UMSL Physicist Department of Physics & Astronomy http://www.umsl.edu/~physics December 2013

Note from Chair William B. Harms, Sr. Delivers Greetings from the Department of Physics and Astronomy. There have been a number of important Alumni Lecture developments in the department in the last year. First, I am happy to report that Dr. Sonya Bahar has been promoted to William B. Harms, Sr. was the guest of honor at the Full Professor. She is a major contributor to our annual Alumni Awards Luncheon and Lecture on May 4. Department through her cutting edge research work, Bill’s lecture, “Medical Physics: A Career Path for a “Real” mentoring of graduate students and exceptional teaching in Physicist” described the diverse talents required of a medical our introductory physics for biology course. I am so pleased physicist and his own job experience. Bill spent most of his that the university has recognized her invaluable career at the Washington University Medical School where contributions to the Department. he served as an Instructor of Radiation Physics from 1985- Last spring, a delegation of physicists from Xiangtan 2002. During this time, he also served as Associate Director University in China visited our Department and started of the NCI Funded Radiation Therapy Oncology Group 3-D negotiations for an exchange program between our two QA Center and Image-Guided Therapy Center. In 2002, he physics departments. The negotiations for physics students formed a consulting medical physics company, C&H from Xiangtan University to spend two years at UMSL and Physics, LLC, which provides radiation oncology physics receive a B.S. degree in Physics from UMSL are now services to various hospitals and free-standing clinics in the complete. I will let you know next year if any physics region. students from Xiangtan University are studying physics at UMSL. This summer, two teaching labs in the department, the introductory mechanics lab and the astronomy lab, have been totally renovated. These renovations include smart boards, new desks, new chairs, new carpeting, and new laptop computers in the astronomy lab. A $250,000 gift from Peabody Energy Company paid for the renovation of the introductory mechanics lab and a grant from the Dean’s office paid for the renovation of the astronomy lab. The reactions of the students and graduate teaching assistants to the new labs have been all incredibly positive. On a related note, the university has just broken ground on the long delayed student science laboratory building. It will be located between the Benton-Stadler complex and Natural Bridge Road. In this new building will be the new physics senior advanced laboratory. In two years, we will move the senior laboratory out of Benton Hall and into the Bruce Wilking, Charles Jones, William Harms and Bernard new building, which will include a smart board, new Feldman (photo courtesy of Deb Godwin) furniture, a dark room, a storage room, and much more laboratory space. Prior to the lecture, the Department recognized Charlie Finally, let me thank those of you who have generously Jones for his outstanding contributions to the Department. contributed to our alumni scholarship fund and let me wish Senior Matthew Freeman received the Jeffrey Earl Award all of you the best during this holiday season. for the Outstanding Physics Senior and a set of the Feynman Lectures. Chris Briggs received the Senior Alumni Award Bernard Feldman ($500). Ellie Ordway received the Outstanding Graduate

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Teaching Assistant Award which is a $250 prize and a one- “Optical Spectroscopic Surveys of Two Star-Forming year subscription to the American Journal of Physics. Regions”. Tim Sullivan was supported by a graduate fellowship from the NASA/Missouri Space Grant Consortium. He Faculty Promotion presented his research on the dynamics of a young star

Dr. Sonya Bahar was promoted this fall to Professor of cluster in Ophiuchus at the state-wide annual meeting in Biophysics. Dr. Bahar joined the Department as an April at the MS&T campus (advisor: Bruce Wilking). Ellie Assistant Professor in 2004 and was tenured and promoted Ordway-West also presented her research on silicon-on- to Associate Professor in 2009. Since 2006, she has served insulator edge defects conducted as a summer research as the Director for the Center for Neurodynamics. You can intern jointly funded by the NASA/Missouri Space Grant read about Dr. Bahar’s research in the Faculty Updates Consortium and MEMC Electronic Materials (now section. SunEdison, advisor Phil Fraundorf). Graduate students Logan Brown and Ellie Ordway received awards for their research posters at the UMSL Graduate Fair in April. Logan Hans Braun Delivers Moss Lecture also won the Sigma Xi Award for his poster “Spectro- astrometry of Water in DR Tauri” and his work was also Hans Braun visited UMSL to give the most recent Elaine published in the June issue of The Astrophysical Journal and Frank Moss Distinguished Lecture on November 1, Letters (advisor: Erika Gibb). Logan (1st) and Dawn King 2013. Braun, a professor of Physiology at the University of (2nd) received Department awards of $150 and $100, Marburg, and a close friend of Frank and Elaine Moss for respectively, for their posters. many years, spoke on the implications of modern We welcomed four new full-time students to our graduate neuroscience research for the philosophical problem of free program this year: Daniel Barnett (SIU-E), Tabitha Lewis will. The Moss Lecture Series is funded by an endowment (Alabama A&M), and Stephen Ordway and Tera Glaze from the Elaine and Frank Moss Hospitality Fund. (UMSL).

