Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.
Jun 30th, 2008
I’m back in Farmville after spending the weekend in College Park, MD being taught how to teach. (Technically, I’m in Richmond working on research right now, but I will be in Farmville tonight.) I didn’t get an opportunity to blog about the workshop much as it was going, because the schedule was very dense and [...]
Uhhgg! The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August. But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists’ wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth? Or spit out particles [...]
I attended two workshops today on funding: the first for the National Science Foundation and the second for the private Research Corporation. Just these two workshops were worth the price of admission for this conference. The first 15 minutes of the NSF workshop was boring organizational charts outlining deadlines and other stuff that I know [...]
I have arrived in Maryland for the American Association of Physics Teachers New Faculty workshop. I have a lot to learn this weekend, and I will try to keep you posted on what juicy bits I come across. In about an hour I’ll be attending a Grant Opportunities workshop with the National Science Foundation and [...]
Jun 25th, 2008
Our PR people here at Longwood are pretty good. A few days ago, I mentioned the short blurb about our NSF grant in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. On Monday, the Lynchburg News & Advance listed me among the “Movers and Shakers” in the central Virginia area. My colleagues will probably not be too happy [...]
Jun 17th, 2008
It appears that the press release issued by Longwood concerning the grant I was recently awarded was picked up by the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Farmville A Longwood University physics professor and two colleagues from Virginia Commonwealth University recently received a National Science Foundation grant for a research project that could help improve technology for high-density optical [...]