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Mary M. Atwater is the President of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), an inaugural Fellow of the AERA, and a Fellow of the AAAS. She led the effort to establish NARST’s first research interest group and served as its elected chair until she was elected president-elect of NARST. She has been the principal investigator or co-principal investigator of several federally funded and privately funded grants totally over $3.76 million. In 2012 she received a $100,000 NSF grant to initiate mini-symposia to develop scholars of color in science education and recently received supplemental funding to continue this grant activity. Her publications include articles, book chapters, edited books, and a co-authored K-8 science program. She recently co-edited "Multicultural science education: Preparing teachers for equity and social justice.”