From: Phil deHaan (dehp@calvin.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 09:57:04 EDT
April 29, 2003 == MEDIA ADVISORY
Calvin College physics professor David Van Baak is the 2003 winner of a
Physics Education Distinguished Service Award.
The award is presented annually "in recognition of dedication and significant
contributions to physics education" by the Michigan Section of the American
Association of Physics Teachers (MIAAPT).
http://www.aapt.org/Sections/officers.cfm?section=Michigan
Interestingly the MIAAPT award program is sponsored by Ann Arbor-based Arbor
Scientific, Inc. That company makes a variety of physics-education equipment,
including a spectrum demonstration kit that Van Baak invented for a talk he
once gave at an MIAAPT meeting.
The kit, which sells for $19 and is described by Van Baak as "very simple but
visually pleasing," allows physics teachers to use their overhead projector to
project a broad, bright spectrum of light onto a classroom wall. It includes
color filters to show color addition and subtraction and an "anti-slit" mask to
show complementary colors.
Van Baak is known across the state for his work in physics education.
"David has regularly made presentations at meetings (of the MIAAPT)," says
Paul Zitzewitz of the University of Michigan at Dearborn. "These presentations
are models of innovation and elegance and have been appreciated by teachers in
high schools, community colleges and universities."
For a pic of the award see
http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2002_03/vanbaak.htm
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