NASA/Missouri Space Grant Consortium 22nd Annual Meeting

The 22st Annual Meeting of the NASA/Missouri Space Grant Consortium was held on the Missouri S&T campus April 19-20, 2013. Undergraduate Matt Dennis discussed his research of Lulin (advisor: Dr. Erika Gibb) and Matthew Freeman his analysis of high resolution spectra of young stars in Corona Australis (advisor: Bruce Wilking). Alyssa McFarlane presented her research on improving the ctcling and capacity of Lithium-Ion batteries (advisor: Eric Majzoub). Anamaria Baluyut also described the UMSL Planetarium Program conducted for area 5th grade students and teachers.

Hans Braun, Sonya Bahar and Frank Moss at a conference in Berlin in 2004.

Graduate Program Update

We awarded five M.S. in Physics degrees and two Ph.D. degrees in 2013. Fahd Fahd, Shane Meyer, David Nafar, Ellie Ordway, and Gang Wang completed Master’s degrees. All are continuing in our doctoral program. Dawn King, Gang Wang, and Dongxue Zhao passed the Ph.D. Qualifying Exam in January 2013 and four doctoral candidates are expected to take the Qualifying Exam in January 2014. David Peaslee and Kristen Erickson successfully defended their doctoral dissertations. David’s dissertation was entitled

“Characterization of Nano-Scaled Metal-Hydrides Confined UMSL participants at the 22nd Annual meeting of the in Nano-Porous Carbon Frameworks” (advisor: Eric NASA/Missouri Space Grant Consortium. Pictured from left Majzoub). David completed the “triple-crown”, receiving to right: Alyssa McFarlane, Ellie Ordway, Dr. Bruce B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from our Department. Wilking, Anamaria Baluyut, Tim Sullivan, Dr. Erika Gibb, Kristen’s dissertation with Bruce Wilking was entitled and Matthew Freeman. 2

UMSL Hosts Delegation from Physics Club News

Xiangtan University The Physics Club has had a great start this semester led by President Dan McKeown. In a rare display of artistic The Department of Physics & Astronomy and the Center talent, the Club took first place in the Colleges Against for International Studies hosted a delegation of 7 faculty Cancer Bra Decorating Contest. The Club has purchased members and administrators from Xiangtan University, model rocket kits and members are in the process of building China on January 28-29 of 2013. Also attending was Prof. their rockets. They are presently looking for a venue farther Aigen Li from the University of Missouri-Columbia and away from a busy airport for launching. There are plans for alumnus Dr. Lu Fei (SunEdison). The delegation received a finals-week study party and a Spring Break 2014 trip to tours of the Center for Nanoscience and the Center for Fermilab. Neurodynamics as well as a campus tour and a brief view of downtown St. Louis. A reception was held at the Chancellor’s residence on the 28th. The first of the planned cooperative agreements is a 2+2 program whereby students from Xiangtan University would complete the last two years of their physics degrees at UMSL.

Charles F. Jones Receives Alumni Award

In a ceremony held at the Laumeier Sculpture Park in October, Charles Jones (B.S., 1973) was one of three recipients of the Alumni Generativity Award. The award, sponsored in part by the Jubilee Committee in partnership The award-winning physics/astronomy bra. with the UMSL Life Review Project, recognized alumni who (photo courtesy of artist/physicist Cameron Nunn) in later years have passed down their knowledge and experience to a younger generation. Since his retirement in 2005, Charles has generously donated his time to spend 2 More Undergraduate Research days a week at the County Jail tutoring inmates for the GED

exam. Part of the award was a donation made to the charity Matt Dennis, Matthew Freeman, Nick Kraftor, and Alyssa of his choice, Friends of Kids with Cancer. Also attending McFarlane made presentations at the annual Undergraduate the ceremony was Charles’ wife Carol, alumnus Jerry Research Symposium held on the UMSL campus on May 3 Lawrence (B.A., 1974), and Bruce and Janet Wilking. and hosted by the Golden Key International Honour Society Charles was nominated by Bernard Feldman. and Sigma Xi. Alyssa and Nick split the Department prize

($250) for the best physics or astronomy poster.

