In May: "American Institute of Physics Recognizes Illinois Wesleyan." Oct: "Physics Professors Recognized for Efforts to Increase Understanding, Appreciation of Field," celebrating work with AAPT. Now APS: "Physics Department Awarded for Improving Undergraduate Physics Education"

If you have the capacity to do so, support us by becoming (or continuing as) a dues-paying member of AAPT and/or coming to our next national meeting, to enhance (and learn from) this community, as we piece together our next steps. #ITeachPhysics

You can't have science without support of the educational pathways that yield scientists (and science teachers). If you have the capacity to do so, support us by becoming a dues-paying member of AAPT. #ITeachPhysics

AAPT is now accepting presentations for #AAPTWM26! Learn more and submit a presentation today! Submission deadline is September 12, 2025. https://t.co/8gmUmvwpkU #AAPTConference #AAPTMeeting #CallforPresentations #ITeachPhysics #research #teaching

#ITeachPhysics #AAPTSM25

We’re all going to DC! Join us! #ITeachPhysics

Visiting U.S. Senate and House offices, in support of science and science education for AAPT. My sub-group: Prof. Eric Brewe (representing CU*iP conferences), Prof. Thomas Searles (representing NSBP), Dr. Mark Elsesser (Government Affairs, APS), and Ellie Clancy (Lot Sixteen)

Join AAPT's FREE Virtual Event, "Issue Briefing: The Future of Physics Education", on July 17, 12–1 pm ET. This event is designed for educators, advocates, funders, and anyone passionate about the future of undergraduate #STEMeducation. Register here: https://t.co/he3z6Iz8ZS

The highly visible issues that undoubtedly played a role in the CEO of this platform moving on, might prompt a critical mass of #ITeachPhysics to migrate....

Understand: (1) the journal chosen should be a match to the audience (not just a matter of overall "impact factor") and that (2) while the "half life" for citations on an article published on most journals is quite short, for the American Journal of Physics it is incredibly long!

We published this in the wrong place: should've been AJP: #ITeachPhysics "Observation of image pair creation and annihilation from superluminal scattering sources" Science advances 2 (4), e1501691

Actually, I could add a few more "Bragging Points" for Illinois Wesleyan -- but theirs will do for a start

5/5: These NSF grants were terminated. Are you connected with a foundation that might want to step in? I also, broadly, encourage corporate partnership with AAPT:

4/5: "Talent is evenly distributed, but opportunity is not." Young women tend to be more self-critical AND less encouraged to follow such interests. AAPT has partnered to encourage EVERYONE to give themselves permission to “like what they like” and to see themselves going on.

3/5: The “more mathematical” subfields of STEM have been much slower in showing improved reach towards EXPANDING our talent pool (Physics & Engineering degrees are ~ 20% women). Yet by 2030 the U.S. is on track to have more than half of advanced semiconductor jobs go unfilled.

2/5: Bachelor’s recipients are of importance to our high-tech economy and societal needs, but STEM is not a monolith, either in terms of projected workforce needs or in terms of the degree to which there remains vast, untapped potential. #ITeachPhysics

1/5: NSF cuts are deepest on the mathematical side of STEM. Yet these posts argue we are facing a significant nationwide shortage of advanced-degree-holding talent in such areas, and median starting salaries for Physics bachelors who directly enter the workforce continue to soar.

4/4: I've spoken with the CEO of SPIE: we’re very concerned about how to expand our pipeline to meet high-end workforce needs in Optics & Photonics! On the mathematical side of STEM, we are facing a significant nationwide shortage of advanced-degree-holding STEM talent.

3/4: There are many societal needs where Physics students play key roles, highlighted by recent legislation with strong bipartisan support, e.g. the America Rescue Plan, the National Photonics Initiative, the National Quantum Initiative, the US CHIPS & Science Act, among others.

2/4: A larger argument (under-appreciated by universities and by prospectives students and their families) is that Physics students play a keystone role in our necessarily high-tech world, doing necessary good as highly adaptable "residents" within the mathematical side of STEM.

1/4: Median starting salaries for Physics bachelors who directly enter the workforce are only a small part of the case that these are the kinds of alumni a university should strive to create: it shows that they do well for themselves.