Timothy R. Young

Department of Physics and Astrophysics telephone: 701-777-2911 University of North Dakota fax: 701-777-3523 Grand Forks, ND 58202 email: [email protected]

1. Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison Physics, Math and Astrophysics B.S 1987

University of Oklahoma Physics and Astrophysics PhD 1994

Wichita State University Synthetic Stellar Spectra 1994 – 1995

University of Tokyo Supernova Hydrodynamics 1995 – 1998

University of Arizona Supernova Neutrino Transport 1998 – 2000

2. Professional Experience

2012-present Director of the Erwin W. Martens Observatory (Telescope Facility)

2006-present Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of North Dakota

2000-2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of North Dakota

1998-2000 Postdoctoral Research, Supernova/Neutrino research, Department of Astronomy, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona

3/1-11/1 1998 NSF-JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship, Supernova research, University of Tokyo, Japan

1997-1998 COE Postdoctoral Fellowship, Supernova research, NAO, Japan

1995-1997 NSF-JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship, Supernova research, University of Tokyo, Japan

1994-1995 Postdoctoral Research, Red Giant Atmospheres, Wichita State University, KS

1987-1994 Supernova research, Graduate Student, University of Oklahoma

1986-1987 Independent research of the HI Warp of the Galaxy, University of Wisconsin- Madison

1986 Small Scale HI Shells, National Radio Astronomical Observatory, VA Timothy R. Young

3. Courses Taught

Spring 2013 Physics 252 – University Physics, 4 credit hours, 110 students. (SCALE-UP) Physics 461 – Introductory Astrophysics, 3 credit hours. 4 students. Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, Continuing Ed. and Online.

Fall 2012 Physics 460 - Introduction to Astrophysics, 3 credit hours, 4 students. Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, Continuing Ed. and Online.

Summer 2012 Physics 211 – College Physics I 4 credit hours. Physics 161 – Introductory College Physics I 4 credit hours.

Spring 2012 Physics 252 – University Physics, 4 credit hours, 80 students. Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, Continuing Ed. and Online.

Fall 2011 Physics 434 – Nuclear Physics, 6 students. Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, Continuing Ed. and Online.

Spring 2011 Physics 461 – Introductory Astrophysics, 3 credit hours. 4 students. Physics 492 – Special topics – Rocketry, 3 students. Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, Continuing Ed. and Online.

Fall 2010 Physics 252 – University Physics, 4 credit hours, 80 students. Physics 460 - Introduction to Astrophysics, 3 credit hours, 4 students. Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, Continuing Ed. and Online. Research, Physics 590 – Dean Smith, Brent Thomson.

Spring 2010 (Departmental leave) Physics 252C – University Physics II, 4 credit hours. DEDP 25 students.

Fall 2009 (Departmental leave) Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, Continuing Ed. and Online.

Spring 2009 Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, Continuing Ed. and Online. Physics 461 - Introduction to Astrophysics II, 3 credit hours, 5 students.

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Fall 2008 Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, Continuing Ed. and Online. Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, 3 credit hours. Physics 460, Introduction to Astrophysics I, 3 credit hours, 5 students. Research, Physics 590 – Dean Smith, Brent Thomson.

Spring 2008 Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, Continuing Ed. and Online. Physics 252 – University Physics II, 4 credit hours. 81 students. Physics 252C – University Physics II, 4 credit hours. Continuing Ed. 15 students. Physics 402 – Computers in Physics, 3 Credit hours, 5 students. Physics 415 – Research Experience for Undergraduates. 2 students. Physics 492 – Research Experience for Undergraduates. 3 students. Research, Physics 590 – Dean Smith, Brent Thomson.

Fall 2007 Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, Continuing Ed. and Online. Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, 3 credit hours. 62 students. Physics 434 – Nuclear Physics, 3 credit hours. 7 students. Physics 549 – Seminar. 1 student. Research, Physics 590 – Dean Smith, Brent Thomson.

Spring 2007 Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, 3 credit hours Physics 461 - Introduction to Astrophysics II. 4 students. Research, Physics 590 – Dean Smith, Tricia Johnson

Fall 2006, Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, 3 credit hours Physics 460 – Introduction to Astrophysics I. 3 students. Research, Physics 590 – Dean Smith, Tricia Johnson, Sherry Fieber-Bayer.

Spring 2006 Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, 3 credit hours Physics 434 – Nuclear Physics, 3 credit hours. 4 students. Reseach, Physics 590 – Dean Smith, Tricia Johnson, Sherry Fieber-Bayer.

Fall 2005, Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, 3 credit hours Physics 460 – Introduction to Astrophysics I. 3 students. Research, Physics 590 – Dean Smith, Tricia Johnson, Sherry Fieber-Bayer.

Spring 2005 Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, 3 credit hours Physics 461 - Introduction to Astrophysics II. 4 students. Research, Physics 590 – Dean Smith, Tricia Johnson. Timothy R. Young

Fall 2004 Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, 3 credit hours Physics 460 – Introduction to Astrophysics I. 3 students. Special Topics, Physics 520 – 2-D mapping and analysis of SNR’s. 3 credit hours. Research, Physics 590 – Dean Smith, Tricia Johnson, Sherry Fieber-Bayer, Steven Rhen

Summer 2004 Special Problems, Physics 490 – Modeling Gamma-ray Deposition. 3 credit hours.

Spring 2004 Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, 3 credit hours Research, Physics 590 – Dean Smith, Tricia Johnson, Steven Rhen

Fall 2003 Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, 3 credit hours Physics 140 – Physics for Poets, 3 credit hours. Research, Physics 590 – Dean Smith, Tricia Johnson, Sherry Fieber-Bayer, Steven Rhen

Spring 2003 Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, 3 credit hours Physics 461 - Introduction to Astrophysics II. 14 students. Research, Physics 590 – Dean Smith, Tricia Johnson

Fall 2002 Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, 3 credit hours Research, Physics 590 – Dean Smith, Tricia Johnson

Spring 2002 Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, 3 credit hours Research, Physics 590 – Dean Smith, Tricia Johnson

Fall 2001 Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, 3 credit hours Physics 460 - Introduction to Astrophysics II. 14 students.

