What has G-PhAsER been up to?
April 25th, 2025: David wins graduate award
David won the Anderson-Pioletti Award, which recognizes a first or second year graduate student showing exceptional promise. Congratulations, David!
April 17th, 2025: Aiza wins undergraduate research award
Aiza won one of the Physics Department's SPARK Undergraduate Research awards at this year's annual award cermony. Congratulations, Aiza!
April 10th, 2025: Christopher passes oral exam
Christopher has successfully passed his oral exam and is now a PhD Candidate. Congratulations, Christopher!
April 8th, 2025: David receives NSF GFRP Honorable Mention
David was one of 3,000 students nationwide to be receive an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention. Congratulations, David, on this outstanding achievement!
April 7th, 2025: 4 undergraduate researchers present at CURO Symposium
Four members of G-PhAsER presented at the University of Georgia's undergraduate research symposium. Madison gave a talk titled "Evolving Teaching Methodologies of Physics Teaching Assistants in Introductory Lab Courses", Aiza gave a talk titled "Exploring Virtual Reality in STEM Education: Enhancing Student Understanding through Immersive Learning Environments", James presented a poster titled "Social Dynamics in Introductory Physics Classroom Predictive Analytics" and Kai presented a poster titled "Comparing Student Accuracy on Multiple-Choice and Complex Multiple-Choice Questions in Introductory Physics". Great work everyone!
March 17, 2025: Nick presents at APS Global Physics Summit
Nick gave a talk titled "Using large language models to summarize student feedback.
February 27, 2025: Nandana presents at the UGA Active Learning Summit
Nandana was a panelist for the Generative AI for Active Learning: Transforming Teaching Tasks session as part of UGA's Active Learning Summit.
February 3, 2025: Nick receives funding for iOLabs
Nick has been awarded funding from Franklin College to purchase a classroom set of iOLabs for Physics 1251, Introductory Studio Physics for Engineers I.
January 22, 2025: Nick gives seminar at RIT
Nick gave a seminar titled Transforming Physics Graduate Education: From Equitable Admissions to Student Success to the Center for Advancing Scholarship to Transform Learning at Rochester Institute of Technology.
January 20, 2025: Craig and Nandana publish second paper on changing career plans in STEM
As part of a UGA collaboration, Craig and Nandana published Switching within STEM: Examining the motivational concerns that college students report considering when changing career plans within STEM fields. in the Journal of Educational Psychology.
January 16, 2025: Nandana wins Franklin College teaching award
Nandana was selected as one of this year's Franklin College Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award winners. Congratulations, Nandana!
January 9, 2025: G-PhAsER hosts Eric Burkholder from Auburn University
Eric gave a seminar titled Dismantling structural barriers to participation in physics to the Scientists Engaged in Education Research group as part of his visit.
August 29, 2024: James wins CURO Research Award in support of research
James Squires won a CURO Research Award for Fall 2024. This award will support his research with Nandana and Nick into the social aspects of success in introductory physics.
August 21, 2024: Nandana wins an Active Learning Change Grant
Nandana along with collaborator Inseok Song have won a UGA Active Learning Change Grant related to using telescopes in introductory astronomy courses. Congratulations!
August 12, 2024: G-PhAsER hosts Eric Burkholder from Auburn University
Eric received an SEC Faculty Travel award to visit G-PhAsER. These awards are designed to build and strengthen collaborations between SEC universities.
July 7, 2024: G-PhAsER presents at AAPT and PERC
Christopher, David, and Nick presented three talks and five posters at the American Association of Physics Teachers' Summer Meeting and Physics Education Research Conference in Boston, MA.
June 6, 2024: Nick gives invited talk at APS meeting
Nick gave an invited talk at the 55th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. His talk was titled "Toward a More Equitable and Effective Physics Graduate Admissions Process".
June 3, 2024: Nandana gives talk at Tech Ed 2024
Nandana's invited talk is titled "Effective Active Learning: Exploring Both Challenges and Solutions." A recording is available at https://youtu.be/Gulx2yyKtyA?si=6y3UmTRsDO4Wlm7T.
April 15, 2024: G-PhAsER members present at the University System of Georgia's Teaching and Learning Conference
David's talk was Investigating Lab Teaching Quality of Graduate TAs as Novice Instructors, Nandana's infographic was Evaluating the impact of exam preparation strategies on student performance, Nick's infographic was Using generative artificial intelligence to make course materials more visually engaging in STEM courses, and Robin's infographic was Enhancing Astronomy Education: Demonstrating Astronomical Phenomena using Immersive 3D Learning Experiences.
April 13, 2024: G-PhAsER members present at SACS-AAPT
David, Robin, and Zain presented posters at the SACS-AAPT meeting at the University of South Carolina and also served as panelists for an activel learing workshop. David also won the best poster award for his poster about lab QR codes in Physics 1251. Congratulations!
April 11, 2024: Robin defends his master's thesis
Robin's thesis is titled Enhancing astronomy education with three-dimensional resources.
April 8, 2024: G-PhAsER members present posters at Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities Symposium
Madison Ogle presented How Do Physics Teaching Assistants Adapt Their Pedagogy as They Repeat Instruction? and James Squires presented Improving STEM Education with Student Outcome Predictive Analytics.
April 4, 2024: Nandana wins two awards
Nandana has won both the Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching award and the Office of Instruction's Creative Teaching award. Congratulations, Nandana!
March 4, 2024: Craig and Nandana publish paper on changing career plans in STEM
As part of a UGA collaboration, Craig and Nandana published Beyond STEM attrition: changing career plans within STEM fields in college is associated with lower motivation, certainty, and satisfaction about one’s career in the International Journal of STEM Education.
November 11, 2023: G-PhAsER members present at the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society meeting
David and Robin presented posters about their research, and Craig gave a talk about integrating computation into the physics curriculum at SESAPS.
