Don Terndrup

ALX Grant

Professor Terndrup intends to redesign two courses with a combination of existing open text and newly developed learning activities, statistical tools and computer programming exercises.

Racial Justice Grant

Dr. Terndrup will look at statistics on minority enrollment in Astronomy and Physics at Ohio State vs. minority enrollment in STEM courses nationally, and will discuss with students the discipline of Astronomy and the ways it both provides opportunity and limits those opportunities variously in ways that are correlated with other factors such as race, gender and economic status. In the longer term, Dr. Terndrup will examine how these discussions of racial or gender justice can affect student attitudes and retention, or whether there are differences in student response for first-year students vs. more advanced majors.