keywords
- atomic and molecular physics, cold molecules, physical chemistry, physics education research
- Contact Info
Lewandowski, Heather
Positions
- Faculty Director, Quantum initiative
- Professor, JILA
- Professor, Physics
Research Areas
Research
Publications
selected publications
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chapter
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Chemistry Using Coulomb Crystals.
ACS Symposium Series.
389-410.
2021
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Chemistry Using Coulomb Crystals.
ACS Symposium Series.
389-410.
2021
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conference proceeding
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Graduate student views of leadership and team structure in a self-guided instructional laboratory setting.
362-367.
2025
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Industry Insights into Quantum Knowledge Needed for the Quantum Information Science and Engineering Workforce.
350-355.
2025
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Industry Perspectives on Projected Quantum Workforce Needs.
148-153.
2025
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Influence of an undergraduate quantum capstone course on students' post-graduation careers.
338-343.
2025
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Student engagement with statistical noise features in PhET's Projectile Data Lab simulation.
234-239.
2025
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Student perspectives on "Successful Science'' in a physics CURE and traditional lab course.
276-281.
2025
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Investigating Opportunities for Diversity and Growth in the Landscape of Quantum Information Science Engineering Education in the U.S.
2025
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Correlation of open-ended activities in laboratory courses with students' views of experimental physics.
250-255.
2024
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Exploring student beliefs of traditional physics laboratory coursework in relation to authentic research.
230-236.
2024
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Physics Instructor Views on Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs).
293-299.
2024
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"The prettiest photos are the ones that have happy people in them": the use of photovoice in an upper-division physics capstone project course.
254-259.
2023
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Representational differences in how students compare measurements.
114-119.
2023
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Affordances of Articulating Assessment Objectives in Research-based Assessment Development.
475-480.
2022
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Engagement in collaboration and teamwork using Google Colaboratory.
481-487.
2022
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Seeing quantum mechanics: The role of quantum experiments.
57-63.
2022
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Assessing students' views about experimental physics in a German laboratory course.
Journal of Physics : Conference Series.
2022
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Student ownership and understanding of multi-week final projects.
221-226.
2021
- Investigating student use of a flexible tool for simulating and visualizing quantum mechanics. 155-155. 2020
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Capturing modeling pathways using the Modeling Assessment for Physics Laboratory Experiments.
155-160.
2020
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Creating a coupled multiple response assessment for modeling in lab courses.
400-405.
2020
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Impact on students' views of experimental physics from a large introductory physics lab course.
533-538.
2020
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Investigating student use of a flexible tool for simulating and visualizing quantum mechanics.
563-568.
2020
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Investigating students' views about the role of writing in physics lab classes.
216-221.
2020
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Student perceptions of laboratory classroom activities and experimental physics practice.
131-136.
2020
- Using custom interactive video prelab activities in a large introductory lab course 2020
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Methodological development of a new coding scheme for an established assessment on measurement uncertainty in laboratory courses.
458-463.
2019
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Preliminary model for student ownership of projects.
141-146.
2019
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Using custom interactive video prelab activities in a large introductory lab course.
312-317.
2019
- Correlating students' views about experimental physics with their sense of project ownership 2018
- Initial impacts of the transformation of a large introductory lab course focused on developing experimental skills and expert epistemology 2018
- Pathways to proposing causes for unexpected experimental results 2018
- Transforming a large introductory lab course: impacts on views about experimental physics 2018
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Impact of an introductory lab on students' understanding of measurement uncertainty.
312-315.
2017
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Impact of perceived grading practices on students' beliefs about experimental physics.
19-22.
2017
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Instructor perspectives on iteration during upper-division optics lab activities.
116-119.
2017
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Student reasoning about measurement uncertainty in an introductory lab course.
244-247.
2017
- Cold controlled reactions between molecular ions and molecular radicals. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 2016
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Impact of instructional approach on students' epistemologies about experimental physics.
388-391.
2016
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Investigating student ownership of projects in an upper-division physics lab course.
336-339.
2016
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Investigating student ownership of projects in an upper-division physics lab course.
336-339.
2016
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Nothing works the first time: an expert experimental physics epistemology.
100-103.
2016
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Access to undergraduate research experiences at a large research university.
123-126.
2015
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Correlating students' beliefs about experimental physics with lab course success.
367-370.