Spring 2001 Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, 3 credit hours

Fall 2000 Physics 110 – Introductory Astronomy, 3 credit hours

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Undergraduate Advises

1. Shelley Davis – Ronald McNair Program – Shelley is a Native American physics major working on observations of extra solar transiting planets. May 2012 – present

2. Jeremy holter – Observations of supernovae. 2011- 2012

3. Aparna Venkataramanasastry – observations of Supernovae. 2011 – 2012.

4. Michael Sprangler – Our last year of a NSF – REU. Michael set of first observations usign TOAST 2001

5. Tricia Johnson – Physics student took part in observations at TOAST observatory. 2001- 2004.

6. Joel Downs – AURA – Did work on imaging at reducing astronomical images of asteroids and comets. 2003 7. NDSTaR student award – with Carson Lee “Venus Tranist 2004”, $6,000 summer 2004.

8. William Swearson – AURA – “Extra-solar Planet Searches using TOAST”, $5,000 summer 2004.

9. Jay Fisher – NDEPSCoR - AURA studet. Did observations of transiting extrasolar planets. May – Dec. 2006.

The following seven undergraduate students were part the NSF-DOD REU – Research Experience for Undergraduates UND site:

1. Jessica Cox – searching for Extrasolar transiting planets. (I facilited telescope observations). 2. Mark Zastro – An optical afterglow model for type II linear supernovae. (I facilited computer simualtions).

3. Megan Schall – transiting extra solar planets. (I facilited telescope observations).

4. William Swearson – A new model for Type II – linear supernovae. (I facilited computer simualtions).

5. Rebecca Bahnmiller – Correlation between light detected from a gamma ray burst and possible underlying supernova

6. Peter Merkans – CRUST – Crokston UND search telscope (I co-mentred with D. DeMuth and facilited telescope observations).

7. Heather Celga – Search for extra solar transiting planets (I facilited telescope observations). Timothy R. Young

The Following 6 years of competing in the NASA Student Launch Initiative.

2012-2013 (Rocket Payload: SMD & Onboard Video image ground location identification) Brian Badders Adrew Twedten Collin Driscoll Nicole Fitzgerald

2011-2012 (Rocket Payload: Onboard video of propellant burn) Brad Schanche Nicole Thom Nicole Fritzgerald

2010-2011 (Rocket Payload: SMD – NASA’s Space Mission Directorate) Stephanie Colbert Ryan Wolfbang Kyle Hosaluk Nicole Thom Anthony Orzo Ben Storhaug Zach Schiller Robert Jessen Nicole Fitzgerald

2009-2010 (Rocket Payload: Hairy – Antenna array relay system) Matt Voigt Arjay Eve Anthony Orzo Robert Jessen Ryan Wolberg Stephanie Colbert

2008-2009 (Rocket Payload: Balloon – Air bag deployment landing) Matt Voigt Arjay Eve Lindsey Anderson Anthony Orzo Stephanie Colbert Jeffery

2007-2008 (Rocket Payload: Gieger counter) Matt Voigt Arjay Eve Lindsay Anderson Timothy R. Young

Johnathan McClure Kyle Anderson Meagan Schaal Will swearson

STRIPE - Rocket Project (Student Rocket Involvement Project) 2006-2008.We launched 5 large rockets with payloads, including electronic data collections, images and video. This was a ND NASA EPSCoR grant that included NDSU. I ran the entire project.

Matt Voigt Arjay Eve Lindsay Anderson Johnathan McClure Kyle Anderson Meagan Schaal Will swearson

Graduate Student Advising

Chairperson M.S. Committee (Graduated)

1. Steven Rhen. Advisor for M.S. physics, 2005. “An Investigation into Gamma-ray and X- ray Behavior in Supernovae and Related Phenomena”.

2. Sherry Fieber-Bayer (M.S. Physics), 2006.”Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Analysis of Mainbelt X-Asteroid 469 and Mainbelt M-Asteroid 755 Quintilla”.

3. Tricia Johson (M.S.) “Investigating parameterization equations for Type II supernova light curves as a function of explosion energy, ejected mass, progenitor radius, Ni mass and Ni mixing”. 2007.

Chairperson PhD. And M.S. Committee (see expected graduation dates below)

1. Dean Smith (Ph.D.) (graduation May 2014) Research in the area of numerical multidimensional hydrodynamics of binary supernovae numerical simulations in the area of supernova light curves. He is in the process of writing his dissertaiton and should finish in May 2014. Dean has been heavily involved with teaching at various colleges and universiies in the area and has taken him away from writing his dissertaion. I am detrermined to get him back on track and have him graduate in spring 2014.

2. Brent Thompson (Ph.D.)(graduation Dec. 2013) Investigating Quasi Periodic Oscillationa in the Disks of Black Holes.and Neutron Stars. .Has recently re-validate 8 graduate courses. This was a major undertaking and just finished Mid-September 2013. This has taken quite a lot of time over the last 8 months and has delayed Brent’s graduation. In Timothy R. Young

addition Brent is deaf and it has been difficult to communicate thus leeding to a lengthed PhD stay. Brent is set to graduate in Decemnber 2013.

3. Jacob Teffs (M.S.)(Graduating May 2014). Investigating mixing and nuclearsythesis in supernova simulations. Jacob has one publication in review and another in progress. Projectd graduation May 2014.

Member at large PhD. Committee 1. Kirk A. Ogaard (PhD. Computer science) Mining Aircraft Telemetry Data with Evolutionary Algorithms, May 2012. 2. Ahmed Rabbi. (PhD Electrical Engineering) Epileptic Seizure Detection and Prediction From Electroencephalogram Using Neuro-Fuzzy Logic Algorithms. May 2013.