Peabody Energy Physics Laboratory Opens

A new lab for introductory mechanics was completed this summer using a portion of a $750,000 gift from Peabody Energy and is in use for the fall 2013 semester. The lab features a SMART board as well as workstations with interfaced computers so students can collect, analyze and display data. The lab will be used year around for introductory courses for life science majors (P1011) and for chemistry, engineering, math, and physics majors (P2111). To read more, click on the link below:

Gerontology Professor Tom Meuser and Charles Jones http://blogs.umsl.edu/news/2013/10/31/renovated-lab/ (photo courtesy of Shirley Porterfield)

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Milliano, and Nathan Roth all participated. Infrared spectra Rock and Mineral Collection Now were collected to measure the overall chemical composition on Display of volatiles in ISON, including water, formaldehyde, methanol, hydrogen cyanide, acetylene, methane, ammonia, Mike Fix has provided a photo of part of one of the hall and ethane. We also performed a very sensitive search for displays of outstanding mineral specimens that were donated deuterated water to test the hypothesis that by Professor Hal Harris and his wife Mary Harris. This contributed to ’s ocean water. Due to the apparent collection includes specimens from around the world, and disintegration of the comet during its passage around the Mike choose those minerals that he felt were the most , the December observations will focus on Comet spectacular and eye-catching for the display. They are on Lovejoy. exhibit in the west wing of 4th floor Benton Hall.

Dr. Gibb with physics students Dan McKeown and Chris Milliano during remote comet observations.

FACULTY UPDATES: Observatory News Sonya Bahar The installation of the new Meade 16-inch telescope is The current primary focus of my research group is on complete and was utilized for the 2013 schedule of public computational models of evolutionary dynamics. My viewing sessions as well as viewing sessions for the UMSL graduate students and I are studying various types of phase astronomy students. We are still learning all of the transitions in evolutionary models, and investigating the role intricacies of the telescope which was obtained through a of various parameters, like mutation size, on how generous donation by the Richard D. Schwartz estate. It evolutionary lineages branch in space and in time. These will be fully utilized in the Spring 2014 semester for Dr. projects are funded by a Complex Systems grant from the Gibb’s Observational Astronomy class which requires James S. McDonnell Foundation. I am continuing my students to do an observational project with the telescope. research in Neurodynamics, beginning a new project to look We now have both imaging and spectroscopic capabilities at synchronized neural “chimera” states which may be with the telescope with two SBIG ST-8 CCDs and an SGS analogous to the “uni-hemispheric” sleep observed in some Spectrograph. Please join us for our 2014 Public Open animal species. I have also been involved in a collaboration Houses at the Richard D. Schwartz Observatory which will with Gualtiero Piccinini of UMSL’s Department of begin in March: Philosophy, investigating the various types of computation http://www.umsl.edu/~physics/About%20the%20Departmen that can be performed by neural systems; we recently t/astro.html published a paper in the journal Cognitive Science. Lastly, I am working on a book for Springer about collective Students Observe Comet ISON dynamics in biological systems. [email protected] Remotely from UMSL http://www.umsl.edu/~neurodyn/faculty/bahar.html

