submitted to the national office by Bill Warren

The Chesapeake Section met at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland on April 20-21, 2001.

Barbara J. Duch of the University of Delaware Math and Science Education Resource Center provided a Friday afternoon workshop on  Science Education Reform: Force and Motion from Elementary School Through College.

A reception and banquet were held in the very handsome Humanities Center followed by the keynote address, Ghosts in the Universe: The World Around Us We Do Not See by Jordan Goodman, Chair of the University of Maryland Physics Department. He discussed the cosmological “dark matter” problem and whether neutrinos, with a possible small mass and great numbers, may constitute a significant part of this. (Apparently not.)

The Paper Session on Saturday morning included a demonstration by Rhett Hemann of Radford University, Loud and Clear, in which he built a speaker from three plastic food containers, a small magnet, and a coil of wire.

The following papers were given:

After lunch at the Loyola College dining hall, the business meeting was held at which the following prizes were awarded:

For more details, including abstracts, photographs, and minutes of the business meeting, go to the section website at www.physics.udel.edu/csaapt/Spring 2001.

The 2001 Fall Meeting will be held November 16-17 at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond. Check the website for more information.