General information:

            Dr. Weinburgh is the William L. & Betty F. Adams Chair of Education and the Director of the Andrews Institute of Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education. She taught biology, health, and physical science for 16 years before completing her doctorate in 1993.  Her first faculty appointment was at Georgia State University (1991-2002) in Atlanta, Georgia.  During her tenure at Georgia State University she taught science methods courses for elementary, middle and high school education majors. She joined the faculty at Texas Christian University in 2002 where she teaches science education courses at the graduate and undergraduate level in the College of Education and introductory biology courses in the College of Science and Engineering.

            She is an active member of numerous science education societies.  Her service to these include: President of the Association for Science Teacher Education (2001), President of Southwest Association for Science Teacher Education (2007), Association for Science Teacher Education Board of Directors (1998-2001), Strand Coordinator of Culture, Social and Gender Issues of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (2000-2002), Chair of the Committee on Math and Science Education of the Council of Science Society Presidents (2002), Local Arrangement  Committee for the National Science Teachers Association (1996),  Policy Committee of the School Science and Mathematics Association (2002-2005) and Finance Committee of the School Science and Mathematics Association (2005-2008).   

She has published in journals such as the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Journal of Science Teacher Education, Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, Current Issues in Middle Level Education, TechTrends, The Georgia Science Teacher, and School Science and Mathematics.  She has a chapter in Culturally Responsive Teaching (which was recognized by the Georgia Chapter of the National Association of Multicultural Education as outstanding and positively reviewed in the Journal of Moral Education in 2003), a chapter in Learning from Cases: Unraveling the Complexities of Elementary Science Teaching, and edited and contributed several chapters to the Professional Development Manual created by the Integrating Gender Equity and Reform (InGEAR) project. She is a reviewer for the Journal of Science for Persons with Disabilities, the Journal of Elementary Science Education, the Georgia Educational Researcher, and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.

She has received external, competitive funding totaling nearly $7,000,000 from the Eisenhower Fund, National Science Foundation, SouthEastern Regional Vision for Education, and Coca Cola Foundation.  Projects include the Elementary Science Education Partners which was a Local Systemic Initiative for improving K-5 science in the Atlanta Public School System, the Integrating Gender Equity and Reform (InGEAR) project which was a gender equity project focusing on the teaching of science and math at the college level, the Decatur Math/Science Project, and PT3 which helped establish technology rich educational environments in science. ESEP,  InGEAR, and the Decatur Math/Science Project were cited by the Atlanta Regional Consortium for Higher Education as outstanding programs between higher education and school systems. 

In the fall of 2007, she was nominated by the students for TCU Most Inspirational Faculty Award (www.sga.tcu.edu) and nominated by the College of Education for the Dean’s Research and Creativity Award.

Her honors include: 
Woman of the Year - 2000, American Biographical Institute; 
Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars (March 2000 inductions);
2000 International Who’s Who of Professional and Business Women  (nominated by Dr. Beth Farokhi),;
2000 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (nominated by Sherry Pattillo, GSU class ‘99);
1999 John Shrum for Excellence in Science Teacher Education, Southeastern Association of Educators of Teachers of Science (nominated by DavidKumar, Florida Atlantic);
Nominated for National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST) Early Career Research Award for 1999 (nominated by Ann Stucke, North Georgia College);
Nominated for American Association of University Women (AAUW) Emerging Scholar for 1998  (nominated by Dr. Beth Farokhi, GSU),;
Distinguished Paper Award, Georgia Educational Research Association, 1993;
Distinguished Paper Award, Georgia Educational Research Association, 1992.