Anthony Crider, assistant professor of physics, was awarded “Best Pedagogical Paper” at a sectional meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers held at Duke University on March 11th and 12th. The award was for a talk entitled “Astronomy in the Hot Seat” that he gave at a prior meeting and includes funding to support the presentation of a similar talk at a national conference.
Crider attended the meeting with ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ physics majors, Michelle Snyder and John Tumbleston. While there, they toured the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, the Duke Free Electron Laser, and the Quantum Optics Laboratory.