Member of Advising Committee 1. Jennifer Sattler (M.S. Physics), member. 2. Ben Podoll (M.S. Computer Science), Member-at-large. 3. Lohit Gaddampolly (M.S. Computer Science, never graduated). Member-at-large. 4. Richard Hector (M.S.) Graduate in Dec. 2007 in Teaching and Learning. Elementary science teachers and self-efficacy. Member-at-large. 5. Steven Higley (M.S. Space Studies Graduated May 2007). Member-at-large. 6. Kevin Martin (M.S. Ames Research Center, distance Space Studies). Member-at-large 7. Dustin Salentiny (M.S. Computer Science) Pilotless Aircraft: Blind Spots And Near Mid- Air Collisions With Other Aircraft. May 2011. 8. Darren Grau (M.S. Space Studies) 2012. Stellar Spectral Classification of Previously Unclassified Stars GSC 4461-698 and GSC 4466-870. Member-at-large 9. Brian Badders (M.S.) Space Studies, “Rockcoon – feasability study. Member-at-large. 10. Cody Rude (PhD.) Physcis and Astrophysics, “Galaxy Clusters, graduation May 2014.

Employed Graduate Students working with me outside their field 1. Anchi Zhou. Worked on modifying and running supernova similation code to study population III early universe stars. 2001-2002.

Curriculum Development Actitivities

1. Introduction to Astronomy Online through Continuing Education – Phys 110C. I developed the entire online course. 2004-present. 2. Introduction to Astronomy Laboratory Online through Continuing Education – Phys 110LC. I devleoped the whole laboratory course and is expected to be visible in 2014. 3. Introductory Astrophysics Phys 461 – I developed the course and wrote the documentation for acceptance. 4. Computers in Physics Phys 402 – I developed the course and wrote the documentation. 5. Astrophysics Minor – I proposed the minor and wrote the documentation for acceptance. 6. Scale – up classroom for University Phsyics II - Phys 252 – I proposed to teach this course in the new scale-up room 61 O’Kelly. I have taught the course in Spring 2013 and Timothy R. Young

am currently teaching there this semester. Over the last year I have spent time developing activities to be conducted in the room by using the physical attributes of the room. The students sit and round tables as subatomic particles and I make use of the geometry to teach electric and magnetic fields and forces.

Curiculum development grants

1. Introductory Astronomy Laboratory – I wrote and collected astronomy labs to use in the course. 2. Computers in Physics – I developed modular course material to use as needed.

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4 Service

Department 1. Physics Undergraduate Committee – Designing a Minor in Astronomy 2002, 2003, 2006- 2008, 2013 2. Physics Graduate Committee 2002 2003 2004, 2008 3. Science Saturday April 28, 2002 and February 20, 2003. 4. Physics Day Coordinator 2004, 2005 5. Physics Day Co-Coordinator/presenter 2008 6. Department Physics Library Committee 2006, 2007 7. Chair Astronphysics Faculty Search Committee 2006 8. Faculty Search Committee 2007, 2008 9. Faculty Advisor to the UND Society of Physics Students 2008-2013 10. Department Direct Assessment of Teaching 2011- 2013. 11. Department Grievance 2011 – 2013. 12. Astrophysics position Search Committee 2011 13. Colloquium Coordinator 2011

College 1. College Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee 2008-2009

University 1. Key Policy Administration Committee 2004-2013

Professional Associations 1. Review Three Nature Articles: Nature, 449, 992, 2006. 2. Textbook Review: Undergraduate Textbook: Bennett: Comic Perspectives Fundamentals: Two Chapters with report. January 2009.

Memberships 1. American Astronomical Society since 1993 2. Sigma Xi since 2000 3. IEEE since 2015 4. Association of Science Teacher Educators (former) 5. National Association of Research in Science Teaching (former)

Community 1. Faculty Advisor to the UND Astronomy Team NSAS 2000-2015 2. Advisor to Dakota Science Center Circle of Life, July 8-17, 2002. 3. President of NDRA (North Dakota Rocket Association) 2000 – 2015. 4. Team America Rocketry Contest North Dakota Mentor/coordinator 2000-2015 5. Space Day Coordinator 2004 and Feb 14, 2006 120 Girl Scouts each year. 6. Eclipse Webcast interview into 5th grade classroom live from Antalya, Turkey, 2006. 7. Beyond Earth: Moon Madness and Earth Touches Space, Full Day museum type exhibits, 2008. Timothy R. Young

5 Publications

Refereed Publications

1. Young, T.R., Branch, D., 1988, ``Supernovae 1909A: A Precedent for SN 1987A?'', Nature, 333, 305. 2. Young, T.R., Branch, D., 1989, ``Absolute Light Curves of Type II Supernovae'', ApJ, 342, L79. 3. Baron, E., Young, T.R., Branch, D., 1993, ``On The Progenitor of SN 1984L'', ApJ, 409, 417. 4. Young, T.R., Baron, E., Branch, D., 1993, ``SN 1984L and its Problematic Progenitor'' in First Symposium On Nuclear Physics in the Universe, ed. M.R. Strayer (IOP Publishing Ltd,). 5. Young, T.R., 1994, ``A Parameter Study of Absolute Type II Supernova Light Curves'', Ph.D., University of Oklahoma. 6. Young, T.R., Baron, E., Branch, D., 1994, ``The Light Curves of SN 1993J and SN 1994I'', ApJ, 449, L51. 7. Baron, E., Hauschidt, P.H., Young, T.R., 1995, ``Supernova 1993J: One year later'', Physics Reports, 256, 23. 8. Young, T.R., Nomoto, K., Shigeyama, T., Iwamoto, I., 1996, ``SN Ia light curve models vs. observations'', Cosmological Constant and the Evolution of the Universe, eds. Sato, K., Suginhara, T., Sugiyama, N., 315. 9. Nomoto, K., Iwamoto, K.,Nakasato, N., Thieleman, F.-K., Brachwitz, F., Young, T., et al., 1997, ``Type Ia supernovae: Nucleosynthesis and constraints on progenitors'', Thermonuclear Supernovae, eds. Ruiz-Lapuente, P., Canal, R., Isern, J., NATO ASI 486, 349. 10. Nomoto, K., Iwamoto, K., Young, T.R., Nakasato, N., Suzuki, T., 1997, ``Type Ib-Ic- IIb-IIL supernovae: Common envelope evolution, instabilities, and circumstellar interaction'', Thermonuclear Supernovae, eds. Ruiz-Lapuente, P., Canal, R., Isern, J., NATO ASI 486, 839. 11. Iwamoto, K., Young, T.R., Nakasato, N., Shigeyama, T., Nomoto, K., Hachisu, I., Saio, H., 1997, ``Instabilities and Mixing in SN 1993J'', ApJ, 477, 865. 12. Young, T.R., Shigeyama, T., Suzuki, T., 1997, ``A double supernova model for the Vela supernova remnant'',X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy of Cosmic Hot Plasmas'', eds. Makino, F. and Mitsuda, K., 405. 13. Young, T.R., Nomoto, K., Mazzali, P.A., Iwamoto, K., Turatto, M., 1998, ``Low 56Ni Ejection in Type II 14. Supernovae'', Origin of Matter and Evolution of Galaxies, eds. Kubono, S., Kajino, T., Nomoto, K., Tanihata, I., 318. Timothy R. Young

