Wednesday 15 July 2015

ACSME Discipline Day theme suggestions?

The ACSME physics discipline day will  be held on Friday 2 October 2015 from 12:30pm-3:30pm at Murdoch University. We've left the theme open for now, but we should make sure we choose one soon so we can organise speakers.

What's your pressing issue?

d.hoxley@latrobe.edu.au

AIP Congress 2016

It's probably a good time to start thinking about AIP congress 2016. What do you want from the teaching and learning side? Are you able to submit a paper? If not, why not? Do you need help? Do you need money to help with travel/registration? Are you willing to review submissions? Let me know, and I'll liase with Margaret Wegener and Craig Savage.

d.hoxley@latrobe.edu.au

Undergraduates and research labs- does it work? Is it worth it?

Programmes at California State University address the challenges of bringing undergraduates into research labs (see Nature 518 , 127 – 128 ; 10.1038/nj7537-127a 2015 ). The students are then better equipped for admission to the top professional training programmes in the United States and worldwide.
Nature | 11 March 2015 | 10.1038/519158c
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Let's start a thread on undergrads (and/or schoolkids) in research labs. Does it work? Let me know at d.hoxley@latrobe.edu.au


Tuesday 14 July 2015

Overseas students in MSc by coursework

Does anyone have any experience with overseas masters students? A few members of PEG have reported increased applications, and are unsure what the issues involved are. Anyone got any experience? Email me at d.hoxley@latrobe.edu.au. 

ReMSTEP- 'reconceptualising' teacher training


It seems that many people agree that secondary school teachers need a bit of help in transmitting the love of science that involvement in research can inspire- the ReMSTEP project is trying to capture some of that smoke in a bottle. It has the interesting secondary aim of getting tertiary academics in education and science working together- a suprosingly rare event in many universities.

Do you work with your university's department/school/faculty/college of education? If so, how does it go? If not, why not? Email me at d.hoxley@latrobe.edu.au- I'm interested in your stories.