Educational Outreach Director and Postdoc in PER: University of Colorado at Boulder
The AMO Physics Frontier Center (PFC) at JILA and the Physics Education Research (PER) Group at the University of Colorado at Boulder are collaborating to support a physics education outreach program. A two-year Research Associate (postdoctoral) position is available for someone to direct the outreach efforts of the PFC and conduct research on student learning in these environments.
The position will be jointly supervised by Prof. Noah Finkelstein, from the PER Group and Prof. Eric Cornell of the PFC.
The goal of the program is to establish informal science programs with local schools serving populations that are typically underrepresented in science, collaborate with other Physics Frontier Centers, communicate current physics research to the general public and concomitantly research and evaluate these outreach programs using cutting-edge physics education research methods.
The successful applicant will be responsible for preparing graduate students and postdoctoral research assistants within JILA and the Physics Department at CU Boulder to present science activities at local middle and high schools, coordinating with teachers and administrators at local schools to establish forums for these and other outreach activities, developing methods for communicating with the public, and researching & evaluating these efforts. In addition to creating and studying outreach programs, the candidate will collaborate with other Physics Frontiers Centers to present information on these centers at national conferences and work with outreach coordinators from other centers on projects of mutual interest.
More information at:
www.jobsatcu.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=64745
Review begins May 15. Position starts summer (or possibly fall) 2011.