15. Turatto, M., Mazzali, P.A., Young, T.R., Nomoto, K., Koichi, K., et al., 1998, ``The Peculiar Type II Supernova 1997D:a case for very low Ni mass'', ApJ, 498, L129. 16. Galama, T.J., Vreeswijk, P.M., van Paradijs, J., Kouveliotou, Augusteijn, T., Bohnhardt, H.,Brewer, J.P., Doublier, V., Gonzalez, J.-F., Leibundgut, B., Lidman, C., Hainaut, O.R., Patat, F., Heise, J., in't Zand, J., Hurley, K., Groot, P.J., Strom, R.G., Mazzali, P.A., Iwamoto, K., Nomoto, K., Umeda, H., Nakamura, T., Young, T.R., et al., 1998, ``An Unusual Supernovae in the Error Box of the gamma-ray Burst of 25 April 1998'', Nature, 395, 670. 17. Iwamoto, K., Mazzali P.A., Nomoto, Umeda, H., Nakamura, T., Patat F., Danziger, I.J., Young, T.R., et al., 1998, ``A hypernova model for the supernova associated with the gamma-ray burst of 25 April 1998'', Nature, 395, 672. 18. Young, T.R., Shigeyama, T., 1999, ``Binary supernova: A theoretical study of double explosions'', Astronomische Nachrichten, 320, 345. August. (I developed the idea and ran simulations and wrote the article) 19. Turatto, M., Suzuki, T. Mazzali, P. A., Benetti, S., Cappellaro, E., Danziger, I. J., Nomoto, K., Nakamura, T., Young, T. R., Patat, F. Turatto, M., 1999 "The Properties of Supernova 1997CY Associated with GRB 970514", ApJL, 534, L57. (I ran supernova simulations and contributed to writing) 20. Burrows, A., Young, T., Pinto, P., Eastman, R., Thompson, T., 2000, ``Supernova neutrinos and a new algorithm for neutrino transport'', ApJ, 539, 865. (I ran simulations and helped write the article) 21. Burrows, A. & Young, T., 2000, ``Supernova Neutrinos'', Physica Scripta, T85, 127. (I helped write the article and do simulations). 22. Burrows, A. & Young, T., 2000, ``Neutrinos and Supernova Theory'', Physics Reports, 333, 63. (I helped write the article) 23. Mazzali, P. A., Cappellaro, E., Turatto, M., Benetti, S., Patat, F., Danziger, I. J., Nomoto, K., Young, T. R., Iwamoto, K, 2000, ``Inhomogeneity of SN types: results, implications and future prospects'', Mem. Soc. Astron. Ital., 71, 411. ( I ran all supernova simulations). 24. Marsh, R., Young, T.R., Johnson, T., Smith, D., 2004, ``Enhancement of Small Telescope Images Using Super Resolution Techniques'', PASP, 116, 477. (I took observations and helped in analysis and writing article) 25. Young, T.R., 2004, ``A Parameter Study Of Type II Light Curves Using 6 M Cores'', ApJ, 617, 1233. 26. Young, T.R., Smith, D. & Johnson, T.A., 2005, ``An Optical Afterglow Model for Bright Linear Type II Supernovae'', ApJLetters, 625, L87. (I invented concept and wrote the article, students ran simulations) 27. Young, T.R., 2006, Shockwave Caught On Camera'', Nature, 449, 992, 2006. 28. Branch, D., Jeffery, D., Young, T.R., Baron, E., 2006, ``Hydrogen in Type Ic Supernovae?'', PASP, 118, 791. ( I helped with analysis and writing). Timothy R. Young

