(Posted 2-7-00)
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
News Service Contact: Laurie Gengenbach, 336-334-5371

UNCG TO HOST U.S. DEPARTMENT
OF EDUCATION GRANT COMMITTEE
 
GREENSBORO —The University of North Carolina at Greensboro will host a  U.S. Department of Education committee meeting to review proposals for national grants in post-secondary education. The meeting of The Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE,) will be Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 28-29.

Dr. Gerald Meisner, and associate professor of physics, and Dr. Harol Hoffman of the Anthropology Department helped arrange the meeting and said hosting the committee is an honor for UNCG and can help raise the profile of Greensboro's educational establishment at the national level. They said FIPSE selects centrally located review sites from among those universities that have been funded by the program.

FIPSE grants are some of the nation's most prestigious and hotly contested education grants in the country. Although many apply just a handful are chosen, they said.

The competition is designed to support innovative reform projects that hold promise as models for the resolution of important issues and problems in postsecondary education.
Meisner and Hoffman are themselves recent recipients of one of the grants: A $1.6 million LAAP – Learn Anytime Anywhere Physics –  program. The funding is being used to develop an online astronomy lab and course which is expected to be running in 2002.

LAAP is the second major grant the two faculty members have received in recent years. In 1994, they received a $2.6 million National Science Foundation grant to establish and administer a four-year "Tech Tools" training program for high school science and math teachers.

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