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Oregon Summer Outreach in Science



Readers in Oregon, Washington, California, Idaho and parts of Montana and
Nevada may be interested in the summer institute described below. Please
note that it is open to high school physics, chemistry and biology
teachers. Please pass the announcement along if you know of anyone who
might be interested. Thanks!

Oregon SOS Institute Set for Pacific Northwest Science Teachers

The University of Oregon will run a special institute for high
school science teachers during July 20 - August 1, 1997.
Oregon SOS (Summer Outreach in Science) is sponsored by the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and run jointly by the Departments
of Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Thirty teachers from the
Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California,
Northwestern Nevada and Western Montana) will be selected to
participate--ten teachers in each of the three disciplines:
biology, chemistry and physics.

Oregon SOS will introduce teachers to available active learning strategies;
involve the teachers in the design and adaptation of active learning materials
suited to their teaching environments; enable the teachers to implement these
strategies in their classrooms by making curricular materials, equipment and
supplies available to them; expose the teachers to some of the
contemporary areas of research in their disciplines, and in
interdisciplinary areas; and promote continued collaboration on
curricular reform between university and high school teachers.

Benefits for teachers include a $500 stipend plus a travel
stipend; $750 worth of microcomputer-based and other equipment
and/or supplies; all expenses paid while on campus; and 3 graduate
credit hours available for $52 per credit.

For more information and an application, phone or write to David
Sokoloff, Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
97403 (503) 346-4755. E-mail address: sokoloff@oregon.uoregon.edu.
The deadline for return of applications is April 1.




David R. Sokoloff
Associate Professor and Associate Head
Department of Physics
1274 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1274

sokoloff@oregon.uoregon.edu

phone: (541) 346-4755
fax: (541) 346-5861