Project Title: An Initiative to Enhance Physics Education in Buffalo-Area Inner City High Schools and to Highlight the Social Permeation of Physics
Recipient(s): Harsh Deep Chopra
Affiliation: State University of New York at Buffalo
Description: The objective of the proposal is to enhance physics education/awareness at the high school level and to highlight the permeation of physics in society through the development of a prototype "Electromagnetism Module" aimed at eleventh and twelfth graders. The module will be offered at SUNY Buffalo through summer internships to selected students from Buffalo-area inner city high schools over two summer sessions - August 1998 and July 1999. The proposal is a cooperative effort between the PI and Buffalo-area Engineering Awareness for Minorities (BEAM), a non-profit and voluntary organization located on the campus of SUNY at Buffalo.
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