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CU PER group members Michael Fox, Alexandra Werth, Jessica Hoehn, and Heather Lewandowski have published a report of initial results on remote teaching of physics lab classes in Spring 2020 intended to aid instructors in planning for upcoming remote

With a new grant funded by the CARES Act, Heather Lewandowski, Alex Werth, Michael Fox, Jessica Hoehn, and Ben Pollard are studying the impact of remote physics labs on students' beliefs about experimental physics. In the press. 

Congratulations to Mike Bennett who received the Anne K. Heinz staff Award for Excellence in Outreach and Engagement for his work with PISEC.  Read more about it here: https://outreach.colorado.edu/news/article/bennett-others-honored-for-

Congrats to Steven Pollock, Steven Iona, Laurie S. Langdon, Valerie K. Otero, and Richard McCray for receiving the APS 2019 Excellence in Physics Education Award. "For the development of the Learning Assistant (LA)

Congratulations to Heather Lewandowski, recipient of the 2019 Reichert Award for Excellence in Advanced Laboratory Instruction "For systematic and scholarly transformation of advanced laboratories in physics, for building leading assessment tools of

Congratulations to the PhET Interactive Simulations team for receiving a $1.5 million Google.org grant.  Read more here. 

Congrats to Heather Lewandowski for receiving the 2018 Physics Department Outstanding Teacher of the Year award!

A STEM education project at the University of Colorado Boulder has earned one of its biggest accomplishments to date: It is one of six winners of the 2017 World Innovation Summit for Education (or, WISE) Award. This prestigious international

We are pleased to share that PISEC, the Partnerships for Informal Science Education in the Community, has been selected by the CU Boulder Outreach Committee as one of the recipients for 2017-2018 of the CU Boulder Outreach Awards!  The proposal

Former group member Daniel Reinholz, now an assistant professor of STEM education at San Diego State University, has been working with Niral Shah to develop the Equity Quantified in Participation (EQUIP) classroom observation tool. They will be