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Carole Greenes is Associate Vice Provost for STEM Education, Professor of Mathematics Education, and Director of the Practice, Research and Innovation in Mathematics Education (PRIME) Center at Arizona State University. Currently, she is Principal Investigator for three research projects, Prime the Pipeline Project: Putting Knowledge to Work for high school students and high school mathematics, science, business and technology teachers (NSF, 2008 – 2013), and STEM in the Middle for middle-school students and grades 5 – 8 math and science teachers (Helios Education Foundation, 2011 -2014), as well as a curriculum development project, the CK-12 Foundation, Algebraic Reasoning Modules open-source instructional materials. Her research focuses on K-14 students' difficulties with algebraic concepts and reasoning methods, and the design of assessment and intervention strategies and tasks to advance learning.

Dr. Greenes has authored more than three-hundred mathematics books and programs, seventy articles, four math musical mysteries, and one musical history of mathematics (performed throughout the US). Among her activities nationally, Dr. Greenes has participated as a mentor and in leadership capacities in numerous local, regional and national organizations committed to advancing elementary and secondary education.

Dr. Greenes will head the BioXFEL Center's outreach and in-reach efforts at Arizona State University's STC. Her work will focus on increasing the number of academically well-prepared students for advanced coursework in the sciences by engaging and sparking their interest in the exciting new field of Structural Biology with Free Electron Lasers. To accomplish this goal, the PRIME Center (C. Greenes, M. Cavanagh and S. Tingey) will employ a modified version of the innovative Scientific Village approach developed and evaluated for the NSF-funded Prime the Pipeline Project.