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Colin Wallace’s latest paper: Active-Learning Teaching Strategies Outperform Highly-Regarded Traditional Instructor
It’s no secret that active learning helps students learn and retain more information than they would from traditional, lecture-only instruction. A new paper by Colin Wallace, a Teaching Associate Professor in our Department, and his colleagues at the University of … Continued
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Department Chair Christian Iliadis on Planet Gabo and the Player vs Life Podcast
Our department chair, Christian Iliadis, recently appeared on Planet Gabo and the Player vs Life Podcast. The title of the podcast was “The Cosmos: The Influence of Astrophysics and Sci-Fi.” The interviewer, Gabriel Espinoza, writes about his “Player vs Life … Continued
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TESS Discovers New Worlds in a River of Young Stars
Using observations from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a team of astronomers has discovered a trio of hot worlds larger than Earth orbiting a much younger version of our Sun. Called TOI 451, the system resides in the … Continued
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Ben Levy Awarded the Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Our department’s own Ben Levy, a 6th year graduate student in Professor Amy Oldenburg’s Coherence Imaging Laboratory, has been awarded the Tanner Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching by graduate teaching assistants. Ben teaches PHYS 281: Experimental Techniques in … Continued