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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please join us for the Physics Colloquium today, at<b> 3:45 PM</b> in The Robert Smith Seminar Room. There will be a reception at
<b>3:30PM</b> in the Atrium. Details concerning the talk are as follows: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Speaker</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">: Natasha Holmes (Cornell University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>3:45PM</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Place: 1080 Physics Research Building, The Robert Smith Seminar Room<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Title: Why Traditional Labs Fail (and What To Do About It)</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Abstract:
</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#555555">When you ask physicists to reflect on their intro labs, responses include “boring”, “forgettable”, or “cookbook.” What is so wrong with the traditional lab? In this talk, we’ll discuss research
that helps illuminate the problems with traditional labs and the impacts on students. We’ll then move on to solutions: how do we restructure labs to provide better learning opportunities for our students? We’ll discuss how we measure the impact of different
techniques, some tactics for using labs to teach experimentation and critical thinking skills, and some examples of restructured lab courses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#555555">Website</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#555555">: <a href="http://cperl.lassp.cornell.edu/"><span style="color:#BB0000">http://cperl.lassp.cornell.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The website for the colloquium is
<a href="https://physics.osu.edu/physics-colloquium-schedule"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://physics.osu.edu/physics-colloquium-schedule</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Also, there is the speaker/student discussion starting just after the colloquium, at 4:45pm in the Smith Seminar Room.</span><span style="font-family:Papyrus;color:#0070C0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Segoe Script";color:blue">Robin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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