Forum on Education News

FEd Program Committee

If you have suggestions for topics for FEd sessions at the March or April 2009 meetings, please contact Peter Collings (pcollin1@swarthmore.edu), chair of the Program Committee, as soon as possible.

FEd Nominating Committee

If you would like to become a member of the FEd Nominating Committee, which nominates candidates for the FEd Executive Committee or would like to nominate someone to be a candidate for the FEd executive committee, please contact Ernest Malamud, chair of the Nominating Committee, at Malamud@foothill.net.

FEd Fellowships

Each year the Forum on Education nominates APS members for Fellowship.

If you have a colleague who has in their career made substantive developments in Physics Education (undergraduate, graduate, K-12, informal science education, mentoring, education policy, textbooks, etc.) please consider nominating her or him for Fellowship.

The Fellowship website, with information and instructions, is http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/

The next deadline for Fellowship nominations will be in late March or early April, 2009.

The members of the 2008 FEd Fellowship committee are:

  • Paula Heron, University of Washington
  • Luz Martinez-Miranda, University of Maryland
  • Bruce Sherwood, North Carolina State University
  • Howard Matis, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
  • David Haase, North Carolina State University (chair)