Founded: 1990
Full Time: 5
Part Time: 17
Budget: 1,000,000.00
Director: Dr. Diola Bagayoko
Southern Univ.--Dept. of Physics
Room 232, W. James Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70813
Telephone: 504/771-2730 FAX: 504/771-4341
Web Page: http://www.phys.subr.edu
E-Mail: bagayoko@stark.subr.edu
Research Areas:
Mission: (Effort partly begets and certainly enhances ability! Not just results.) (a) To produce well-trained bachelorís degree holders in science, with emphasis on physics, engineering, and mathematics (SEM)-most of whom are to enroll and excel in graduate school. (b) To synthesize existing knowledge and produce new knowledge for "the creation of educational, research, and professional value added", from K through graduate school and beyond and learning/teaching in particularóin support of objective. (c) To produce new, scientific, and technological knowledge as a by-product of systemic mentoring, including research-training, of one hundred (100) pre-college students, and 100 undergraduate Scholars and affiliate students in science, engineering, and mathematics. Expertise: (The brochure and publications on the web provide a clear road map for replication.) Learning theories and paradigms; on and off-campus expertise in every keyword-area listed below. Please see Education Vol. 115, No. 1, pp. 11-18, 19-25, and particularly 31-39, 1994. See also the web site. Projects: SEM-Timbuktu Academy, $577k/year, the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR); NASA-Undergraduate Student Awards for Research, $60k/year; NIST Fellows at the Timbuktu Academy; Louisiana Alliance for Minority Participation (LAMP), National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Louisiana Board of Regents (LEQSF). LEQSF supports the graduate component of the Academy.
Areas of Expertise:
Special Capabilities and Facilities:
Please visit the Timbuktu Academy and Department of Physics home page at http://www.phys.subr.edu for extensive information on facilities, staff, publications, contact information, the pre-college program, and the on-line application form. Ongoing materials science and physics research projects are also described on the home page. Please see the annotated listing of publications at www.phys.subr.edu/homepage/academy/publica.html.
Research Equipment:
T1-node to the internet and departmental network with 50 personal computers, workstations, and peripherals; a high performance computing laboratory (HPCL) with an Origin2000 server and 7 O2 workstations; SQUID Magnetometer Laboratory; Pyro- and ferroelectric Materials Research Laboratory; Fuel Cell and Spectroscopy Laboratory; Particle Physics and Detector Research Laboratory.
Keywords:
0503000 Eucational Modes/Psychology Theory;
0505000 Higher Education;
0504017 Precollegiate Education-Science/Mathematics;
1013000 Physical Sciences;
1013018 Physics;
1003000 Chemical Sciences;
0600000 Engineering;
1009000 Materials Sciences;
1013006 Condensed Matter