Melvin
Steinberg

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Melvin Steinberg, Ph.D.
Professor (emeritus)

Office: McConnell Hall 410
phone: (413) 585-3884
fax: (413)585-3786
email: msteinbe@email.smith.edu

Current interests:

Conceptual difficulties and non-formal reasoning in physics learning, reforming pre-college physics education, grandparenting (easier than parenting). Mel has spent sabbaticals in Denmark and Israel. He is the author (with 14 physics teachers) of "Electricity Visualized", and is leader of a National Science Foundation project to develop a new high school electricity curriculum. (Mel has retired as of 1994.)


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