AAPT
2012 Annual Report
25
Winter Meeting 2012
Elizabeth Chesick
wa
s presented with a 2012 Distinguished Service Citation in recognition
of her service as Section Representative, Vice President, and President of the Southeastern
Pennsylvania Section of AAPT. She served as a member over the years of ten different AAPT
Area and Advisory Committees and as chair of two of those Area Committees, Chesick was
a Physics Teacher Resource Agent (PTRA) at the inception of the program, an official AAPT
delegate to the 1986 International Conference on Physics Education in Tokyo and to the US/
Japan/China Conferences on Physics Education in 1989, 1991, and 1993. She co-authored the
AAPT publication titled “The Role, Education, Qualifications, and Professional Development
of Secondary School Physics Teachers.” In 2008 she was elected as the High School Member-
at-Large of the AAPT Executive Board, serving until the end of her three-year term in 2011.
Peter Hopkinson
was recognized for his many years of service as a Board Member, officer,
and Section Representative for the British Columbia Section. He has also served on the AAPT
Nominating Committee. Since the 1980s, he has presented numerous talks and demo shows,
outreach events, and crackerbarrel contributions in British Columbia and Alberta, throughout
the United States, and at national AAPT meetings. He is a long-time strong supporter of
and contributor to AAPT and BCAPT, an exceptional physics teacher, an ambassador for
physics and science outreach, and a mentor and role model for hundreds of middle school,
high school and university/college physics teachers and students across North America.
He received the 2002-03 Award for Teaching Excellence from the Association of Canadian
Community Colleges.
Jan Tobochnik,
received the Distinguished Service Citation in recognition of his outstanding
decade-long service to AAPT as editor of the
American Journal of Physics
(
AJP
). Besides
maintaining the high quality of AJP, he has worked to bring it into the electronic age with
a totally electronic submission and reviewing process and has implemented a number of
enhancements, including color online figures without author charges, online animations,
color figures on the cover, and incorporation of the PER section. During his time as editor
of
AJP,
he served
ex officio
on the AAPT Executive Board and as a member both of the
AAPT Publications Committee and the AIP Committee on Publishing. Just before assuming
the editorship of
AJP
, he and Harvey Gould co-organized and co-chaired the first Gordon
Research Conference on “Physics Research and Education (Focus on Thermal and Statistical
Physics),” which took place in June 2000.
Homer L. Dodge Citations for Distinguised Service to AAPT
Homer L. Dodge Citations recognize AAPT members for their exceptional contributions to the
association at the national, sectional, or local level. Awards are presented twice annually during the
National Winter and Summer Meetings