29. Young, T.R., and M. Guy, “The Moon's Phases and the Self Shadow”, Science and Children, vol. 46, num. 1, 30-35, Sep 2008. (I applied concept and wrote the article) 30. T.R. Young, T. Johnson, T.M. Lawlor, and J. MacDonald, “Population III Supernova Simulations Of Single And Binary Scenarios And Reference To SN2006gy,” The First Stars III, eds. T. Abel, A. Heger, and B. O’Shea, American Institute of Physics, FIRST STARS III: AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 990, pp. 233-237 (2008). (My students and I produced the simulated stars and explosions). 31. T.M. Lawlor, T.R. Young, and J. MacDonald, “10 Msolar Population III Single and Binary Evolution Models”, The First Stars III, eds. T. Abel, A. Heger, and B. O’Shea, American Institute of Physics, FIRST STARS III: AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 990, pp. 238-240 (2008). (My student and I modeled all supernovae explosions) 32. Lawlor, T., Young, T.R., Johnson, T.A., MacDonald, J., “Single and Binary Evolution of Massive Population III stars and Their Supernova Explosions”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2008). (My student and I modeled all supernovae explosions) 33. Guy, M., and Young, T.R., “Creating Eclipses: Using Scale Models to Explore How Eclipses Happen”, Science Activities, 47, 75-82 (2010). (I developed pieces of the learning model and helped write the article) 34. Kleiser, Io K. W.; Poznanski, Dovi; Kasen, Daniel; Young, Timothy R., and 9 others. “Peculiar Type II supernovae from blue supergiants”, MNRAS, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 415, 372. (2011). (I provided all SN simulations). 35. Young, T.R., and M. Guy, “Discovering NET forces all around you with a portable force indicator. ‘May the force be with you!’”, Science and Children, vol. 49, num. 2, (2011). (I developed the concept and wrote the article) 36. Lawlor, T., Young, T.R., Teffs, J., and MacDonald, J., “The effects of convection criteria on the evolution of Population III stars and the detectability of their supernovae, MNRAS, Volume 450, Issue 2, p.1618-1630, 2015. (I constructed all models and ran simulations using radiation-hydrodynamic computer codes. 37. Young, T.R. and Guy, M., 2012, “A Two Year Longitudinal study of Elementary Students’ Understanding of the Cause of Lunar Phases”, JARST, to be submitted. (I took and analyzed data for 3 years and also developed conceptual ideas in science education.)

U.S. Patents

1. Askelson, Trapnell, Theisen, Marsh, Young, and Reza, “Airspace Risk Mitigation System”, Patent No. US 8,368,584 B2, issued 2013. (I produced 13 claims numbered 4- 16 out of the 16 total claims in the patent with my Monte Carlo simulation).

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Books

1. Barkhouse and Young, “Learning Astronomy”, 2013, Kendall Hunt Publishing. (We divide the book chapters in half). Textbook for a general course in introductory astronomy.

Published Non-Refereed

1. Introductory Astronomy Laboratory Manual, Physics 110L. Young, T.R., Wiley Custom Services, Copyright 2005. (I designed and fit the manual to the course based on my lectures.)

Published Telescope Observations

1. Young, T.R., Reddy, V., and Johnson, T., “13 Asteroid Observations”, Publications of the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Nov. 2003, page 49852. 2. Young, T.R., Johnson, T., and Reddy, V., “Comet CK02T070 Observations”, Minor Planet Electronic Circular, MPEC 2003 – T48. 3. Young, T.R., Johnson, T., and Reddy, V., “Comet Observations”, Minor Planet Electronic Circular, MPEC 2003 – S104. 4. Young, T.R., Downs, J., Johnson, T., and Reddy, V., “12 Asteroid Observations”, Publications of the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Sept. 2003, Page 50131. (In every publication I had taken the images at the telescope and reduced the photometric data and submitted results to the Minor Planet Center. My students would assist me when they had time.)

Educational Products -1

Website Featuring Webcasting Eclipses and Transits: I developed the concept of webcasting the Venus transit in India in 2004. I asked Ron Marsh to join me and we approached the VP of research and were funded. Our webcasts are internationally know and we have devoted followers around the world. All together Ron Marsh and myself have completed 18 expeditions for under $20,000 in total external funding. For example of how efficient we are it usually takes a cast of 30 people and thousands of dollars in funds for each expedition. Ron has developed a website that hosts all our expeditions and media from around the world. We have had press conferences in Panama City, front page newspaper article in Delhi, radio shows in Madrid, and tour buses in China. The adventureswill keep continuing. http://sems.und.edu

1. Venus Transit Delhi, India June 8 2004 2. Total Lunar Eclipse Grand Forks, ND Oct 28 2004. Timothy R. Young

3. Hydrid Solar Eclipse Panama City, Panama April 8, 2005 4. Annular Solar Eclipse Madrid, Spain Oct 3 2005. 5. Total Solar Eclipse Antalya, Turkey March 29, 2006 6. Annular Solar Eclipse, Cayene, French Guiana, Sept. 22, 2006 7. Mercury Transit, Grand Forks, ND, Nov. 8 2006. 8. Total Lunar Eclipse, Rome Italy, March 3, 2007. 9. Total Lunar Eclispe , Las Vegas, NV, August 28, 2007. 10. Total Lunar Eclispe , Grand Forks, ND, Feb. 20, 2008. 11. Total Solar Eclipse, Weinan, China, August 1, 2008 12. Annular Solar Eclipse Jakarta, Indonesia. Jan 26, 2009 13. Total Solar Eclipse, shanghai China, July 22, 2009 14. Total Lunar Eclipse, Grand Forks, ND, Dec. 21, 2010. 15. Total Lunar Eclipse, Grand Forks, ND, Dec. 10, 2011. 16. Annular Solar Eclipse Redding, CA May 20 2011 17. Venus Transit Anchorage, Alaska June 5, 2010 18. Total Solar Eclipse, Cairns, Australia, Nov 13, 2012. 19. Total Lunar Eclipse, Grand Forks, ND, April, 15, 2014. 20. Total Lunar Eclipse, Grand Forks, ND, Oct. 8, 2014.

Educational Products - 2

Special Museum-type Events - Beyond Earth: Moon Madness and Earth Touches Space, Full Day museum type exhibits, March and April 2008, at the University Children’s Center. These were produced as experiential activities for elementary students. 13 activities were provided by Dr. Mark Guy and me. I was the lead developer, organizer and master of ceremonies at the events.

