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Student Perspectives on Traditional Pedagogy Used in Graduate Physics Coursework
Kevin Coldren, Nkodia Ngondala, Audrey Claar +2
Graduate programs in STEM disciplines are central to preparing future researchers and professors. Program requirements for students often include taking several graduate-level cour…
CURE-like, not cure-all: Varying broad relevance in experimentation labs produces similar student outcomes
Elly Markert, Mike Verostek, Matthew Dew +6
Physics labs that engage students in practices authentic to experimental physics (experimentation-based labs) are being implemented to modernize the undergraduate physics curriculu…
Investigating Opportunities for Growth and Increased Diversity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering Education in the U.S. based on an Analysis of the Current Educational Landscape
A. R. Piña, Shams El-Adawy, Mike Verostek +2
Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE) is rapidly gaining interest across a wide range of disciplines. As QISE continues to evolve, engineering will play an increasingl…
Landscape of Quantum Information Science and Engineering Education: From Physics Foundations to Interdisciplinary Frontiers
A. R. Piña, Shams El-Adawy, Mike Verostek +8
Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE) is rapidly gaining interest from those within many disciplines and higher education needs to adapt to the changing landscape. Alt…
Modeling when and how physics PhD students search for a research group: the role of interests and prior research experiences in timely group integration
Mike Verostek, Casey W. Miller, Benjamin M. Zwickl
Studying the factors that influence the quality of physics PhD students' doctoral experiences, especially those that motivate them to stay or leave their programs, is critical for…
Physics PhD student perspectives on the importance and difficulty of finding a research group
Mike Verostek, Casey W. Miller, Benjamin M. Zwickl
Joining a research group is one of the most important events on a graduate student's path to becoming an independent physics researcher and earning a PhD. However, graduate student…
Beyond The Big Bang Theory: Revealing the everyday research lives of theoretical physics faculty
Mike Verostek, Molly Griston, Jesus Botello +1
"So what do you do? I mean, what do you actually do?" This is one of the most common questions one theoretical physicist receives from her students, and is representative of a comm…
Making expert processes visible: how and why theorists use assumptions and analogies in their research
Mike Verostek, Molly Griston, Jesus Botello +1
Understanding how physicists solve problems can guide the development of methods that help students learn and improve at solving complex problems. Leveraging the framework of cogni…
Analyzing admissions metrics as predictors of graduate GPA and whether graduate GPA mediates PhD completion
Mike Verostek, Casey Miller, Benjamin Zwickl
An analysis of 1,955 physics graduate students from 19 PhD programs shows that undergraduate grade point average predicts graduate grades and PhD completion more effectively than G…
Exploring extra dimensions with scalar waves
Katherine Jones-Smith, Harsh Mathur, Michael Verostek
This paper provides a pedagogical introduction to the physics of extra dimensions focussing on the ADD, Randall-Sundrum and DGP models. In each of these models, the familiar partic…