Nancy Albrecht, Mary H. Hoelscher, and Kristina Maruyama Tank from the C&I department and the STEM Center presented their individual research in a symposium titled STEM Education – Social, Cultural, Epistemological, and Pedagogical Issues and sponsored by the Equity and Ethics Committee at the annual National Association of Research in Science Teaching conference held in Puerto Rico from April 6-9. The three PhD students were the recipients of the Basu Fellowship in 2012.