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6 Professional Presentations

National and Internations Presentations

Posters Sessions 1. Milford, C. R.; Donohue, P. J.; Young, T. R, “Dakota Skies, Astronomy and Linking Learning to Life through Technology” AAS, Jan. 7-11, 2003, Seattle, WA. 2. Young, T.R., Thrall, R., Johnson, T., Thomson, B., American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WA., Jan. 7-11, 2003, ”Light Curves of Supernovae 1999gi and 1999em”. 3. Smith, D. D.; Young, T. R.; Johnson, T. A.An Optical Afterglow Model for Bright Linear Type II Supernovae”, AAS, May 2006, Minneapolis, MN. 4. Johnson, T. A.; Young, T. R.Statistical Equations For Determining Parameters For Type II Plateau Supernovae Light Curves”, AAS, May 2006, Minneapolis, MN. 5. Lawlor, T. M.; MacDonald, J.; Young, T. R., “The Effects of Mass Transfer on Massive AGB Stars”, AAS, May 2006, Minneapolis, MN. 6. Fisher, Jay; Young, T. R., Observation of Transiting Extrasolar Planets and Gamma-ray Bursts with Robotic Telescopes, AAS Jan. 2007. 7. Young, T.R., Lawlor, T., McDonald, J., Young, T.A, American Astronomical Society Meeting, Honolulu, HI, “Population III Supernova Light Curves”, May 2007 8. Lawlor, MacDonald, Young, 10 M☉ Population III Single and Binary Evolution Models First Stars III meeting, Santa Fe, NM. July 2007. 9. Guy, M., Young, T.R., NARST (National Association for Research in Science Teaching), “A Longitudinal Study of Elementary Students’ Understandings of Lunar Concepts Related to Moon Phases”. Baltimore, MD, March 30-April 2, 2008 10. Young T.R., Guy, M. Munski, L., Young, T.A., “Beyond Earth NSF grant” AAS Washington, DC. Jan 6-10, 2010. 11. Kovacs, Young, Davis, Young, DeMuth, “The Puzzling Transit Depth of Wasp-33”, Life from Stars, Gainesville, FL. April 3 2013. 12. Lawlor, Timothy M.; Young, T. R.; MacDonald, J.; Johnson, T. A. Population III Stars: Evolution and Explosions, American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting 2014.

Oral Presentations Invited Talk 1. T. R. Young, T. A. Johnson, T. M. Lawlor, and J. MacDonald,”Population III Supernova Simulations Of Single And Binary Scenarios And Reference To SN2006gy”, First Stars III meeting,. Santa Fe, NM, July 15, 2007, AIP Conf. Proc. 990, pp. 233-237, (published April 8, 2008) Timothy R. Young

2. Young, Timothy; Farnsworth, Bruce; Grabe, Cindy, Guy, Mark; “Exploring New Technology Tools to Enhance Astronomy Teaching & Learning in Grades 3 – 8 Classrooms: Year One Implementation”, SITTE Meeting Austin TX, March 7, 2012.

Oral Presentation at Conference

1. Young, T. R.; Smith, D.; Johnson, T. A.A New Model For Type II Linear Supernovae”, AAS, May 2005, Minneapolis, MN. 2. Young, T.R., Guy, M., American Astronomical Society Meeting, Seattle, WA. “5th Grade Moon Study”, Jan. 2007. 3. Young, T., Guy, M., “A Three Year Longitudinal Study of Elementary Students’ Understandings of Lunar Concepts Related to Moon Phases”, NARST Garden Grove, CA, April 17-21, 2009. 4. Guy, M., Young. T.R., ASTE (Association Science Teacher Educators), “5th Grade Perceptions of the Moon Phases”. Jan. 17-20, 2010. 5. Young, T.R., Guy, M., Miller, B., “Small Group Interviews: Gaining Valuable Insights into Elementary Students’ Astronomy Understandings and Thinking March 21-24, 2010 Philadelphia, PA, NARST. 6. Young, T.R., Guy, M., Froelich, K., Baker Big-Back, C., AAS Washington, DC. Jan. 3-9, 2011. Oral presentation, Beyond Earth: Weaving Science and indigenous Culture – 1 year NSF grant. American Astronomical Society. 7. Young, T.R., Guy, M., Hartman, R., McGinnis, R.., ASTE (Association Science Teacher Educators), Oral Workshop, Beyond Earth: Weaving Western and Native Science. Jan. 19-22, 2011. Minneapolis, MN. 8. Young, T.R., Guy, M., Grabe, C., Froelich, K., Baker Big-Back, C., NARST (National Association for Research in Science Teaching), “Beyond Earth: Fostering Native Science Knowledge at Multiple Cultural/Geographical sites in informal settings. April 3-6, 2011 Orlando, FL. 9. Young, T.R., Guy, M., ASTE conference for NTLI award, “SITE: Simulation Immersion in Teacher Education”, Clearwater, FL, Jan. 10, 2012. 10. Young, T.R., Guy, M., SITTE conference for NTLI award, “SITE: Simulation Immersion in Teacher Education”, Austin, TX, March 5-9, 2012. 11. Young, T.R., Guy, M., Grabe, Farnsworth, B., Immersive Technology to Promote the Teaching & Learning of Core Astronomy Concepts”, ASTE (Association Science Teacher Educators), Oral Workshop”, Jan. 19-22, 2013. Charleston, SC. 12. Young, T.R., Van Eck, R., Guy, M., Brewster, S., Winger, A., “Project NEO: Assessing and Changing Pre-Service Teacher Science Knowledge with a Video Game.” The 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies - ICALT2014, Athens, Greece, July 7-9, 2014.

Oral Presentation at Colloquium 1. University of Oklahoma, “light curves of Supernovae”, Oct. 2005. 2. University of Minnesota, “Supernovae and GRBs”, March 2006. 3. University of Delaware invited Colloquium, “A new model for Type II-L supernovae”, Newark, DE, Nov. 5, 2007. 4. Queens’ University Belfast, “Supernova Light Curves”, Belfast, Ireland, Sept. 20, 2009. Timothy R. Young

5. University of Delaware invited Colloquium, Newark, DE, “Pop III Supernova Light Curves”, Nov. 12, 2009.

Regional 1) Several presentations for ND STRIPE Rocket project, Engineering and Physics Depts. April 2007 and Sept. 2007. Moorhead, MN, NDSU, Grand Forks.

