From: AAPT <aapt-memb@aapt.org>
Date: Wed Jun 16, 2004 1:16:25 PM America/New_York
Subject: AAPT Update Number 6
Reply-To: AAPT <aapt-memb@aapt.org>
This news summary is a service to our members and is from the Executive
Office of the American Association of Physics Teachers, College Park,
Maryland.
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JULY 13 DEADLINE TO SUBMIT POSTER & CONTRIBUTED POST DEADLINE ABSTRACTS
Don’t miss the deadline to submit posters and contributed post deadline
abstracts for the 129th National Meeting in Sacramento, CA. For more
information, go to
<http://www.aapt.org/Events/abstractForm.cfm> .
Five pre-college students and one alternate have been selected to travel
to Pohang, South Korea, to represent the United States in the 2004
International Physics Olympiad to be held July 15-23, 2004.
Congratulations to the finalists: Anson Hook of Princeton High School,
Princeton, NJ, Eric Mecklenburg of Hawken School, Gates Mills, OH,
Jeffrey
Middleton, LBJ High School, Austin, TX, Yi Sun, The Harker School, San
Jose, CA, Elena Udovina, Hathaway Brown School, Shaker Heights, OH. The
alternate is Daniel Whalen, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA. For more
information on the 2004 U.S. Physics Olympiad traveling team please go
to http://www.aapt.org/olympiad2004/team.cfm?Winners=1 .
Lawrence M. Krauss was recently awarded the AAPT’s most prestigious
award,
the Oersted Medal. The medal recognizes contributions to the teaching of
physics. Professor Krauss has made significant contributions to the
understanding of science on an international scale. He has written 10
books, and received the American Institute of Physics 2002 Writing
Award.
The next Oersted Medal will be given in 2005 and will include a monetary
stipend of $10,000, the recipient will also be one of the keynote
speakers
at the Ceremonial Session of the 130th AAPT National Meeting.
Nominations
are now being accepted for this and other 2005 AAPT awards. To nominate
someone for an AAPT award please go to
<http://www.aapt.org/Grants/awards.cfm> .
ComPADRE (Communities for Physics and Astronomy Digital Resources in
Education) is a well-organized, digital collection of high-quality
physics
and astronomy educational materials. ComPADRE currently contains four
collections: The Physical Sciences Resource Center, The Quantum
Exchange,
The Nucleus, and Physics To Go. Two other collections in development
are:
The Astronomy Center (projected launch Summer 2004) and The Physics
Front
(projected launch Fall 2004). More information on comPADRE can be found
by
visiting http://www.compadre.org .
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Dan MacIsaac, Assistant Professor of Physics, SUNY-Buffalo State College
222SCIE BSC, 1300 Elmwood Ave , Buffalo NY 14222 USA 716-878-3802
<macisadl@buffalostate.edu> <http://PhysicsEd.BuffaloState.edu>