Regional counselors in physics

JAN 01, 1965

Ralph Dressel, professor of physics at New Mexico State University, serves as the regional counselor in physics for New Mexico. The joint AAPT‐AIP Regional Counselor Program is centered in the American Institute of Physics, where the coordination of the work of the counselors is carried out by William C. Kelly, AIP director of education and manpower, with the assistance of Mrs. Gertrude Martin.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3047157

Ralph Dressel

Since its inception in October 1961 as a joint project of the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics, the Regional Counselor Program has directed its attention to the complex problems involved in the effective presentation of physics in the high schools. Under this program, physicists from local universities or industrial laboratories, one for each state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, are appointed to serve as regional counselors. Each of the fifty‐two counselors serves voluntarily, devoting as much time as he can to establishing contacts and responding to invitations from high schools in his region.

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References

1. First Regional Counselor Conference, Physics Today, November 1963, p. 41.
2. Physics: Education, Employment, and Financial Support–A Statistical Handbook, American Institute of Physics, New York (1964).
3. Recommendations of the Second Ann Arbor Conference on Undergraduate Curricula for Physics Majors, Am. J. Phys. 31, 328 (1963).https://doi.org/AJPIAS

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Ralph Dressel, New Mexico State University, New Mexico.