Edward Redish

Edward Redish is Professor of Physics a the University of Maryland in College Park. He received his undergraduate degree Magna Cum Laude from Princeton University and his PH.D. in theoretical nuclear physics from M.I.T. in 1968. He has been at the University of Maryland ever since, and served as Chairman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy there from 1982-1985. His research in nuclear theory emphasized the theory of reactions and the quantum few-body problem. As a nuclear theorist he served on the National Nuclear Science Advisory Committee and served as Chair of the Program Committee for the Indiana Cyclotron. Since 1982 he has been actively involved in the subject of physics education using the computer. He was founder and co-principal investigator of the Maryland University Project in Physics Education and Technology (CUPLE). Dr. Redish is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the AAAS. He has received awards for his work in education from the Washington Academy of Sciences, the Maryland Association for Higher Education, Dickinson College, Vanderbilt University, and the Robert A. Millikan Medal from the AAPT. He is currently serving as U.S. Representative to the International Commission on Physics Education. He is the editor of the physics education supplement to the American Journal of Physics. He is a member of the Activity-Based Physics development team, currently developing The Physics Suite for John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Currently he is doing research on student epistemologies and expectations in university physics and student difficulties in understanding quantum mechanics. He is co-PI of the project studying the algebra-based introductory physics classes entitled: Learning to Learn Science: Meta-learning in introductory physics for bioscience majors, with David Hammer.