2015
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Redesigning a junior-level electronics course to support engagement in scientific practices.
191-194.
2015
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The role of metacognition in troubleshooting: an example from electronics.
339-342.
2015
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The role of modeling in troubleshooting: an example from electronics.
103-106.
2015
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Making Models of Measurement Tools: Examples from Think-Aloud Student Interviews.
291-294.
2014
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Studying Expert Practices to Create Learning Goals for Electronics Labs.
155-158.
2014
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Development and results from a survey on students views of experiments in lab classes and research.
381-384.
2013
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Development and Validation of the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey for Experimental Physics.
AIP Conference Proceedings.
442-445.
2012
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Transforming the advanced lab: Part I - Learning goals.
AIP Conference Proceedings.
391-394.
2011
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Graduate student views of leadership and team structure in a self-guided instructional laboratory setting.
362-367.
2025
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journal article
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Vibrational Quantum-State-Controlled Reactivity in the O2+ + C3H4 Reaction..
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
4621-4629.
2026
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Students’ views of experimental physics after participating in lab courses with open-ended activities.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2025
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Outcomes from a workshop on a national center for quantum education.
EPJ Quantum Technology.
2025
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Insights from educators on building a more cohesive quantum information science and engineering education ecosystem.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2025
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Landscape of quantum information science and engineering education: From physics foundations to interdisciplinary frontiers.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2025
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Convolutional neural network approach to ion Coulomb crystal image analysis.
Journal of Chemical Physics.
2025
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Quantum-State Controlled Formation of Cosmically Relevant Metallic Molecular Ions.
Physical Review Letters.
2025
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Termination of bottom-up interstellar aromatic ring formation at C6H5+.
Nature Astronomy.
685-691.
2025
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Affordances and challenges of incorporating a remote, cloud-accessible quantum experiment into undergraduate courses.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2025
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Education for expanding the quantum workforce: Students' perceptions of the quantum industry in an upper-division physics capstone course.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2025
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Student reasoning about quantum mechanics while working with physical experiments.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2024
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Evidence for validity and reliability of a research-based assessment instrument on measurement uncertainty.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2024
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Development of a global landscape of undergraduate physics laboratory courses.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2024
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To form or not to form a reaction complex: exploring ion-molecule reactions between C3H4 isomers and Xe+ and O2+.
Faraday Discussions.
125-139.
2024
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Using a research-based assessment instrument to explore undergraduate students' proficiencies around measurement uncertainty in physics lab contexts.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2024
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Implementation of the photovoice methodology in a project-based upper-division physics course.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2024
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Cold Ion-Molecule Reactions in the Extreme Environment of a Coulomb Crystal.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
1737-1752.
2024
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Enhancing students' views of experimental physics through a course-based undergraduate research experience.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2023
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Investigating changes in student views of measurement uncertainty in an introductory physics lab course using clustering algorithms.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2023
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Seeing quantum effects in experiments.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2023
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Survey of physics reasoning on uncertainty concepts in experiments: An assessment of measurement uncertainty for introductory physics labs.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2023
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Cold Chemistry.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
7869-7871.
2023
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Reactions of Acetonitrile with Trapped, Translationally Cold Acetylene Cations.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
5120-5128.
2023
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Coronal Heating as Determined by the Solar Flare Frequency Distribution Obtained by Aggregating Case Studies.
The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ).
2023
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Student experiences with authentic research in a remote, introductory course-based undergraduate research experience in physics.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2023
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Implementation and goals of quantum optics experiments in undergraduate instructional labs.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2023
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Students? views about experimental physics in a large-enrollment introductory lab focused on experimental scientific practices.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2023
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Investigating undergraduate students' views about the process of experimental physics.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2022
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Student engagement with modeling in multiweek student-designed lab projects.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2022
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Instructor perspectives on the emergency transition to remote instruction of physics labs.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2022
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Assessing the Needs of the Quantum Industry.
IEEE Transactions on Education.
592-601.
2022
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Student use of a quantum simulation and visualization tool.
European Journal of Physics.
2022
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Assessing student engagement with teamwork in an online, large-enrollment course-based undergraduate research experience in physics.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2022
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Undergraduate student experiences in remote lab courses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2022
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Classification of open-ended responses to a research-based assessment using natural language processing.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2022
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Building a Quantum Engineering Undergraduate Program.
