Her specialties are inquiry science teacher education and also epistemological complexities of p-16 students. Currently she is a PI on Towson's PhysTEC project, which has successfully fostered inquiry teaching understanding and practice among hundreds of preservice elementary teachers at Towson. Dr. Lising's Ph.D. work was in low energy particle physics at the University of California at Berkeley, and she did two postdocs, one as a National Research Council Fellow with Bill Phillips at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (atomic physics) and a second one with Joe Redish and David Hammer at the University of Maryland in physics education research. Dr. Lising has been especially lucky to work with and learn from many dedicated and talented elementary teachers and, of course, the children in their classrooms.