Awards and Recognition

• 2009 William E. Wine Award for Excellence in Teaching
• 2009 College of Science Award for Outreach Excellence
• 2009 Dr. Carroll B. Shannon College of Science Certificate of Teaching Excellence
• Featured in VT Scholar of the Week, May 8-14, 2006
• Featured in Spotlight on Innovation, March 23, 2009
• Black holes and pulsars could reveal extra dimensions (New Scientist, August 21, 2011)
• Exploding black holes could expose hidden dimensions (New Scientist, February 5, 2008)
• Astronomers look for exploding black holes (Nature News, February 1, 2008)
• Physicists and engineers search for new dimension (March 17, 2008)

Teaching

Fall

• PHYS 2074 Highlights of Contemporary Physics
• PHYS 1155 Astronomy Laboratory I
• PHYS 3655 Intro Astrophysics I

Spring

• PHYS 1156 Astronomy Laboratory II
• PHYS 3154 Observational Astrophysics
• PHYS 3656 Intro Astrophysics II

• PHYS 1056 Introduction to Astronomy II
• PHYS 2206 General Physics II
• PHYS 2306 Foundations of Physics II
• PHYS 4674: Introduction to General Relativity

• Astronomy Minor for undergraduates
• Sky Image Processor web-based image processor written in Java
• PHYS 3154 Observational Astrophysics website with useful observing information

Research

Eight-meter-wavelength Transient Array (ETA)
A continuous low-frequency radio survey of nearly the entire northern hemisphere with an aim of observing the short pulse of emission (a transient) expected from...

• exploding primordial black holes
• gamma ray bursts
• supernovae
• compact object mergers
• some pulsars (the "giant pulses")

• the general interstellar medium (warm ionized medium, bubbles, shocks, ...)
• possible contributions of interstellar free-free emission to anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background
• the relation between the warm ionized interstellar medium and radio wave scattering

Outreach

• Thinking of buying a telescope? I recommend buying a Dobsonian.
• Prices Fork Observatory Public Open House Program
  
• Sky Image Processor (SIP) - a web-based astronomical image processing system, written in Java
• FAQ about Astronomy and Physics