From 2010 to 2012 Better Physics supported efforts to use the research results of modern astronomy and astrophysics to enrich undergraduate physics instruction. This site reports several efforts to this end.
- June 17-22, 2012 at Colby College in Waterville, ME there was a five-day Gordon Research Conference on Astronomy’s Discoveries and Physics Education.
- February 27, 2012 at the March Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) there was a session of invited speakers talking about “Astronomy’s Detectors and Physics Education.“
- February 7, 2012 at the winter meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) there was a session of invited papers, “Using the Riches of Astronomy to Teach Physics.“
- In May 2012 the American Journal of Physics (AJP) published a theme issue devoted to ways to use the research results of astronomy to enrich undergraduate physics instruction.
- In July 2011 at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, there was a three-day topical workshop, “Using Astronomy to Teach Physics” (UATP).
- In May 2011 at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Boston, there was a special session of invited papers, “Using the Discoveries of Astronomy to Teach Physics.”