Exam day today. When I arrived at DUML this morning there was a list of quotes on the board — apparently the group needed some comic relief during last nights study session. This is another example of the community which develops here in paradise as sharp students work intensely to master cool physics [...]
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Physhead Quotes
Posted in Demographics, Physics Phun, Student Population, tagged Physheads on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gender and Physics
Posted in Demographics, Student Population, tagged Expectations in Education, Gender and Physics on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This fall, my DUML physics class was comprised of ten (10) students, and for the first time since I have been here, they were all female. I have to say that it was both encouraging, because women are typically under-represented in the physical sciences, and different, because their experience and interaction with physics was not [...]
