The following awards were presented at the AAPT Winter Meeting in Orlando, January 4–7, 2014
The Oersted Medal for 2014 was presented to Dean Zollman in recognition of his significant contributions to physics education research and mentoring of a generation of PER researchers. Zollman earned his BS and MS in physics from Indiana University, Bloomington. His PhD in theoretical nuclear physics was earned at the University of Maryland, College Park. He started his career as assistant professor at Kansas State University in 1970, becoming associate professor (1977), professor (1982), Distinguished University Teaching Scholar (1997), University Distinguished Professor (2001), and head of the Department of Physics and William and Joan Porter Professor from 2001 to 2011.
Zollman has achieved many of the milestones considered indicative of an intellectual giant in the physics education field—rising up the academic ladder to spend over 30 years as a full professor, authoring an extensive record...