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Alexander Graham Bell & the Assassination of President Garfield: Teaching the Physics of Early Attempts at Medical Imaging Johannes v.d. Wirjawan & Dean Zollman, Proceedings of the GIREP-EPEC & PHEC Conference, Leicester, UK, 2009.
Applying Knowledge in New Contexts: A Comparison of Pre-and Post-Instruction Students Dyan L. McBride and Dean A. Zollman, Proceedings of the 2009 Physics Education Research Conference, AIP Publications, July 29-30, 2009, Ann Arbor, MI
Examining Student Responses for Meaningful Understanding in the Context of Wavefront Aberrometry Dyan L. McBride and Dean A. Zollman, Proceedings of the 2008 Physics Education Research Conference, AIP Publications, July 23 - 24, 2008, Edmonton, Canada.
Kinematics of a Head-Neck Model Simulating Whiplash Giuseppe Colicchia, Hartmut Wienser, Ahmet Ilhan Sen and Dean Zollman, cover story in The Physics Teacher 46, 88-91, February, 2008
A Model of the Human Eye Giuseppe Colicchia, Hartmut Wienser, Christina Waltner and Dean Zollman, The Physics Teacher 46, 528-531, 2008
Pinhole Glasses Giuseppe Colicchia, Martin Hopf, Hartmut Wiesner and Dean Zollman, The Physics Teacher 46, 26-28, 2008
Investigating Students' Ideas about Wavefront Aberrometry Dyan McBride and Dean Zollman, Proceedings of the Physics Education Research Conference, 2007
Transfer of Students' Learning: Physics to Medical Imaging Dean Zollman, Bijaya Aryal & Spartak Kalita, Proceedings of the International Conference on Physics Education: Toward Development of Physics for All, Tokyo, 2006
Use of Physical Models to Facilitate Transfer of Physics Learning to Understand Positron Emission Tomography Bijaya Aryal, Dean Zollman and N. Sanjay Rebello, Proceedings of the Physics Education Research Conference, 2006
Investigating Students' Ideas of X-Rays While Developing Teaching Materials for a Medical Physics Course Spartak Kalita and Dean Zollman, Proceedings of the Physics Education Research Conference, 2006
Supported by a National Science Foundation
Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars Grant DUE 04-27645