With a heavy heart we share the sad news that Dr. Reinders Duit, a long-term NARST member, former NARST Director and recipient of the NARST Distinguished Contribution Award, has passed away on February 10.

Two NARST graduate students were selected to participate in the 2022 ESERA doctoral summer school in Utrecht, NL. The 2022 NARST graduate student scholars were Gozde Tosun [Penn State University] and Nadia Qureshi [University of Toronto]. Listen to their testimonials about their summer school experience.

If you would like to propose a virtual event in the coming months, the quarterly deadlines are January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1. You can complete an application through the NARST website. Please note that you will be required to login to your member account to complete the submission.

NARST is pleased to announced the creation of two new Research Interest Groups: Research in Artificial Intelligence-Involved Science Education (RAISE), and Asian and Pacific Islander Science Education Research (APISER). For more information, please refer to the full announcement.

Dear NARST community: We are saddened to share that Emeritus Professor Peter Fensham passed away recently. An article about Peter was written by Dick Gunstone for a Special Issue of Cultural Studies of Science Education. It does a wonderful job of sharing wonderful memories of Peter and the work that he did. He will be sorely missed.

It is with a heavy heart that we write to you with the sad news of the passing of NARST past president Norman G. Lederman. Norm passed on the morning of February 26, 2021 after a brief and unexpected illness.