Michael Szopiak serves as an associate program director for the Center for STEM Education. In this role, Szopiak supports various academic, programmatic, and research efforts of the Center, including the Notre Dame STEM Teaching Fellows program. His primary interests lie in teaching and learning in science classrooms as well as research at the intersection of science education and theology. Szopiak earned both his M.Ed. and M.Div. from the University of Notre Dame.