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AAPT Update 2000 Number 4
The following message is from the Executive Office of the American
Association of Physics Teachers, College Park, Maryland.
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1) EARLY-BIRD PREREGISTRATION DEADLINE MAY 26
2) 2000 INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS OLYMPIAD
3) RESULTS OF THE AAPT/METROLOGIC PHYSICS BOWL
4) 2000 INTEL INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FAIR WINNERS
5) AJP - LOOKING FOR A NEW EDITOR, TO START JULY 1, 2001
6) AJP AVAILABLE ONLINE
7) FULLER FUND MEMBERSHIP NOMINATIONS
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1) EARLY-BIRD PREREGISTRATION DEADLINE MAY 26
Save $$$ - The deadline for Early-Bird Preregistration for the 2000 Summer
Meeting in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, is Friday, May 26. Save time and
postage by submitting electronically through the web at http://www.aapt.org/meetings/sum00/mainsum00.html.
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2) 2000 INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS OLYMPIAD
The twenty-four members of the 2000 US International Physics Olympiad Team
are in training at the University of Maryland from May 21 through May 28.
More information about the team and the olympiad is available at the
following web site http://www.aapt.org/olympiad/.
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3) RESULTS OF THE AAPT/METROLOGIC PHYSICS BOWL
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4) 2000 INTEL INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FAIR WINNERS
AAPT and APS sponsored over $1700 in awards at ISEF 2000. This year's
competition
was held in Detroit. Serving as judges for AAPT and APS were Alvin
Saperstein, Wayne State University, Don Wallace, Oakland University, and
Bahram Roughnani, Kettering University. A list of the AAPT/APS winners
can
be found at http://www.sciserv.org/isef/sao2000.asp.
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5) AJP - LOOKING FOR A NEW EDITOR, TO START JULY 1, 2001
A search committee has been appointed to seek a new editor for the
American Journal of Physics, to begin his or her duties on July 1, 2001.
The new editor will succeed Robert H. Romer, who has served as editor since
1988.
The search committee welcomes inquiries, suggestions, nominations, and
applications. For a more complete description of the search procedures and
for an editorial on the subject ("Why not be editor?") by the current
editor, visit http://www.amherst.edu/~ajp/EdannW1.htm
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6) AJP AVAILABLE ONLINE
Did you know that the American Journal of Physics is now available online?
If you subscribe to the print edition of the journal, you can now access
editions online. You can view the full text of AJP in either HTML or PDF
format as far back as January of 1999. Online users also have the option
of creating their own article collection and can take advantage of
reference
linking with articles.
For more information or to subscribe to the AJP online journal, please
contact the AAPT Member & Subscriber Services Dept at 301-209-3333 or by
email at aapt-memb@aapt.org, or you may visit our website at http://www.aapt.org/pubs_catalog/ajp.html.
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7) FULLER FUND MEMBERSHIP NOMINATIONS
The Harold Q & Charlotte Mae Fuller Fund was created to enhance the
internationalization of AAPT membership and is intended to be beneficial
to physics teachers in developing countries with non convertible
currencies.
Chosen individuals responding in a positive manner will have their full
membership dues paid to receive the Physics Teacher (or the American
Journal of Physics, if they prefer) for a period of two years.
To receive a nomination form, contact AAPT Member & Subscriber Services at
301-209-3300 or aapt-mem.@aapt.org, or you may visit the website at http://www.aapt.org/aaptgeneral/endowment.html.
The AAPT membership & benefits committee will be reviewing Fuller Fund
Nomination requests at the summer meeting in Guelph, Canada.
The American Association of Physics Teachers
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College Park, MD 20740-3845
Voice: 301-209-3300
Fax: 301-209-0845
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