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FoREM: Bringing modern research to the physics classroom

Posted December 12, 2017 by Guest Contributor

The author is ScIU guest writer Corrine Deegan, a graduate student in  IU’s Department of Physics. What do you remember the most from your pre-college physics lessons? Perhaps you learned something about how every action has an equal and opposite reaction, or perhaps you were lucky enough to be shocked by a Van der Graaf generator. Upon… Read more »

What are scientific facts?

Posted October 31, 2017 by Chris ChoGlueck

Whether it’s the “alternative facts” from politicians or the “fake news” from the media, facts are at the fore. While they can’t agree on much else, politicians, pundits, and the public do agree (mostly) about facts: facts are separate from fictions, they are reliable and authoritative, and, most importantly, they have something to do with… Read more »

How to get the best instruction for you

Posted August 22, 2017 by Sara Driskell

A stack of books lay on a desk in front of a blackboard. On top of the books are three apples. Next to the books are a pair of scissors and many pieces of chalk.

There is a dizzying array of things to think about when signing up for classes and again later when you’re thinking about what to keep the first week of classes. You may have to consider requirements for your major or for the Common Ground and Shared Goals curricula at IU. You may try to sign up… Read more »

The smell of chemistry

Posted August 1, 2017 by Victoria Kohout

Chocolate chip cookies fresh from the oven. Your grandmother’s perfume. Newly cut grass. Each of the listed descriptions is extremely different but can be linked together by one fundamental thread–smell. Smell or olfaction is an essential sense in everyday life that helps guide what we eat and how we perceive the world around us. It… Read more »

Makerspaces and their growing role in STEM education

Posted May 2, 2017 by Kerri Donohue

Dr. Maltese is working with two undergraduate students in the MILL. He is showing them some of the tools available so that they may work on their projects.

As a young child, years before the first Harry Potter book was published, I sat at my mother’s kitchen table mixing together anything I could find into a tall glass and calling it a potion. Now, this was just pure imagination and I’m sure that none of my concoctions were palatable, possibly even so bad… Read more »

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