Wendy Adams

Wendy K. Adams is an American physics educator.

She is a research professor of physics in the Colorado School of Mines.

[5] and the Executive Director of Get the Facts Out [6] a national multi-society effort to repair the reputation of the teaching profession.

The award cited her "systematic development, dissemination, and evaluation of the physics education tool, PhET Interactive Simulations project, used world-wide by millions of students and their teachers".

[1] In 2019 she was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society, after a nomination by the APS Forum on Education, "for impactful physics education research and the subsequent development of assessments in the areas of problem solving, student beliefs, and teacher preparation, leading to a range of improvements such as increased student learning and reductions in physics teacher shortages".