Projects

1988 ◽  
Vol 81 (8) ◽  
pp. 695-700
Keyword(s):  
School Districts ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
State University ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
Teacher Nominations ◽  
National Science ◽  
Outstanding Teacher

During the summer of 1987, the first part of a National Science Foundation honors workshop for secondary school mathematics teachers was conducted at the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg. The objective of the workshop was to introduce select· ed teachers to the concepts and techniques of mathematical modeling and to encourage and aid them in actually preparing modeling exercises for incorporation into their classroom teaching. Through a system of planned networking, their experiences are shared with colleagues in the region. The thirty-five participants from the southcentral Pennsylvania region were selected on the basis of outstanding teacher nominations by their school districts.

My Life With Erwin: The Beginning of an Atom-Probe Legacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-279
Author(s):  
John A. Panitz
Keyword(s):  
Field Emission ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Atom Probe ◽  
Single Atom ◽  
National Bureau ◽  
State University ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
Probe Field ◽  
National Science ◽  
Field Ion Microscope

AbstractThe atom-probe field ion microscope was introduced in 1967 at the 14th Field Emission Symposium held at the National Bureau of Standards (now, NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The atom-probe field ion microscope was, and remains, the only instrument capable of determining “the nature of one single atom seen on a metal surface and selected from neighboring atoms at the discretion of the observer”. The development of the atom-probe is a story of an instrument that one National Science Foundation (NSF) reviewer called “impossible because single atoms could not be detected”. It is also a story of my life with Erwin Wilhelm Müller as his graduate student in the Field Emission Laboratory at the Pennsylvania State University in the late 1960s and his strong and volatile personality, perhaps fostered by his pedigree as Gustav Hertz’s student in the Berlin of the 1930s. It is the story that has defined by scientific career.

Projects: Mathematical JavaBeans

2001 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 240
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
National Science Foundation Grant ◽  
State University ◽  
Java Applet ◽  
National Science ◽  
Java Beans

Most mathematics teachers have developed a few favorite mathematics activities that are effective in teaching. Taken together, these activities should serve as a vast resource for all teachers of mathematics if they could be furnished in an easily accessible manner. For many activities, turning the activity into a Java applet that can be posted on the Internet is a way to make these activities more accessible. With the help of a National Science Foundation Grant (DUE-9950714), the Mathematical Java-Beans project at Emporia State University is developing tools to make this process easier.

THE FRONTIERS OF MINING GEOPHYSICS

Geophysics ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 878-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. H. Ward ◽  
R. E. Campbell ◽  
J. D. Corbett ◽  
G. W. Hohmann ◽  
C. K. Moss ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
State University ◽  
Nonrenewable Resources ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
National Science ◽  
Critical Problems ◽  
Lake City ◽  
Research Frontiers

The RANN Division (Research Applied to National Needs) of the National Science Foundation has embarked upon a program of encouragement and sponsorship of research on exploration for and exploitation of nonenergy nonrenewable resources. To define critical problems requiring research, RANN is sponsoring a series of workshops wherein prominent members of industry, academia, and government assemble to debate the issues and produce lists of subjects requiring research. The first workshop in this series, entitled “Workshop on Research Frontiers in Exploration for Nonrenewable Resources”, was held at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, October 11 to 13, 1976. The second workshop, “Geophysics Applied to Detection and Delineation of Nonenergy Nonrenewable Resources”, reported here, was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, December 6 to 8, 1976.

Projects: PRIME-TEAM

2001 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 336
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
School Level ◽  
National Science ◽  
Team Project ◽  
Academic Year

The PRIME-TEAM project (Promoting Excellence in Iowa Mathematics education through Teacher Enhancement and Exemplary Instructional Materials) was a professional development project for secondary school mathematics teachers in Iowa. Its primary goals were to help teachers become leaders in their schools and to foster school-level educational change. The project evolved from a smaller National Science Foundation (NSF) project, which involved nine Iowa schools in 1996–1997, to qualify as a NSF Local Systemic Change (LSC) project during the 1998–1999 academic year.

scholarly journals Chapter 1. Remarks on the opening of the historic place names of Franz Josef Land workshop, Oslo, Norway, 12-13 May 2015

2015 ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Susan Barr
Keyword(s):  
National Science Foundation ◽  
High Arctic ◽  
State University ◽  
Place Names ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Franz Josef Land ◽  
National Science ◽  
Penn State ◽  
The U.S

Remarks at the opening of a workshop, sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation, and held in Oslo, Norway, from 12-13 May 2015, to discuss the historic place names of the High Arctic archipelago of Franz Josef Land. The visiting students from Penn State University, none of whom had ever before been to Europe, were anxious to hear how Dr. Barr, a native of the United Kingdom, had come to Norway and made a life for herself in a different country with a different language, as a female in a then-largely male universe of polar research, and, in a nation of hunters, as a vegetarian.

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