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Our team is always ready and willing to assist with questions about the Center for Science and Mathematics Education including upcoming events, guest speakers, learning assistants, and more.

CSME Team


Caitlin Gensler
Education Director

caitlin.gensler@utah.edu

Tino Nyawelo
Director of REFUGES
(801) 581-5306
nyawelo@math.utah.edu

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Kendall Van Horssen
Program Manager, CSME
(801) 581-7203
kendall.vanhorssen@utah.edu

Jody Oostema
USEF Program Manager
(801) 661-2120
jody.oostema@utah.edu

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Ricardo Gonzalez
REFUGES Afterschool
Program Coordinator
ricardo.gonzalez@utah.edu

Student Staff


Divyam Goel
USEF Special Awards Assistant

Jody Oostema
Program Manager, University of Utah Science & Engineering Fair
(801) 585-9109
jody.oostema@utah.edu

Contact Jody with Questions About:

University of Utah Science & Engineering Fair (USEF)

About Jody:

Jody is an Academic Program Manager who has been at CSME since 2010. Her effort is dedicated to managing the University of Utah Science & Engineering Fair (USEF). Since taking over USEF in 2005, Jody has more than tripled the number of student finalists, created a Student Advisory Board, and mentored over a hundred high school students. The fair achieved official University of Utah status in 2017. USEF is unique among regional science fairs in the number of outreach programs it offers and is proud to have several top winners at the International Science and Engineering Fair.

Jody’s area of expertise is organization and program management. Before bringing USEF to CSME, Jody managed the science and engineering fair at The Leonardo, where she traveled with Leonardo on Wheels. She has also worked with at-risk youth at an online mentoring company and was previously employed by a local private school.

Tino Nyawelo
Director of REFUGES Program, CSME
Professor (Lecturer), Department of Physics & Astronomy
(801) 581-5306
tino.nyawelo@utah.edu

Contact Tino with questions about:

REFUGES Afterschool Program

Physics & Astronomy REU and SURF Programs

About Tino:

I am a Professor (Lecturer) of Physics and Astronomy at the Department of Physics & Astronomy, and has been at the University of Utah since 2007. I received my B.Sc. with honor in Physics in 1996 at Sudan University of Science and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan. In 1998, I obtained my master’s degree in theoretical high energy physics at the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. I earned a PhD in theoretical physics from the Free University of Amsterdam in 2004 under the direction of Prof. Jan-Willem van Holten with my thesis on Non-linear field theory with supersymmetry: Hydrodynamics and sigma models.  I then conducted postdoctoral research at ICTP, and later at the University of Utah.