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About
me

My name is Mike Hull

 I started as an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois studying plasma engineering.  After obtaining my BS degree, I changed career paths to pursue my true passion: teaching physics.

 

 I became a graduate student in the Physics Education Research Group at the University of Maryland, to research how people think about physics, and how I and other physics teachers can teach it better. 

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Research Topics

Investigating Student Learning in Asynchronous Environments

Investigating Student Reasoning about Radioactivity

Measuring Perceived Agency of Pre- and In-service Physics Teachers

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Education

Ph.D. in Physics | University of Maryland, College Park (UMD)

Date (2007, Aug ~ 2013, May)

B.C. in Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

Date (2002, Aug ~ 2007, May)

Book Pages

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Book chapter

Hull, M. M. & Johnson, A. (2021) Wie adaptiert man Unterrichtskonzepte erfolgreich? Ein Beispiel anhand von Inquiry into Radioactivity für den Einsatz in Gymnasien. (German) In Kubsch, M., et al. Lehrkräftebildung neu gedacht. Ein Praxishandbuch für die Lehre in den Naturwissenschaften und deren Didaktiken, Waxmann Verlag

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Service

Exam Committee

Outreach Organizer 

Committee Member

TEAMS coordinator

Adult Students

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Honors and Awards

Nominated for eCampus Learnies award for development of “rich instructional media

Prize for Good Teaching

Mobility Fellowship, University of Vienna, awarded to finance three months of collaborative research in 
Kyoto Japan, 2019

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Work
Experience

2022 - Present

Assistant Professor of Physics
University of Alaska Fairbanks

Physics Academic Advisor

Investigating Student Learning in Asynchronous Environments; Design, implement, evaluate, and improve a week-long learning module on
radioactivity featuring simulated groupwork

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My Publications

Hull, M. M., Jansky, A., Hopf, M. (2023) Radioactivity, radiation, and particle physics in general.

Hull, M. M. and Klestil, M. (2022) Radioaktivität untersuchen.

Hull, M. M., Kitagawa, S., Abe, H., Yokotani, H., Funahashi, H. (2022) Jeder Mensch ist radioaktiv

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Teaching Experience

2023 Summer

Physics instruction for summer Session

Going Ballistic with Physics

Led 20 
children (grade 5 - 8) in learning about Newton’s laws and projectile motion by building 
pea shooters and trebuchets

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Contact
Me

Connect with me to explore collaboration opportunities or to discuss the fascinating world of physics and research.

On a Laptop

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Media

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