State/Local Oral Presentations Colloquium 1. NDSU, “TOAST telescope”, Oct. 20, 2002. 2. UND Physics Colloquium, “TOAST – Transient Object Automated Search Telescope”, Jan 23, 2003. 3. Joint NS-SD EPSCoR Conference in Fargo, Sept., 2003. Joel Downs Presented our work “Asteroid Search and Simulation.” 4. UND graduate Scholarly Forum - Dean Smith presented our work “Enhancement of Small Telescope Images using Super-resolution Techniques”, March. 2004. 5. UND – Space Studies: “Gamma Ray Burst Detection”, Oct. 22, 2003. 6. NDSU – Physics Department: “Gamma Ray Burst Detection”, Nov. 10, 2004. 7. RRHS – Conference on teaching. “Robotic Telescope”, Oct. 23, 2003.UND Astrophysics and Astronomy talk, “Black Holes: A Mysterious Talk”, Jan. 22, 2008. 8. UND Astrophysics and Astronomy talk, “Time Travelers”, Oct. 22, 2009. 9. Teaching Conference, UND Sept. 29, 2011. Invited talk, “Teaching Lunar phases, Observations versus simulations”. 10. Performances for the portable planetarium took place on three occasions. For UND OLLIE program 2010, NDSU - STEM Kids 2011, ND EPSCoR 2012. In each performance I wrote and gave the presentation in collaboration with Dr. M. Guy. 11. UND Observatory Banquet, “A New UND Facility: Forest River Observatory”, March 25, 2013. 12. ND Science Teachers Association, STEAM ahead, “V-STEM a new DPI grant”, March 2015. 13. UND Astrophysics and Astronomy Colloquium, “STEM in Astronomy”, April 27, 2015.

Public Lecture Series – A four two-hour lecture series on Relativity, 2005 & 2011 1. Schwalm, W., Young, T.R., Relativity Lecture Series, Oct. 11, “Special Relativity”, Oct. 18, “Curvature of space-time”, Nov. 1 “Gravity”, Nov. 11 “Black holes”, 2005. 2. Schwalm, W., Young, T.R., Relativity Lecture Series, October 4, “Special Relativity”, Oct. 11, “Geometry of Space-time”, Oct. 18 “General Relativity and Gravity”, Oct. 25 “Cosmology, Gravity Waves, and Black holes”, “2011.

Awarded and Invited Lecture 1. Guy, M., Young, T.R., University Lecture Series, “Beyond Earth: Integrating STEM and Native Science to Enhance Learning”, Oct. 3, 2011. 2. Young, T.R., Guy, M., ASTE conference for NTLI award, “SITE: Simulation Immersion in Teacher Education”, Clearwater, FL, Jan. 10, 2012. Timothy R. Young

3. Young, T.R., Guy, M., SITTE conference for NTLI award, “Exploring New Technology Tools to Enhance Astronomy Teaching & Learning in Grades 3-8 Classrooms: One-year Implementation”, Austin, TX, March 5-9, 2012.

7. Grants and Contracts

Submitted and NOT funded

1. NSF –Ideas Grant, “Mars Rover Landscape and Curriculum”, Submitted Oct. 25, 2002. 2. DOD –. Entitled “Supernova Simulations”. Written with researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Duration 3 years. Budget $250,000. 3. UND faculty seed grants, “Supernova Studies”, $23,000. 2/02-7/02. 4. UND New Faculty Award, “Supernovae, What are the Progenitors?”. $5,000. 5. IDEAS grant – “Mars mission Control”, submitted Oct. 23, 2003. 6. NSF CAREERS Grant, “Supernovae Studies of Type II, Ib, and Ic light curves and the Tribal Colleges Observatory”, Submitted July 25, 2003. 7. NSF Grant, “Supernovae Studies of Type II, Ib, and Ic light curves”, Submitted Nov. 15, 2005. $300,00 8. NSF-ISE “SEMS – Technologically enhance moon kits.” Submitted June 21, 2006. 9. AAS Small Research grant – “Clustered Telescopes”, submitted May. 1, 2006. 10. UND Community grants, “Sun Earth Moon System – Learning the phases of the Moon”, $5,000. 2/02-7/02. 11. NASA –Improvement of small telescope images using super resolution techniques, submitted Nov. 2003. 12. NSF-ISE “Beyond Earth: Weaving Science and Indigenous Culture” Submitted June 21, 2007. $1,500,000. 13. UND Seed grants, “LODIS – Light Curve Online Database Interpreting Supernovae”, $39,916. 3/08. 14. NSF – Astrophysics Theory Proposal, “LODIS – Light Curve Online Database Interpreting Supernovae”, $270,005. 12/07. Timothy R. Young

15. UND Office of VP of Research – Dissertation Award for Dean Smith. $24,000. 6/08. 16. NSF – Astrophysics Theory Proposal, “LODIS – Light Curve Online Database Interpreting Supernovae”, $270,000. 12/09. 17. NSF-ISE “Beyond Earth: Weaving Science and Indigenous Culture” Submitted Dec 7, 2010. $2,400,000. 18. NSF – Astrophysics Theory Proposal, “LODIS – Light Curve Online Database Interpreting Supernovae”, $270,000. 11/10. 19. UND Seed grants, “LODIS – Light Curve Online Database Interpreting Supernovae”, $39,916. 9/10. 20. NASA “Beyond Earth: Weaving Science and Indigenous Culture” Submitted June 20, 2011. $1,500,000. 21. NSF “Beyond Earth: Weaving Science and Indigenous Culture” Submitted Dec.15, 2012. $2,500,000. 22. NSF “REU Site In Condensed matter and Physics & Astrophysics”, Co-PI, Submitted Aug 28, 2013. $278,639. 23. NSF – “Heliophysics Graduate Program at University of North Dakota”. Jan 2015. $1.5 M for 4 years.

