New Hampshire, in elementary and secondary schools, and informal settings through high quality research, carefully examined practice, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

The Center facilitates partnerships and initiates programs and activities with the goal of developing educators' thorough knowledge of science, mathematics, and engineering concepts and human learning strategies; developing learners who experience the joy of discovery and the challenge of understanding; and developing learning environments that support active and rich intellectual engagement.

The Center activities take place within a university culture that values the creation and the dissemination of knowledge equally, where the boundaries between research and teaching are blended, and where the research enterprise strengthens instruction in the K-12 schools and the university. Science and mathematics researchers of distinction play critical roles in the development of proposals and related Center activities. In addition, the Center will work to sustain and strengthen existing partnerships between UNH, local schools, and non-formal science settings.