Research Experience for Teachers 2000
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The 2000 Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program participants were (from left to right):
- Nicole Pasquariello Lazor - Lansing Middle School, Lansing, NY
- Sally Horak - Cortland Junior Senior High School, Cortland, NY
- Valerie White - Ithaca City School District, Ithaca, NY
- Susan Danskin - DeWitt Middle School, Ithaca, NY
- Stephen Zielinski - South Seneca Jr/Sr High School, Ovid, NY
The teachers spent most of their time in CCMR's Shared Experimental Facilities. The RET program also included opportunities for the teachers to attend research talks, meet with faculty members and graduate students, and tour other research facilities on the Cornell campus.
The 2000 RET program ran from July 5 - August 11 and included the following activities:
- Building Molecules (Graduate student Josh Pomeroy)
- Tour of Ward Center for Nuclear Sciences (Dr. Kenan Unlü)
- Chemistry and Our Climate (Graduate student Josh Pomeroy)
- Edible Glass (Graduate student Josh Pomeroy)
- Fiber Optics and Introduction to Diffraction (Dr. Aaron Couture)
- Tour of Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source
- States of Matter (Graduate student Jennifer Gaudioso)
- X-Ray Diffraction Facility
- Polymers (Graduate student Emily Hackett)
- Electronic Packaging Tour (Alex Deyhim)
- Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy of Highly Branched Polymers (Graduate students Samantha Glazier and Jennifer Gaudioso)
- Computing and PowerPoint Training
- Electron and Optical Microscopy Facility
- Statistics (Prof. Melissa Hines)
- Chemistry and Physics of Single Molecules (Graduate student Jennifer Gaudioso)
- "Applications of Elementary Mechanics in Biology and Medicine" (Prof. Rob Thorne)
- Blue Hot Mamas (Dr. Erika Mershod and Graduate students Karen Daniels and Samantha Glazier)
- UHV-STEM Laboratory
- Science of Snowflakes (Prof. Paulette Clancy)
- Smartsensors (Graduate student Jennifer Gaudioso)
- Tour of Cornell Nanofabrication Facility
- Ion Beam Analytical Facility
- MODICUM - Student opportunities in scientific journalism (Graduate student Benjamin Jantzen)
At the end of the RET program, teachers are expected to develop a materials science related lesson plan. These lesson plans, which we refer to as modules, have been as varied as the teacher that have participated and have ranged in topic from geology to biodegradable polymers to balsa wood bridges. The full list of RET developed modules can be found on our RET Modules page.
