Session T6: Graduate Education in Physics: Which Way Forward

2:30 PM–5:30 PM, Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Room: Portland Ballroom 253

Sponsoring Units: FEd FGSA
Chair: Theodore Hodapp, American Physical Society

Abstract ID: BAPS.2010.MAR.T6.2

Abstract: T6.00002 : Graduate Education in Physics in the 21st Century

3:06 PM–3:42 PM

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Author:

  Cherry Murray
    (Harvard University)

Much has changed in the role of physics in the US in the last several decades. The US and the globe face many challenges in the 21st century that would benefit from physics approaches and training. Is our graduate education preparing Ph D's in physics for these challenges?

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