APS April Meeting 2015
Volume 60, Number 4
Saturday–Tuesday, April 11–14, 2015;
Baltimore, Maryland
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Session J6: Research Experiences and Confronting Controversy in Undergraduate Education
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Sponsoring Units: GPER FEd
Chair: Benjamin Dreyfus, University of Maryland
Room: Key 2
Sunday, April 12, 2015
10:45AM - 11:21AM
J6.00001: Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution Talk: The Rewards of Research at an Undergraduate Institution and Lessons Learned in Building Detector Systems that Work
Invited Speaker:
Donald Isenhower
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Sunday, April 12, 2015
11:21AM - 11:33AM
J6.00002: Access to undergraduate research opportunities at a large research university
Heather Lewandowski
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Sunday, April 12, 2015
11:33AM - 11:45AM
J6.00003: GRAD-MAP: The First Year and Beyond
Ashlee Wilkins, Katherine Jameson, Sylvia Zhu, Alexander McCormick, David Green, Lora Price, Myra Stone, Paul Syers, Gareth Roberg-Clark, Corbin Taylor, Sonali Shukla, Stuart Vogel, Donna Hammer, Tim Uher
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Sunday, April 12, 2015
11:45AM - 11:57AM
J6.00004: Why I think Computational Physics has been the most valuable part of my undergraduate physics education
Matthew Parsons
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Sunday, April 12, 2015
11:57AM - 12:09PM
J6.00005: Debates of science vs. religion in undergraduate general education cosmology courses
Ramon Lopez-Aleman
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Sunday, April 12, 2015
12:09PM - 12:21PM
J6.00006: Methods of teaching the physics of climate change in undergraduate physics courses
Michael Sadler
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Sunday, April 12, 2015
12:21PM - 12:33PM
J6.00007: Where do Students Go Wrong in Applying the Scientific Method?
Louis Rubbo, Christopher Moore
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Sunday, April 12, 2015
12:33PM - 12:45PM
J6.00008: Development of a Modern Cosmic Ray Telescope based on Silicon Photomultipliers for use in High Schools
Daniel Ruiz Castruita, Rommel Niduaza, Victor Hernandez, Adrian Knox, Daniel Ramos, Sewan Fan, Laura Fatuzzo
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