Math, specifically calculus, is a barrier to many natural sciences, technology and engineering fields. Physics, which is math-heavy, often proves similarly challenging to students who wish to pursue ...

After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to ...

SANTA BARBARA — Based on research she conducted for her doctoral dissertation several years ago, Jatila van der Veen, a lecturer in the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara and a research ...

These teaching methods are now used throughout the department, and in 2019 it received the APS Award for Improving Undergraduate Education and the Southeastern Section of the APS selected Professor ...

Traditionally taught in high schools after chemistry and biology, some students never take a course in physics – but that could be changing. Despite resistance, even among physics teachers, more ...

Matt Harding has taught in the Iowa City Community School District for 25 years. (Iowa City Community School District) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some ...

Just 16% of total teaching hours for combined science are provided by a physics teacher with a post-A-level qualification, ...

Jesse Goldman received his PhD in experimental high-energy physics in 2000 and, following post-doctoral research on neutrino oscillations, turned his focus to physics teaching. While teaching in the ...

Nederland High School physics teacher Wendy Lapeyrolerie earned national runner-up status in a National Geographic essay ...