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UPCOMING!

April 19, 2008:
Second COLA Workshop!

Location:
Verbum Dei High School

COLA:
COSM Outreach to Los Angeles
Physics and Mathematics Workshops for LA Area High School Teachers

What is COLA?

COLA is a collaboration between high school physics teachers in Virginia and Southern California to find hands-on and minds-on activities for students to improve their learning in physics and mathematics. Teachers work together in workshops that meet during the school year at an LA-area university. Materials and stipends are provided. COLA is sponsored by the Hampton University Center for the study of the Origin and Structure of Matter with the collaboration of the QuarkNet center at the University of California at Los Angeles, the QuarkNet center at the University of California at Irvine, and the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary at Loyola Marymount University.


What are the benefits to Los Angeles physics teachers?
  • Activities to help students succeed in mathematics and science
  • Possible recertification points
  • A collaborative network with research physicists and high school physics teachers
  • Professional development
  • A chance to find new ways to improve practical physics education
  • Connections to cutting-edge physics
  • Stipends and materials provided

What next?

2007-2008 Schedule:

Date Event Location
Mon 17 Dec 2007 Application Deadline send by fax or mail
Sat 02 Feb 2008 First Workshop Verbum Dei High School
Sat 19 Apr 2007 Second Workshop Verbum Dei High School

Follow-up events and workshops are planned for summer 2008 and the 2008-9 achool year.


Expressions of Interest and Queries:

Michael Gutperle, University of California at Los Angeles
E-Mail gutperle@physics.ucla.edu
Tel 310-206-3471

Ken Cecire, Hampton University
E-mail ken.cecire@hamptonu.edu
Tel 757-728-6533

Kris Whelan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
E-mail kkwhelan@lbl.gov
Tel 510-486-6610

Marilyn Ficht, RSHM, Loyola Marymount University
E-mail mficht@lmu.edu
Tel 310-641-4682


Application:

Applications for COLA 2007-2008 are now closed.

Please send queries regarding completed Applications to the attention of Mu-Chun Chen at:

Department of Physics and Astronomy
4129 Frederick Reines Hall
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-4575

Fax: 949-824-2174
E-mail: mcchen@fnal.gov

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Supported by the National Science Foundation
and the US Department of Energy, Office of Science.
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