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 Elon 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.