Faculty: 5
Staff: 0
Post Docs: 0
Grads: 0
Under Grads: 12
Research Areas:
cosmology, and large scale structure; radio astronomy and galaxy formation; interstellar medium, stellar evolution, stellar remnants and binary
star systems; plasma physics and fusion energy; solid state physics, materials science,
optical and electrical characterization of semiconductors, photovoltaics (solar cells); and nuclear physics.
Facilities:
Morehead Radio Telescope (see web page), pulsed dye lazer, 1 Tesla magnet
'For the sake of persons of ... different types, scientific truth should be presented in different forms, and should be regarded as equally scientific, whether it appears in the robust form and the vivid coloring of a physical illustration, or in the tenuity and paleness of a symbolic expression.'