Selected Honors and Awards:
Montana State University
• College of Letters and Science Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2002
Queen’s University—Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• Arts and Science Undergraduate Award for Teaching Excellence, 1993
• Eng. Soc. Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1993
Biographical Sketch:
I joined the Department of Physics at MSU in the summer of 1996 as a member of the faculty interested in teaching and research in physics education. Since 2001, I have been serving as the Assistant Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education in Academic Affairs. Before coming to MSU, I was an adjunct professor and part-time research fellow (theoretical
nuclear physics) at Queen's University
in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Interests:
In my administrative role, my motivation continues to be my desire to help students be successful. I continue to teach courses in the department (mostly PHYS 206) because it provides an opportunity to experiment with new techniques and technologies, which I can then share with other faculty. My creative activities now focus on textbook writing with the current focus on the texts for PHYS 205 and 206.
Selected Publications:
Edward E. Prather, Timothy F. Slater, Jeffrey P. Adams, Janelle M. Bailey, Lauren V. Jones, Jack A. Dostal, “Research on a Lecture-Tutorial Approach to Teaching Introductory Astronomy for Non–Science Majors,” The Astronomy Education Review, vol. 3(2), on-line at http://aer.noao.edu/ (2004).
Jeffrey P. Adams, Gina Brissenden, Rebecca S. Lindell, Timothy F. Slater, Joy Wallace, “Observations of Student Behavior in Collaborative Learning Groups,” The Astronomy Education Review, vol. 1, on-line at http://aer.noao.edu/ (2002).
Tim Slater and Jeff Adams, “Mathematical Reasoning Over Arithmetic in Introductory Astronomy,” The Physics Teacher, vol. 40(5). pp. 268-272 (2002).
Jeff Adams and Tim Slater, “Learning Through Sharing,” Journal of College Science Teaching, vol. 31(6), pp. 384-387 (2002).
Jeffrey P. Adams and Timothy F. Slater, “Implementing a Web-Based Adaptive Senior Exit Survey for Undergraduates,” Academic Exchange Quarterly, vol. 5(1), pp. 51-57 (2001).
Tim Slater, Jeffrey P. Adams, Gina Brissenden, and Doug Duncan, “What Topics Are Taught in Introductory Astronomy Courses?” The Physics Teacher, vol. 39(1), pp. 52-55 (2001).
Jeff Adams and Tim Slater, “Stellar Bar Codes,” The Physics Teacher, 38(1), pp. 35-36 (2000).
Tim Slater, Jeff Adams, and Tom Brown, “Undergraduate Success—and Failure—in Completing a Simple Circuit,” Journal of College Science Teaching 30(2), pp. 96-99 (2000).
Jeff Adams and Tim Slater, “Astronomy in the National Standards,” Journal of Geoscience Education, vol. 48(1), pp. 39-45 (2000).
Chija Skala, Tim Slater, and Jeff Adams, “Qualitative analysis of collaborative learning groups in large enrollment Introductory Astronomy,” Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 17(2), pp. 142-150 (2000).
Beth Hufnagel, Timothy Slater, Grace Deming, Jeff Adams, Rebecca Lindell Adrian, Christine Brick, and Michael Zeilik, “Pre-Course Results from the Astronomy Diagnostic Test,” Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 17(2), (2000).
Adams, J. P. and Tim Slater, “Using Action Research to Bring the Large Class Down to Size,” Journal of College Science Teaching, vol. 28, no. 2, pp-87-90 (1998).
Brown, Thomas R., Timothy F. Slater, and Jeffrey P. Adams, “Gender Differences with Batteries and Bulbs,” The Physics Teacher. v. 36(9) (1998).
Francis, Gregory E., Jeffrey P. Adams, and Elizabeth J. Noonan, “Do They Stay Fixed?” The Physics Teacher, 36(8) (1998).
J.P. Adams, B. Castel and H. Sagawa, “Neutron halos and E1 resonances in 208Pb,” Phys. Rev. C 53, p. 1016 (1996).
J. Chambers, E. Zaremba, J.P. Adams and B. Castel, “Pygmy Dipole Resonances in the Calcium Isotopes,” Phys. Rev. C 50, p. 2671 (1994).
J.P. Adams and B. Castel, “The Quasielastic 40Ca(e,e’) Reaction in the Transverse Channel: Nuclear Structure Effects,” Phys. Rev. C 50, p. 1763 (1994).
J.P. Adams, B. Castel, P. Blunden and Y. Okuhara, “Role of nuclear structure in the spin-isospin nuclear response problem,” Phys. Rev. C 48, p. 1438 (1993).
J.P. Adams and B. Castel, “Quasielastic Electron Scattering: Current Results, Current Problems,” IJMPE 2, p. 845 (1993).
Academic Responsibilities:
Classes being taught by Dr. Adams this semester are listed below. Follow the link to find the online content for the class:-
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