Anne J. Cox
Professor of Physics, Eckerd
College
Anne J. Cox graduated from a small liberal arts
college (Rhodes College, Memphis, TN) before moving to the University
of Virginia for her Ph.D. work
in experimental cluster
science. She started teaching at Eckerd in
1995 and won the Staub Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award in 2004.
Her current research explores how technology, especially
simulations, and collaborative work can enhance student learning in the
classroom. She has developed curriculum using Physlets
®
and Open Source Physics resources, specifically
Easy
Java
Simulations (simulation
building software) and
Tracker
(video analysis software). She has numerous published
articles, talks and
workshops and is the co-author
of
Physlet® Quantum Physics,
a textbook that combines computer
simulations with traditional text for use in upper-level physics
courses. She is the co-editor of two digital collections that are a
part of the National Sciences Digital Library pathway for physics
education, ComPADRE Collections for
Open
Source Physics
and
Statistical
and Thermal Physics.
She also
works with undergraduate students to continue studies in atomic
cluster
studies, a field of physics that
is intermediate between
condensed matter and atomic/molecular physics. Her on-campus
laboratory provides a hands-on, experimental research experience
for both advanced and beginning physics students. The time she spends
away from the lab and classroom is
happily spent playing (or better, yet: traveling) with her
two daughters.
