Tremaine Visiting Speaker Series for Women in Science

Natasha G. Holmes is the Ann S. Bowers Associate Professor at Cornell University and an alumna of the University of Guelph, where she completed her undergraduate degree in physics. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia and postdoctoral work at Stanford University. She is a leader in physics education research, where her work focuses on transforming undergraduate laboratory courses to better support scientific reasoning, experimentation, and model‑based thinking. Drawing on both disciplinary training and education research, Dr. Holmes studies how students learn through lab work and how course design and assessment can improve learning outcomes and student experiences, with equity and inclusion treated as foundational elements of effective learning environments.