BA University of Connecticut 1966; MS Stevens Institute of Technology 1968; PhD Rutgers University 1975
Introductory physics curriculum, teaching laboratory apparatus, electronics, thermal physics, solid state physics
Experimental low temperature physics, especially quantum conduction phenomena and vortex motion in superconductors, basic and applied superconductivity, design of microwave cavities for particle accelerators
Modern Introductory Physics (Springer, 1999); "The Introductory Calculus-based Physics Textbook," (Physics Today, December 1996); "Periodic Pinning Arrays Produced by Atomic Force Microscopy," (Bulletin of American Physics Society, 44(1), 1286, 1999); Research in low temperature physics reported in Physics Letters, Review of Scientific Instruments, IEEE Transactions of Nuclear Science, Physical Review Letters, American Journal of Physics
Research Associate, Cornell Unviersity 1981-84, Accelerator Physics Consultant, Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory
Grants from the National Science Foundation and Research Corporation; member National Advisory Board for CEBAF accelerator; member, IUPP Statistical Physics Working Group; co-chairman, Laboratory Group