May 2006 - Mike Dubson wins the Excellence in Undergraduate Physics Teaching Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers.

May 2006 - PhET wins the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) 2006 MERLOT Classics and Editor's Choice Awards!

  April 2006 - NSF annouces 5 year, 2.5 Million dollar funding for the LA-TEST project (Valerie Otero, PI).  Program is designed to develop discipline-based assessment instruments to evaluate effectiveness of the Learning assistant model of science teacher recruitment and training.

April 2006 - Mary Nelson (Applied Mathematics) has been awarded the the John and Mercedes Peebles Innovation in Education Award, recognizing her unique commitment to students demonstrated through innovations in education

March 2006 - Featured PhysTEC University: Colorado “Learning Assistants” Make a Big Difference.


last update – 27-May-2006