IEEE Transactions on Education.
220-242.
2022
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Investigating students' views of experimental physics in German laboratory classes.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2022
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Impacts on student learning, confidence, and affect and in a remote, large-enrollment, course-based undergraduate research experience in physics.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2022
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Skills-focused lab instruction improves critical thinking skills and experimentation views for all students.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2022
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Formation of astrochemically relevant molecular ions: Reaction of translationally cold CCl+ with benzene in a linear ion trap.
Physical Review A (PRA).
2022
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Data sharing model for physics education research using the 70 000 response Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey for Experimental Physics dataset.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2021
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Velocity-tunable beam of continuously decelerated polar molecules for cold ion-molecule reaction studies.
Review of Scientific Instruments.
2021
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Remote advanced lab course: A case study analysis of open-ended projects.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2021
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Framework for evaluating statistical models in physics education research.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2021
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Achieving a quantum smart workforce.
Quantum Science and Technology.
2021
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Lab instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic: Effects on student views about experimental physics in comparison with previous years.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2021
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Introductory physics lab instructors’ perspectives on measurement uncertainty.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2021
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Using isotopologues to probe the potential energy surface of reactions of C2H2++C3H4.
Journal of Chemical Physics.
2021
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Isotope-specific reactions of acetonitrile (CH3CN) with trapped, translationally cold CCl+.
Journal of Chemical Physics.
2021
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Characterization of a vacuum ultraviolet light source at 118 nm.
Journal of Chemical Physics.
2021
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Online administration of research-based assessments.
American Journal of Physics.
7-8.
2021
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Investigating the landscape of physics laboratory instruction across North America.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2020
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Incorporating writing in advanced lab projects: A multiple case-study analysis.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2020
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Impact of a course transformation on students' reasoning about measurement uncertainty.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2020
- Preparing for the quantum revolution: What is the role of higher education?. Physical Review Physics Education Research. 2020
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Preparing for the quantum revolution: What is the role of higher education?.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2020
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Isomer-selected ion-molecule reactions of acetylene cations with propyne and allene.
Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP.
20303-20310.
2020
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A rapid, spatially dispersive frequency comb spectrograph aimed at gas phase chemical reaction kinetics.
Molecular Physics.
2020
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Reactions of translationally cold trapped CCl+with acetylene (C2H2).
Journal of Chemical Physics.
2020
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Framework of goals for writing in physics lab classes.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2020
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Cold and controlled chemical reaction dynamics.
Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP.
9180-9194.
2020
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Collisions between ultracold atoms and cold molecules in a dual electrostatic-magnetic trap.
Physical Review A (PRA).
2020
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Process of transforming of an introductory mechanics lab course at Fort Lewis College.
569-574.
2020
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Quantum-state-specific reaction rate measurements for the photo-induced reaction Ca+ + O2 CaO+ + O.
Molecular Physics.
3036-3042.
2019
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Using the life grid interview technique in STEM education research.
International Journal of STEM Education.
2019
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Using think-aloud interviews to characterize model-based reasoning in electronics for a laboratory course assessment.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2019
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Characterizing lab instructors' self-reported learning goals to inform development of an experimental modeling skills assessment.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2018
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The Modelling Framework for Experimental Physics: description, development, and applications.
European Journal of Physics.
2018
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Quantum-state-controlled reactions between molecular radicals and ions.
Physical Review A (PRA).
2018
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Pulsed operation of a ring Stark decelerator.
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.
2018
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A high-voltage amplifier for traveling-wave Stark deceleration.
Review of Scientific Instruments.
2018
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A summary of research-based assessment of students' beliefs about the nature of experimental physics.
American Journal of Physics.
212-219.
2018
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Recommendations for the use of notebooks in upper-division physics lab courses.
American Journal of Physics.
45-53.
2018
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Student ownership of projects in an upper-division optics laboratory course: A multiple case study of successful experiences.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2017
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An ion trap time-of-flight mass spectrometer with high mass resolution for cold trapped ion experiments.
Review of Scientific Instruments.
2017
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Qualitative investigation of students' views about experimental physics.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2017
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Using lab notebooks to examine students' engagement in modeling in an upper-division electronics lab course.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2017
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Production of carbon clusters C3 to C12 with a cryogenic buffer-gas beam source.
Journal of Chemical Physics.