Dr. Erika Gibb and collaborators at NASA Goddard Bernard J. Feldman Space Flight Center received observing time on the Infrared This year I published one paper, “Radiocarbon Dating,” Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea, Hawaii to observe comet [US-China Educational Review 3, 207-210 (2013)] and one ISON in November and December, 2013. A remote book review on “The Visioneers,” by W. Patrick McCray observing center was set up in 403 Research and students [Physics in Perspective 15, 361 (2013)]. I have also been Mersad Besic, John McGuinness, Dan McKeown, Chris 4 chosen to serve on the US-China Educational Review between (i) modern-day uses for graphene sheets and (ii) editorial board. possible roles for carbon droplets in cool stellar http://www.umsl.edu/~phybfeld/, [email protected] atmospheres. Another involves the studies of gigascale integrated circuit silicon, a highly-ordered material tightly Michael Fix connected to future technology. A 3rd involves quantitative My nonteaching activities this year included continued detective work on atomic periodicities and energy loss work on mapping a partial dinosaur skeleton from a site in reflected in electron microscope images. A 4th involves the Southeast Missouri, which is on display in the Bollinger intersection between (a) log-probability measures, (b) the County Museum of Natural History in Marble Hill, mathematical theory of model selection and (c) the Missouri. To this end I have designed a custom mapping quantitative study of correlations in complex systems with device that was skillfully constructed by department particular focus on the challenge of sustaining niche-network machinist Bruce Burkeen. Normally specimens are mapped layer-multiplicities in metazoan communities. More on in the field, but this specimen needed to be removed quickly, recent developments and on various educational explorations so only three reference points were mapped. The device as well, may be accessed through: enables me to quickly determine the distance to a point on http://www.umsl.edu/~fraundorf/index.html the fossil from any two of three fixed points. It uses two one [email protected] meter rulers with sliding cursors that have laser pointers attached. The photo shows the device in use at the museum. Thomas F. George I am involved in theoretical research in various areas of laser/materials/nanophysics, including nanomedicine. During the past year (2012-13), my invited presentations included the following: (1) the keynote address at the St. Louis Institute of Nanoscience and Nanomedicine Symposium on “Translating Science into Economic Development”; (2) a research seminar on “Nanoparticles Design and Methods of Activation for Selective Nanotherapy of Cancer” at the Department of Radiation Oncology at the School of Medicine at Washington University; and (3) a research seminar on “Laser-Induced Processes in Fullerenes” at the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia. On a human interest note, during my trip to Bosnia

and then to Croatia, I performed jazz piano in concerts in Ricardo A. Flores both countries, and I later made a trip to Bangkok where the My research interests are astrophysical cosmology and Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn (heir to the throne) of applications of quantum field theory to the physics of Thailand awarded me an honorary doctorate from elementary particles. This past year, however, my teaching Phranakohn Rajabhat University. load was doubled and I have not been able to complete any http://www.umsl.edu/chancellor/, [email protected] project. Nonetheless, I remain interested in the expected evolution in maps of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in Erika Gibb clusters, and I may return to the subject of dark matter halo I am an astrochemist/astrobiologist studying chemistry in shape using the Bolshoi simulation carried out by my star formation regions and comets. One exciting area of collaborators. Finally, my third student (David Coss) astrobiological research is the search for organic molecules graduated in May and is now back in Tennessee. and water, important for life as we know it, in planet- forming disks around young stars that are similar to the Philip B. Fraundorf young and comets. I use a technique called My research involves materials, atomic resolution infrared spectroscopy to study these. As primitive solar microscopes, computer simulations, and conceptual system objects, comets are also important for understanding strategies for doing both nanoscale detective work and how the solar system formed and evolved. In collaboration curriculum modernization. We’ve long provided the region with Dr. Boncho Bonev at Catholic University of America, I with tools not otherwise available for examining the received NSF funding in 2012 to continue our comet work, nanostructure of a growing variety of specimen types, concentrating on chemical species that provide information including for example aerosol catalysts, integrated circuit about formation environment. I published a chemical silicon, carbon nanotubes, extraterrestrial materials, composition study of comet C/2007 N3 (Lulin) in Gibb et al. ferrofluids for drug delivery, and most recently ultrahigh 2012, Astrophysical Journal, v750, 102. In 2013 and 2014 temperature materials for leading-edge surfaces on we are observing the bright comet ISON with both Keck II hypersonic aircraft. This has helped put graduates into and the Infrared Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea, HI as applied physics internships and jobs with companies that well as a very close approach of comet 209P to Earth. include MEMC, Seagate, Martin-Marietta, Mitsubishi With graduate student Logan Brown and several Silicon-America, Motorola, and Cabot Electronics. Of four undergraduate students, we are working on a study of water recent intellectual challenges, one lies at the intersection in the protoplanetary disks around objects DR Tau and AA 5

