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Pollock's teaching methods are being nationally lauded this month. At a ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, Pollock was named a 2013 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. The awards
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recognize the most outstanding undergraduate educators in the country. Pollock is the second CU-Boulder professor to win a U.S. Professor of the Year Award. Nobel laureate Carl Wieman, also a physics professor, was honored with the designation in 2004.
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Pollock, a 53-year-old Boulder resident, is doing his part. He is in Washington, D.C., today to receive a 2013 U.S. Professor of the Year award by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of
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Pollock investigates and develops curricular and pedagogical reforms and assessments in upper-division physics courses. He investigates impacts of established reforms in large lecture introductory courses, including the use of
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as an assistant professor, where he was promoted to associate professor in 2000 and to full professor in 2009. In the early aughts (2000s) he shifted his primary focus to physics education research. In 2003 he co-founded the
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University of Colorado Boulder physics Professor Steven Pollock has been named a 2013 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of
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Pollock began teaching at CU-Boulder in 1993, when he took a job as an assistant professor in the field of theoretical nuclear physics.
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In addition, Pollock is a President's Teaching Scholar, a multi-campus CU group dedicated to the scholarship of learning.
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Institute for Nuclear Theory from 1990 to 1992. In 1993 he became a senior scientist at NIKHEF before joining the
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Dr. Steven Pollock is Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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This article is about the American professor of physics. For the mycologist, see
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Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in STEM Education, Innovation and Research
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in introductory physics", with graduate TA training, and use of
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
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Particle Physics for Non-physicists: a Tour of the Microcosmos
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Steven Pollock's website at University of Colorado Boulder
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He was a postdoctoral fellow in nuclear physics at the
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respectively in 1984 and 1987 for his thesis, entitled
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Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica, Amsterdam
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Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica (NIKHEF)
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Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
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Steven Hayden Pollock

American
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University
Physics
Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica, Amsterdam
University of Washington
University of Colorado Boulder
Doctoral advisor
John Dirk Walecka
physics
University of Colorado Boulder
physics education research
nuclear theory
U.S. Professor of the Year
Sc.B.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S.
Ph.D.
Stanford University
John Dirk Walecka
Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica (NIKHEF)
Amsterdam
University of Washington's
University of Colorado at Boulder
learning assistant programme
undergraduate learning assistants
ISBN
1565856244

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