2017
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Investigating the role of socially mediated metacognition during collaborative troubleshooting of electric circuits.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2017
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Improvement or selection? A longitudinal analysis of students' views about experimental physics in their lab courses.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2017
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Students' views about the nature of experimental physics.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2017
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Measurements of trap dynamics of cold OH molecules using resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization.
Physical Review A (PRA).
2017
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Developing skills versus reinforcing concepts in physics labs: Insight from a survey of students' beliefs about experimental physics.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2017
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Electronics lab instructors' approaches to troubleshooting instruction.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2017
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Collapse and revival of the monopole mode of a degenerate Bose gas in an isotropic harmonic trap.
Physical Review A (PRA).
2016
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Open-ended versus guided laboratory activities: Impact on students' beliefs about experimental physics.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2016
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Research-based assessment of students' beliefs about experimental physics: When is gender a factor?.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2016
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Lab notebooks as scientific communication: Investigating development from undergraduate courses to graduate research.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2016
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Alternative model for administration and analysis of research-based assessments.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2016
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Investigating the role of model-based reasoning while troubleshooting an electric circuit.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2016
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Students' epistemologies about experimental physics: Validating the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey for experimental physics.
Physical Review Physics Education Research.
2016
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Observation of a persistent non-equilibrium state in cold atoms.
Nature Physics.
1009-+.
2015
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Model-based reasoning in the physics laboratory: Framework and initial results.
Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research.
2015
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Method for traveling-wave deceleration of buffer-gas beams of CH.
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.
2014
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Incorporating learning goals about modeling into an upper-division physics laboratory experiment.
American Journal of Physics.
876-882.
2014
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Epistemology and expectations survey about experimental physics: Development and initial results.
Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research.
2014
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A search for varying fundamental constants using hertz-level frequency measurements of cold CH molecules.
Nature Communications.
2013
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The process of transforming an advanced lab course: Goals, curriculum, and assessments.
American Journal of Physics.
63-70.
2013
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State purity of decelerated molecular beams.
Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy.
1-6.
2012
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Large Effects of Electric Fields on Atom-Molecule Collisions at Millikelvin Temperatures.
Physical Review Letters.
2011
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Theoretical study of the quenching of NH ((1)Delta) molecules via collisions with Rb atoms.
Physical Review A (PRA).
2009
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Experimental Demonstration of Classical Hamiltonian Monodromy in the 1:1:2 Resonant Elastic Pendulum.
Physical Review Letters.
2009
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High-energy-resolution molecular beams for cold collision studies.
New Journal of Physics.
2009
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Production of cold formaldehyde molecules for study and control of chemical reaction dynamics with hydroxyl radicals.
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.
2006
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Cold molecule spectroscopy for constraining the evolution of the fine structure constant.
Physical Review Letters.
2006
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Efficient Stark deceleration of cold polar molecules.
European Physical Journal D.
351-358.
2004
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Cold free-radical molecules in the laboratory frame - art. no. 043410.
Physical Review A (PRA).
2004
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A pulsed, low-temperature beam of supersonically cooled free radical OH molecules.
Chemical Physics Letters.
53-57.
2004
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Decoherence-driven cooling of a degenerate spinor Bose gas - art. no. 240404.
Physical Review Letters.
2003
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Phase space manipulation of cold free radical OH molecules - art. no. 243001.
Physical Review Letters.
2003
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Normal-superfluid interaction dynamics in a spinor Bose gas - art. no. 150402.
Physical Review Letters.
2003
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Simplified system for creating a Bose-Einstein condensate.
Journal of Low Temperature Physics.
309-367.
2003
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Effect of cold collisions on spin coherence and resonance shifts in a magnetically trapped ultracold gas - art. no. 053616.
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.
2002
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Spatial resolution of spin waves in an ultracold gas.
Physical Review Letters.
2002
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Observation of anomalous spin-state segregation in a trapped ultracold vapor.
Physical Review Letters.
2002
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Laser Guidance and Trapping of Mesoscale Particles in Hollow-Core Optical Fibers.
Physical Review Letters.
1574-1577.
1999
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Vibrational Quantum-State-Controlled Reactivity in the O2+ + C3H4 Reaction..
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
4621-4629.
2026
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder 2002
- M.S., University of Colorado Boulder 2001
- B.S., Michigan Technological University 1997
awards and honors
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