Christine Broadbridge is Professor of Physics and Executive Director of Research and Innovation at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) and received her M.S. and Ph.D. in engineering from Brown University, where she conducted research in the fields of materials science, physics and nanotechnology. She started her faculty career at Trinity College in Hartford, where she established a materials science and engineering facility. She also founded and directed the United Technologies/Trinity College Engineering Initiative (UTCEI), a highly successful program designed to broaden participation in STEM. In January of 1998, Dr. Broadbridge was appointed Visiting Fellow at Yale University and in September of 2000 she joined the Physics Department at SCSU. Broadbridge has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on over a dozen National Science Foundation (NSF) projects. She participated as co-PI in the establishment and serves as education director for the Center for Research on Interface Structures and Phenomena (CRISP) at Yale and SCSU and has served as Visiting Fellow in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Yale and Research Scientist at UConn Institute of Materials Science. She is the founding Director for the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities Center for Quantum & Nanotechnology, Werth Nanotech Industry Academic Fellowship Program, SCSU Division of Research and Innovation, the SCSU Innovation HUB and the BioScience Academic and Career Pathway Initiative (BioPath). Dr. Broadbridge is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of Sigma Pi Sigma and Tau Beta Pi (national honor societies for physics and engineering respectively), Board of Directors for QuantumCT, and she recently completed terms as President for the CT Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) and Board of Directors for the Materials Research Society.