Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.
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 [...]
Mar 3rd, 2008
The San Fransisco Chronicle reports that a Quaker math teacher was fired for refusing to sign an oath of allegiance. This is not necessarily physics news, but having gone to Guilford College and having a background in the Society of Friends, this is an interesting story to me. Marianne Kearney-Brown, a Quaker and graduate student [...]
Jun 12th, 2007
Epsori Space Systems announced today that its Free Seeds Experiment will be flying aboard the Up Aerospace SL-2 launch, scheduled for Saturday, April 28 th 2007 . Epsori Space Systems will distribute the experiment to 2500 classrooms in the fall of 2007. The payload contains 22 ounces of mixed vegetable seeds. Teachers in grades 3-5 [...]
Sep 21st, 2006
NASA scrubbed its “Teachers in Space” program after the tragic Challenger accident that led to the death of Christa McAuliffe. The program was reintroduced nearly a decade later, only to be slowed to a near halt along with the entire shuttle program with the break-up of Columbia over Texas. I was teaching high-school right before [...]
Sep 13th, 2006
Here is an interesting story about a group of teachers floating in freefall during the “Weightless Flights of Discovery” program, sponsored by the aerospace company Northrop Grumman in cooperation with Zero Gravity Corp. On one level, the exercise gives educators a chance to demonstrate the laws of physics in an environment like nothing on Earth: [...]
A Florida physics teacher has been nominated to represent his state for the 2005 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Luther Davis will attend a ceremony on May 1st-6th in Washington, DC. The winner will be chosen among the 50 states and will be announced by the President. From the Orlando Sentinel: [...]