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Kim Coble Associate Professor of Physics
Education
Research Interests Cosmology education research and curriculum development, cosmology, microwave and radio astronomy Recent Presentations and Publications Coble, K., McLin, K. M., Bailey, J. M., Metevier, A. J., and Cominsky, L. R. in preparation, The Big Ideas in Cosmology, Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishers / Great River Technology, Inc. Coble, K., Cominsky, L. R., McLin, K. M., Metevier, A. J., and Bailey, J. M., 2012, Using the Big Ideas in Cosmology to Teach College Students, in Connecting People to Science, eds. J. B. Jensen, J. G. Manning, M. G. Gibbs, and D. Daou, San Francisco, CA: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 49 Bailey, J. M., Coble, K. A., Cochran, G. L., Larrieu, D. M., Sanchez, R., and Cominsky, L. R. 2012, A Multi-Institutional Investigation of Students’ Preinstructional Ideas About Cosmology, Astronomy Education Review, 11, 010302 Coble, K., Camarillo, C. T., Nickerson, M. D., Trouille, L. E., Bailey, J. M., Cochran, G. L., & Cominsky, L. R. 2012, Investigating Student Ideas About Cosmology I: Distances, Structure, and Composition of the Universe, submitted to Astronomy Education Review Trouille, L. E., Coble, K. A., Cochran, G. L., Camarillo, C. T., Nickerson, M. D., Bailey, J. M., and Cominsky, L. R. 2012, Investigating Student Ideas About Cosmology II: Big Bang, Expansion, and Age of the Universe, submitted to Astronomy Education Review. A. K. Hodari, B. Cunningham, L. J. Martinez-Miranda, M. Urry, K. Coble, E. Freeland, T. Hodapp, R. Ivie, M. Ong, S. Petty, S. Seestrom, S. Seidel, E. Simmons, M. Thoennessen, and H. White, 2011, Many Steps Forward, A Few Steps Back: Women In Physics In The U. S., ICWIP 2011 Conference Proceedings
Yale University; October 9, 2012 American Physical Society National Meeting; March 31, 2012 Columbia University; March 8, 2012 University of Chicago; February 27, 2011 Carthage College; November 15, 2011 DePaul University; April 27, 2011 Lewis University; March 30, 2011 American Association of Physics Teachers National Meeting, January 10, 2011 Memberships Astronomy Education Board Member, American Astronomical Society, Committee on Minorities Member, American Association of Physics Teachers Recent Grants and Funding Using the Big Ideas in Cosmology to Teach College Students: Curriculum Development NASA ROSES; $499,596; 03/01/10 - 02/28/13 In collaboration with Lynn Cominsky, Kevin McLin, and Anne Metevier at Sonoma State University and Janelle Bailey at UNLV Illinois Space Grant Consortium $54,000 from ISGC plus $39,000 CSU match; 05/17/10 - 05/16/11 $33,000 from ISGC plus $25,000 CSU match; 05/17/11 - 05/16/12 $41,000 from ISGC plus $32,000 CSU match; 05/17/12 - 05/16/13 Enhancing the NASA STEM Pipeline on Chicago’s South Side $150,000 from NASA plus $50,000 CSU match; 09/01/09 - 02/28/11 In collaboration with the Illinois Space Grant Consortium Creating Innovative Physics Learning Environments in the Urban Classroom NSF-CCLI; $194,600; 05/15/07 - 06/01/11
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