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About the Program Indiana University of Pennsylvania invites you to take advantage of the Visiting Scientist/ Mathematician Program offered by the Teacher Education Center for Science, Mathematics, and Technology. A group of faculty members from a variety of disciplines would like to visit your school or invite you and your students to the IUP campus to participate in science and mathematics demonstrations and discussions. The Visiting Scientists/Mathematician Program aims to strengthen our ties with the area schools and communities. We want to create opportunities for you to utilize the considerable resources available within our college. By working cooperatively with you and your students, we hope to make science and mathematics even more accessible, inviting, and attractive. We hope to capture students’ interest in the sciences or awaken and nurture their yet undiscovered potentials and talents. Who Are the Visiting Scientists and Mathematicians? Faculty members from seven departments in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics have prepared a wide variety of topics from several disciplines. Some of these are designed to be appropriate for all age groups. Please choose one or two topics and email Dr. Brian Sharp (bds@iup.edu) to schedule a presentation. We can visit your school or accommodate you on the IUP campus. Please choose your preferred presentation as well as an alternate, should your first choice already be booked. The Program Coordinator is available to assist you in contacting the faculty member whose topic you choose and in making arrangements to make the visit pleasant and informative.
Our faculty members will be happy to talk with your students individually to encourage and counsel them about deciding on their choice of a college career and, hopefully, reinforce their enthusiasm for the sciences or mathematics.
Presentations for professional development also are available. These presentations are designed as training sessions for teachers and can be scheduled through the Visiting Scientists and Mathematicians Program. PRESENTERS and PROGRAM TOPICS Mathematics Dr. Rick Adkins – Mathematics (J/S) Exploring Geometry with Origami (S) What's in your cells: Algorithms for DNA Sequencing (J/S) "Chance of a lifetime": Math and Medicine
Dr. Kimberly Burch – Mathematics (S) Games and Graph Theory
Dr. Yong Colen – Mathematics (E/J/S) Problem Solving in Mathematics (J/S) Mathematical Morsels through History (S) TI Simulation to Estimate Pi (S) Using Geometer’s Sketchpad to Solve Quadratic Equations
Dr. Brian Sharp – Mathematics (E) Bugs and Butterflies (E) Kids and Cookies: Fun with Fractions (E) Shape Safari – Using Digital Cameras to Capture Geometric Shapes (E) Symmetry and Shapes with Digital Cameras (S) Cost of Smoking
Dr. Yu-Ju Kuo – Mathematics (S) Beauty of Mathematics: Fractals and Chaos
Dr. John Lattanzio – Mathematics (J/S) Coloring in Math Class
Dr. Daniel Look – Mathematics (S) Beauty from Chaos (S) Knot Your Average Math Talk
Dr. Tom Short – Mathematics (E) An Introduction to Tinkerplots (E) Off to the Frog Races, A Probability and Simulation Activity (E) The Typical Teddy Bear (E/J/S) The Pennsylvania Statistics Poster Contest (J/S) An Introduction to the Fathom Software Package
Dr. Gary Stoudt – Mathematics (E) Eureka: What Can Archimedes Do? (J) You Think You’ve Got it Bad? Algebra in the Days Before Algebra
Dr. Janet Walker – Mathematics (J/S) Geometer’s Sketchpad (J/S) Geometry Scavenger Hunt with Digital Camera (J/S) Graphing Calculators (PD) Using Technology in the Math Classroom
Sciences Dr. W. Barkley Butler – Biology (E/J/S) Ants All Around Us!! (S) Cancer: What is it? How do we get it? How can we treat it?
Ms. Holly Travis – Biology (J/S) Amazing Arthropods
Ms. Yvonne Branan – Geoscience (E) Eruptions and Lava Flows, A Hands-On Approach (S) Volcanology – A Hot Job!
Dr. Anne Kondo – Chemistry (E) The Chemistry of Eggs (J/S) The Day My Fridge Caught Fire
Dr. Kenneth Coles – Geoscience (E/J/S) Micrometerorology (E/J/S) Planetarium Shows (on campus only)
Dr. Feng Zhou – Physics
(S/PD)
Adventures in fiber optics: Lightwave
The University Founded in 1875, Indiana University of Pennsylvania draws its enrollment from nearly every state and from scores of foreign countries. With three campuses located in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains, IUP is the largest of the fourteen universities in the State System of Higher Education and the only one to grant doctoral degrees.
The university sustains a tradition of high academic quality at an affordable cost. In forty-five academic departments located within six colleges and two schools, IUP offers more than a hundred fields of study. Graduate programs in many professional and applied areas are available, as well as seven programs at the doctoral level. IUP’s internship program is among the Commonwealth’s largest, providing students professional experiences to supplement their classroom learning. For more information, please call us at 724-357-2600 or e-mail Dr. Brian Sharp (bds@iup.edu). |
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