Fall 2008

Hi everyone!  Soon it will be the start of a new academic year and I am very excited about teaching again. I have had a wonderful year off that was full of many rewarding events and achievements.  I made several trips to the Natural History Museum at the Smithsonian and also to UCLA, but for research projects that I am working on in collaboration with colleagues from these institutions.  I was an invited speaker at a conference in India, which was a really outstanding conference and just an outstanding trip.  I've attached an image of me from a temple within the Elora caves, which are carved into solid rock!  I totally loved India.  I made many other trips and did a lot of data crunching and writing, which I am still doing!  I had an important paper get published in the journal Science!

I have a lot of new ideas for my Introduction to Astronomy course that I am looking forward to implementing in the fall.  However, enrollment is not great and I need at least 5 more students to register for the course!  Please tell all your friends to take my class.  The schedule is a little odd this year since one lecture period and the lab are both on Monday, so it makes for a bit of a long day.  

More in the near future!