Tau. In 2013, we used a technique called spectro-astrometry cell preparation techniques, with two dedicated argon glove to determine the precise location of the water in DR Tau, the boxes for air-sensitive materials preparation and first such detection for water (Brown et al. 2013, characterization. Astrophysical Journal, v770, p.14). Coupled with modeling, The most recent list of publications from the group may we will be able to determine how much water is in the disk, be found at: http://www.umsl.edu/~majzoube/ where it is located, and its temperature. We also reported the first detection of methane (CH4) in a protoplanetary disk Bruce A. Wilking (Gibb & Horne 2013, Astrophysical Journal, v776, p.28). We have completed our second optical spectroscopic http://www.umsl.edu/~gibbe/, [email protected] survey of a star-forming region: first Rho Ophiuchi in 2011 and now Serpens. These studies formed the bulk of Kristen Bob L. Henson Erickson’s Ph.D. dissertation which she successfully My activities now are mostly teaching and service for our defended this November and were performed in department. In part, I have been staying on past my normal collaboration with alumnus Michael Meyer who served on retirement age in order to help with instruction. Our number Kristen’s Ph.D. committee. The Serpens study will be of physics faculty at the professorial level is at the lowest submitted for publication this year. Both studies identified number that it has been since 1967. Currently, my teaching new young stars as well as explored the frequency of loads are heavy with twenty credit hours per academic year. circumstellar disks and the distributions of ages and masses. Soon, I hope to retire from teaching in order to spend full- Along with doctoral student Tim Sullivan., we have begun a time on some mathematical physics research problems, collaboration with astronomers at the U.S. Naval which I have been studying. However, as of this date my Observatory in Flagstaff to analyze infrared images of the retirement plans are incomplete. Rho Ophiuchi region taken over the past decade in order to derive proper motions and the velocity dispersion for this Eric Majzoub young . I am a tenured faculty member in the Department of http://www.umsl.edu/~wilkingb, [email protected] Physics and Astronomy, and I hold a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. The research focus in our group is on the study and design of Alumni Information new materials for energy storage and conversion, such as hydrogen-storage materials, lithium-ion batteries, and 1979 pseudo- and super-capacitors. We employ a combined William B. Harms, Sr. (B.S.) began working as a Junior experimental and computational approach, utilizing first- Medical Physicist at the Washington University School of principles techniques to understand the electronic, Medicine (WUSM) soon after graduation. After several mechanical, and thermodynamic properties of the materials promotions, he was appointed as an Instructor of Radiation we study. Physics in 1985 which he maintained until leaving WUSM I also serve as the Associate Director of the Center for in 2002. During his time at WUSM he completed his Nanoscience, and along with the director George Gokel, professional certification in Radiation Oncology Physics by have been re-organizing the center to more directly utilize the American Board of Medical Physics and served as the strengths of the CNS members from Chemistry, Physics, Associate Director of the NCI Funded Radiation Therapy and Biochemistry and Biology. Working in the CNS Oncology Group 3-D QA Center and Image-Guided Therapy provides opportunities for hands-on work with large Center. He authored 2 peer-reviewed papers and co- industrial partners such as Boeing, Monsanto, Purina, and authored 29 additional papers in the field of radiation others. oncology physics. Mr. Harms departed Washington Hydrogen storage research in the Majzoub group University in 2002 to form a consulting medical physics remains funded through the Department of Energy, Office of company, C&H Physics, LLC, with a former colleague from Basic Energy Sciences, with a new grant in collaboration Washington University. C&H Physics provides radiation with Washington University involving both Mark Conradi oncology physics services to various hospitals and free- (Physics) and Sophia Hayes (Chemistry). This project standing clinics in the region. He lives in St. Charles, MO currently employs one graduate student. The focus of the with his wife of 38 years, Mary Harms. He enjoys flying his research is to identify important structural features of the 1966 Piper Cherokee for pleasure, occasionally for work and hydrogen storage compound sodium alanate, or NaAlH4, at also to transport rescue animals as a pilot for the Pilots N temperatures and pressures of hydrogen that cause structural Paws organization. phase changes and coordination changes between Al and H atoms. These structures are important for the understanding 1981 of the decomposition mechanisms of NaAlH4, and other Marty Mlynczak (B.S.) is a senior research scientist in the similar compounds such as LiBH4, and Mg(BH4)2, for Climate Science Branch at NASA Langley Research Center example. in Hampton, VA. He recorded a radio spot for UMSL for We have recently been awarded two grants from the UM- the "I Chose UMSL" campaign. Marty was chosen to System, one Research Board, and one Intercampus receive an UMSL Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007. Interdisciplinary Award, for work on Li-ion battery materials. In our laboratory, we have state-of-the art coin- 6

