TITLE: Undergraduate Research at Guilford College: teaching students to be physicists.

SPEAKER: Professor Rexford Adelberger,

TIME: Thursday, September 17, 1998, starting at 4:00 PM

PLACE: George P. Williams, Jr. Lecture Hall, (Olin 101)

For the past 20 years, Guilford College has used undergraduate research as part of the teaching effort. We expect our students to learn to design and carry out their own research projects rather than working as cogs in ongoing research projects directed by faculty. Students begin learning to take part in research during their first year in the physics program. Our non-traditional physics curriculum is centered about teaching students to do physics as well as to learn about physics. This program has been very successful. I will talk about the curriculum, give examples of students and their research projects and show what our graduates do after Guilford.