AAPT Update 2001 Number 9
The following message is from the Executive Office of the American
Association of Physics Teachers, College Park, Maryland.
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1. BARBARA LOTZE SCHOLARSHIP FOR FUTURE TEACHERS
2. BALLOTS DUE BY NOVEMBER 1 FOR ELECTIONS TO AAPT NATIONAL OFFICE
3. AAPT MEMBER WINS 2001 NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS
4. AAPT JOB CENTER AT THE 124th AAPT NATIONAL MEETING
5. THE ONLINE NOVEMBER 2001 ISSUE OF AMERICAN JOURNAL OF
PHYSICS IS NOW AVAILABLE
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1. BARBARA LOTZE SCHOLARSHIP FOR FUTURE TEACHERS
The AAPT Executive Board is offering a $2,000 scholarship for future
high-school physics teachers for which all materials, including letters of
recommendation, are due by December 1 and will be considered for
recommendation at the following January 2002 meeting of the AAPT Executive
Board. For more detailed information go to www.aapt.org/pdfs/lotze.pdf.
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2. BALLOTS DUE BY NOVEMBER 1 FOR ELECTION TO AAPT NATIONAL OFFICE
Recently, AAPT members should have received ballots in the mail for the
2002 AAPT National Elections. Please take a moment to fill them out and
return them by November 1, 2001. For information on the candidates got to
http://aapt.org/aaptgeneral/2002candi.html.
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3. AAPT MEMBER WINS 2001 NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS
Congratulations to Carl Wieman of the University of Colorado at Boulder,
an AAPT member who is part of a team of physicists who will share the 2001
Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on creating the first Bose-Einstein
condensates -the so-called fifth state of matter-in the laboratory. For
more detailed information go to
http://www.aapt.org/aaptgeneral/wieman.html.
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4. AAPT JOB CENTER AT THE 124th AAPT NATIONAL MEETING
The 124th AAPT National Meeting in Philadelphia, PA January 19-23 will
feature an on-site job center. For further information go to
http://www.aapt.org/job_center/jobs.html.
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5. THE ONLINE NOVEMBER 2001 ISSUE OF AMERICAN JOURNAL OF
PHYSICS IS NOW AVAILABLE
The latest edition of the American Journal of Physics is now available
online at http://ojps.aip.org/ajp/.
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