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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APRIL 6 ABSTRACT DEADLINE
April 6 is the deadline for submitting abstracts for the 127th AAPT
National Meeting in Madison, WI, August 2-6, 2003. The meeting theme is
"The Physics of Form and Function." For information on Call for Papers,
or to submit an abstract, go to http://www.aapt.org/Events/call4papers.cfm.
An AAPT member who is a department chair of any university with a
graduate
physics program may nominate one teaching assistant (TA) who will then
be
awarded the AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. The award
includes
a complimentary one-year student membership in AAPT. Deadline for
nomination is May 9, 2003. For more information go to http://www.aapt.org/Grants/outstandingta.cfm
Entries are now being accepted for the 2003 High School Physics Photo
Contest. The contest is open to all high school students. The top 100
photographs will be exhibited and judged at the 127th AAPT National
Meeting in Madison, WI, August 2-6, 2003. Information on how to enter
the
contest can be found at http://www.aapt.org/Contests/photocontest.cfm
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>