Nancy Stamp is a community ecologist specializing in plant-insect herbivore-predator interactions. Specifically, why are some plants are so well defended against insects, whereas others aren’t? She has authored over a hundred journal articles, including a major review article, "Out of the Quagmire of Plant Defense Hypotheses", in the Quarterly Review of Biology. She has served on editorial boards of journals, served on numerous National Science Foundation funding panels, and been an invited speaker at national conferences. She has also had grants focusing on teaching science in K-12 schools (grades 3-6) and at the university level. She received the SUNY Chancellor's and Binghamton University Awards for Excellence in Teaching. She served as Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School for ten years. Then as Director (2013-2018), she designed and implemented BU's Freshman Research Immersion (FRI) program for science and engineering majors, which now has 300 freshmen and more than 200 sophomores per year. FRI is a three-course sequence of course-based undergraduate research experience (aka CURE).

Currently she focuses on science education research. The Sweet Spot on the Teaching-research Continuum. The Scientist, 3 Sept 2017

Stamp is also a free-lance writer specializing in articles with a science-and-culture orientation for mass media and trade magazines.