Larry Cain, Davidson College, Past Chair of FEd

As the past chair of the Forum on Education, which means I am chair of the FEd Fellowship Committee this year, I want to encourage you to think about nominating persons this year for the APS education-related awards under FEd’s care and for APS Forum on Education Fellowship. Specifically, please consider the Excellence in Physics Education Award - to recognize and honor a team or group of individuals (such as a collaboration) or, exceptionally, a single individual, who have exhibited a sustained commitment to excellence in physics education; the Jonathan F. Reichert and Barbara Wolff-Reichert Award for Excellence in Advanced Laboratory Instruction - to recognize and honor outstanding achievement in teaching, sustaining (for at least four years), and enhancing an advanced undergraduate laboratory course or courses at US institutions; and the APS Forum on Education Fellowships – to recognize exceptional contributions to physics education. Fellowship is a distinct honor signifying recognition by one's professional peers. Nomination instructions for these two awards and fellowship can be found at the APS Honors website: https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/index.cfm. Nomination deadlines are 6/3/2019. Please consider a diverse set of people to nominate, including women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and people at smaller institutions.

The selection committees typically receive a small number of nominations for these awards and for fellowship. Please consider taking the time to prepare a nomination. Nominations typically include: A suggested citation, a nomination letter, two to four letters of support, a CV, and most important publications and reprints. The time spent to prepare a nomination is well worthwhile to those nominated, to the Forum and to APS.

The American Physical Society's (APS) Committee on Education (COE) seeks to recognize excellence in undergraduate physics education and support best practices in education at the undergraduate level by accepting applications from physics departments and/or undergraduate-serving programs in physics for the COE Award for Improving Undergraduate Physics Education. All programs that have a significant impact on undergraduate physics students are eligible to apply. Application instructions can be found at https://www.aps.org/programs/education/undergrad/faculty/award.cfm and the deadline is 6/15/2019.

We all know of deserving colleagues for these awards and for fellowship, but we must submit nominations for them to be considered.

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