This morning’s plenary was by KC Cole on her new book Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up

As anyone who knows one whit about me recognizes, this talk about Frank Oppenheimer and his creation of the Exploratorium was deeply significant to me. I was a postdoc under Paul Doherty […]

This session is about how we prepare our undergraduates for graduate school — what to consider, and how we’re doing.
One thing to consider, in thinking about the goals of our undergraduate majors, is that we actually don’t want to prepare all of our undergraduates for graduate school. Physics is a liberal arts degree, […]

Teaching in Urban Schools - Katya Denisova - Science Coordinator, Baltimore Public Schools.

This was a talk about factors to consider when teaching science in schools with high poverty levels. Baltimore has a large poverty rate (30% of kids under 18 live in poverty if I understood her statistic right, though that seems high), […]

Our education research group here at University of Colorado had a visit and a very interesting talk by Sanjoy Mahajan, director of the teaching and learning laboratory at MIT and former physics professor, last semester. He focuses on understanding and improving students number sense, mostly through use of approximations and estimations. He’s a […]