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- ↑ Joint Task Force on Undergraduate Physics Programs, American Association of Physics Teachers, May 27, 2014, retrieved 2020-12-09
- ↑ Executive committee, APS Topical Group on Physics Education Research, archived from the original on 2020-08-08
- ↑ APS Fellows Archive: Fellows nominated in 2007 by the APS Forum on Education, American Physical Society, retrieved 2020-12-09
- ↑ 2008 Excellence in Physics Education Award Recipient: University of Washington Physics Education Group, American Physical Society, retrieved 2020-12-09