Monthly Archives: November 2020

If Florida’s students and educators are vaccinated during the next eight months, the fall of 2021 will be the first post-pandemic semester at Florida’s State University System institutions. What will our universities look like? Will they look like they did … Continue reading →

In the fall of 2019, 45 Florida public high schools of 1,000 or more students didn’t teach physics. That amounted to 12.4% of the 362 such high schools in the state. Earlier this week, The Physics Teacher published a study … Continue reading →

Don’t let the title of this post fool you into thinking I didn’t learn anything useful from my first experience with online teaching this fall – in a first semester calculus-based introductory physics course. Indeed, I learned many things and … Continue reading →

I teach one of those courses that the New York Times referred to recently as “weed-out” courses. I teach the two-semester introductory calculus-based physics sequence that is required for students majoring in engineering, meteorology, computer science, chemistry and (of course) … Continue reading →

In less than two months, K-12 principals, counselors, parents and students will begin the process of selecting courses for the 2021-22 school year. With vaccine development on track and getting results that are better than anyone dared expect, it’s possible … Continue reading →

FSU Physics Professor Susan Blessing has been elected to be the new Vice Chair of the American Physical Society’s Forum on Education. The Forum selects awardees for many of the society’s education-related awards, arranges talks on education for national meetings … Continue reading →

In July, nineteen middle and high school students from the Florida Panhandle (mostly from Bay County) participated in the 3rd annual edition of the Nuclear Medicine and Science Camp, which is a partnership between FSU’s Panama City campus, the FSU … Continue reading →