1991 time, he also designs and builds instrumentation to use for Tim Giblin (BS, M.S. 1993) has started a new faculty biannual Arctic research he conducts with Radford position in the Department of Physics at the U.S. Air Force University in Barrow, Alaska. He has been able to take six Academy in Colorado Springs. high school students to do field research in Alaska with Radford University students. He is also currently in the 1999 selection process to take two students to Alaska in March Gábor Balázsi (M.S., Ph.D. 2001) has accepted a position at 2014. As a result of the research conducted in Alaska, he has Stony Brook University beginning June 1, 2014. He will be been able to send students to present at meetings of the the Henry Laufer Endowed Associate Professor of Physical American Geophysical Union. and Quantitative Biology. 2013 2000 Nick Kraftor (B.S.) is doing mobile application and database Adam Tournier (B.S., M.S. 2002, Ph.D. 2005) has been development in St. Louis for Enterprise Holdings. promoted to Associate Professor of Physics with tenure at McKendree University in Lebanon, IL. Contributors 2012-2013

2001 Jon Bailey (B.S.) has been an assistant research professor in Thanks to all for your generous contributions to the lattice gauge theory group in the Department of Physics our scholarship and gift funds! Please contact us if and Astronomy at Seoul National University for the past 3 you have made a contribution in the past year and your years. With colleagues at Seoul National U. and Fermilab, name does not appear. he is working on calculations of the strong force to test the Standard Model description of quark flavor and CP Dr. Mary M. Allen violation. Uncertainties in hadronic matrix elements James M. and Janice E. Baker presently limit the precision of determinations of the Dr. Gábor and Erika S. Balázsi Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix. His group is using Boeing Company lattice gauge theory, simulating quantum chromodynamics Michael J. Burk and Lynda E. Busse (QCD) on a discrete spacetime lattice, to calculate the Frank R. Cook required hadronic matrix elements. The next generation of David R. and Kimberly A. Dawkins flavor experiments and lattice QCD calculations are poised Dr. Lu Fei and Dr. Lucy Wenzhong He to perform subpercent level tests of the Standard Model Dr. Bernard J. and Marjorie A. Feldman flavor sector and begin constraining beyond-the-Standard- Model scenarios. Jon reports that he “enjoys Korean food, William B. and Mary C. Harms the Korean language, and the inevitable, incidental exposure David J. Harris and Margaret A. Diekemper to Korean culture, history, religions, and politics.” Sally A. Harris Dr. Bo He and Xueqin Fan 2006 Hershey Foods Corporation Tim Mason (M.S., Ph.D. 2011) is a Systems Engineer at Charles F. and Carol R. Jones BioMerieux working on the Vitek 2 invitro-diagnostics Mark E. and Jeannie M. Kushina instrument. Tara L. Lehmann 2007 Steven L. and Frances C. Lopata Danish Adil (B.S.) completed his Ph.D. degree at the James A. and Laura S. Malke University of Missouri-Columbia in August. The title of his Richard J. Melka dissertation was “Light Scattering Studies of Organic Field Dennis J. and Pauline H. Moore Effect Transistors” and his advisor was Prof. Suchi Guha. Vincent G. Musielak Dr. Ron J. and Martha E. Pieper Dan Blake (M.S.) is the primary physics and astronomy teacher at the Southwest Virginia Governor's School for Kelly L. Pisane science, mathematics, and technology, a school for gifted Dr. Lawrence W. and Mary E. Ramsey students to attend and take high level courses in a tailored James M. Roedder environment. He also is the Network Administrator for the Dr. Chang Shen and Haoran Yi school, along with webmaster, student information system Dr. James C. Simpson programmer, security systems coordinator, graphic designer, Howard W. and LaDonna R. Thoele and he sponsors over 20 student research projects every Dr. Justin R. Trice year. As part of science fairs, he has had two students Dr. Michael J. Way eligible to compete in the Intel International Science Fair Robert G. Wilking over the last 4 years. His courses for the high school are all Don C. and Susan Winter dual enrolled through New River Community College or Radford University. In addition he also teaches a section of Dr. Zhongyu Zhang introduction to physics at Radford University. In his spare 7

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