The US is falling behind other countries in standardized test scores.
Surely this story is familiar to you by now. I’ve been hearing it most of my life. So much so that you have to wonder how US students can ever hope to compete with the test-taking all-stars in China, Korea, and India.
My own experience teaching [...]

Update: Our exhibit won a $500 prize
My research group made a presentation for UW-Madison’s Engineering Expo this year. It included a talk about our Large Hadron Collider research and a mock-collider to demostrate the concept of beam collisions. Our demo was made of a large half-cylinder. On the back of the cylinder we had mounted [...]

I passed my PhD Qualifying exams and have gained Advanced Graduate Status.