Present | Professor and Department Chair, East Tennessee State University ‐ Physics and Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences | |
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Present | Professor and Department Chair, East Tennessee State University ‐ College of Arts and Sciences | |
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Research Interests
Grants
2010 | Renovation of Research Facilities in Brown Hall |
NSF/ARI | |
Role: Co-Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Gordon K. Anderson (PI) | |
2009 | Galaxy Wars: Stellar Populations and Star Formation in Interacting Galaxies |
NSF/AST | |
Role: Co-investigator | |
Colleague(s): Beverly J. Smith (PI) | |
2008 | An Interferometric Snapshot Survey to Constrain Mass-Loss Dynamics and Physics in AGB Stars |
NASA/Spitzer Cycle 5 Program | |
Role: Co-investigator | |
Colleague(s): Michelle Creech-Eakman (PI) | |
$21,443 | |
2007 | A Workshop on The Biggest, Baddest, Coolest Stars |
NSF/AST | |
Role: Principal investigator | |
$12,730 | |
2001 | The Outer Atmosphere of Mira Variables |
NASA/FUSE Cycle 2 Guest Observing Program | |
Role: Principal investigator | |
$25,500 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
Present | Member, The American Astronomical Society | Present | Member, The Solar Physics Division of the AAS |
Courses
- PHYS 4850 - Physics Seminar
- PHYS 4617/5617 - Quantum Physics
- PHYS 4007/5007 - Computational Physics
- PHYS 2028 - Great Ideas in Science II
- PHYS 2021 - General Physics II Lab
- PHYS 2020 - General Physics II
- PHYS 2018 - Great Ideas in Science I
- PHYS 2011 - General Physics I Lab
- PHYS 2010 - General Physics I
- PHYS 1956 - Physics of Science Fiction Films
- PHYS 1030 - Science and Society II
- ASTR 3415 - Astrophysics
- ASTR - 1020 - Astronomy II
- ASTR - 1010 - Astronomy I
August 1988 | PhD, Astrophysics, Indiana University - Bloomington | |
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December 1985 | MA, Astronomy, Indiana University - Bloomington | |
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August 1983 | MA, Physics, Wayne State University | |
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May 1981 | BS, Astronomy & Physics, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | |
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Links
Contact Information
PO Box 70652
Johnson City, TN 37614
Office: Brown Hall 280
Phone: 423-439-7064
Email: