Monthly Archives: May 2021

This spring, 16,824 of Florida’s public high school students were taking the second-semester college “freshman” English class via dual enrollment at the state’s public colleges and universities. The course, ENC 1102, enrolled about three times as many students as the … Continue reading →

Every year, our Nuclear Medicine and Science Summer Camp includes a field trip to a nuclear medicine facility. During the first year of the camp, we visited a local hospital and learned about the use of Technetium-99 in medical imaging. … Continue reading →

Dear Ms. Merriweather: I appreciate that you took the time to get involved in the public recognition and discussion of the success of the physics program at Orange County’s Jones High School, which was featured in an Orlando Sentinel article … Continue reading →

According to a report released this week by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Statistical Research Center, the percentage of high school graduates who have taken at least one physics class in high school grew significantly between 2013 and 2019. … Continue reading →

This morning, Florida State University’s Presidential Search Advisory Committee will begin publicly considering candidates to succeed President John Thrasher, who has been an extraordinarily successful and popular leader. One of the candidates they will be considering is Randy Hanna, the … Continue reading →

This summer, FSU’s Panama City campus will resume the series of face-to-face Nuclear Medicine and Science camps that last took place in 2019. But following the success of last summer’s online version, which attracted national attention, the campus’ STEM Institute … Continue reading →

I have a dilemma. I teach a two-semester introductory calculus-based physics course at my university. While I usually have a few first-year physics majors among the 40-80 students in my classes, most are in other math-intensive STEM majors like engineering, … Continue reading →

By now, we should all agree that online science instruction stinks. Students and faculty are thrilled to be returning to face-to-face classrooms this fall for many reasons. One of them is that the students from disadvantaged backgrounds learn more poorly … Continue reading →