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Mayhew & Finkelstein win 2009 Campus Diversity Award

Dr's Mayhew and Finkelstein won a 2009 Campus Diversity Award for the Partners in Informal Science in the Community (PISEC) program

 

JILA PFC PISEC Program

The JILA Physics Frontier Center Partnerships for
Informal Science Education in the Community (PISEC)
Program provides opportunities for university students
(undergraduates, graduate students, and post docs) to teach inquiry-based science activities to K-12 populations under represented in science, such as Hispanic, African American, and economically disadvantaged youth. read more »

The assessment component of PISEC includes research on effects of the program on the children and also the university students through a partnership with the Physics Education Research (PER) group PER@C. PER has been gaining momentum in recent years, including increased funding and a Physical Review journal line. At PISEC, we conduct cutting edge research on after school science outreach programs, which have not been well studied. Assessments from our pilot program have been very promising. read more »

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