Pending as of May 1, 2015 1. NSF – DRL – STEM + C. “Measuring and Improving the Efficiency of Tomorrow’s Teachers to Integrate Computer Science into Science Education”, $789,410, Start 1/2106 for 2 years.

Funded Grants

1. NASA- EPSCoR - $20,000. Supernova Light curves of Population III stars. Jan. 2001 – Aug. 2001. 2. NASA-EPSCoR, seed grant, $12,599 for 6 months. “TOAST (Transient Objects Automated Search Telescope)”. Feb. 2002 – June 2002 3. NSF-EPSCoR, seed grant, $15,000 for 8 months. “Supernova Studies”. June 2002- Jan. 2003. 4. AAS Small Grant Awards, $5,000 for “TOAST”. 12” Meade Telescope. May 2002 5. Summer Instructional Development Professorship, $3,000, “Revising the Introductory Astronomy Labs”, July 2002-Aug.2002. 6. UND-SSAC, Publication Grant, $1,200. “Supernova Light Curve Studies”, March 2002. 7. NASA-EPSCoR, $15,000. “Extra-solar Planet Detection with UND’s Small Telescopes”. June 2003-April 2004. 8. Dean VP Research Award - UND, $14,359 for “Venus Transit 2004, India Expedition”. April 2004. 9. Dean Student and Outreach Services - UND, $500 for “Venus Transi 2004, India Expedition”. April 2004. Timothy R. Young

10. UND-SSAC, Travel Grant, $590. “Supernova Light Curve Studies”, March 2002. 11. AURA student award – with William Swearson “Extra-solar Planet Searches using TOAST”, $5,000 summer 2004. 12. NDSTaR student award – with Carson Lee “Venus Tranist 2004”, $6,000 summer 2004. 13. NSF-DMR REU – Research Experience for Undergraduate, Co-PI, $250,000 for 3-years, 2005-2008. 14. NASA EPSCoR, North Dakota Student Rocket Initiative, $25,000. February 2006. 15. NDEPSCoR-AURA, $7,000. Jay Fisher “Extra-solar Planet Detection with UND’s TOAST Telescope”. May 2006-Dec. 2006. 16. Dean A&S College Research Award - UND, $3,500 for “Learning the Moons phases and the TSE of March 29, 2006”. 17. UND-SSAC, Travel Grant, $680. “Total Solar Eclipse – Turkey Expedition”, March 2006”. 18. UND-SSAC, Scholarly Grant, $1000. “Total Solar Eclipse – Turkey Expedition”, March 2006. 19. NDEPSCoR – Computer Grid Applications Conference, Austin, TX Dec. 4-10, 2005. $1,500. 20. American Astronomical Society. CCD Camera for Telescope 2008. $7,000. 21. UND Equipment funds, $1,200 – Hydraulics for STRIPE rocket project. 2007. 22. UND Curriculum Development grant $3,000, May 2007. 23. SACC Travel Grant Indonesia, 2008, $1,000. 24. SACC travel grant Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2008 $393.75. 25. UND Space Grant $1,500. Travel and participation in Rockon! Workshop, Wallops Space Flight Center, VA, June 22-June 30, 2009. 26. NSF – Beyond Earth: Weaving Science and Indigenous Culture, $100,000 Aug. 2009 – Dec. 2010. 27. State Appropriated Funding in STEM. Project SITE (Simualtion Immersion in Teacher Education), $250K for 2 years. Sept. 2009. 28. Universtiy of Delaware Research Grant, $5000 for Binary Supernovae. Sept. 2009. 29. LBNL, $10,000 for Supernova research, March and May 2010 30. ND Space Grant awards USLI project travel to Huntsville, AL, $3,500. 4/2010. 31. UND Engineering for ULSI rocket $200. April 2010. 32. UND UAS research division, simulation work with collision avoidance, $9,000. Aug. 2010. 33. NASA USLI, $5,000 for Rocket Research for SMD payload. Feb. 2011. 34. ND Space Grant awards USLI project travel to Huntsville, AL, $3,500. 4/2011. 35. UND UAS research division, simulation work with collision avoidance, $7,000. Aug. 2011. 36. ND Space Grant awards USLI project travel to Huntsville, AL, $3,500. April 2012. 37. UND Provost funding for Education project SITE: $20,000 with 2 other contributors $5,000 College of Education, $5,000 Grand Forks Public Schools, Aug. 2012. 38. ND Space Grant awards USLI project travel to Huntsville, AL, $3,500. April 2013. 39. ATK, MN funds for USLI rocket – awarded $3,000, Oct. 2012. 40. SIGMA XI – Research grant - $5000 for Telescope Spectrograph Jan. 2013. 41. UND VP - Office of Research – Telescope Grating - $1,400. June 2013. 42. UND Provost Office – Telescope Project - $11,319. Aug. 2013. Timothy R. Young

43. ND DPI – MSP (Dept. of Education), “VSTEM: Visualizations in Science Technology Engineering and Math”, Co-PI, $338,278, Oct 1, 2013 -2015. 44. GEODOME Project, $35,000 NSF EPSCoR through Title 1 grant in “(INSPIRE) – Native American Science”. PI on just the GEODOME part. August 2014 – Aug 2015. 45. ND Space Grant awards NASA SL project travel to Bonneville Salt Flats, UT, $3,500. 5/14 46. UND RDC, travel to Greece for IEEE conference $1,692. 6/7/2015 47. UND Space Grant, $9,000 for rocket construction and travel to Huntsville, AL. March 2015.

Design and Aquired Funding For Martens Telescope Observatory – Largest Telescope in North Dakota. Major Funds acquired through Alumni (also see partial funding in document on Martens Observatory).

1. $70,000 for PlaneWave 20” telescope. Donor E.W. Martens 2. $30,000 for Technical Innovations Telescope Dome. Donor E.W. Martens 3. $5,000 for Technical Innovations Telescope Dome. Donor E.W. Martens 4. $10,000 for UND Rocket Team from Donor Northrup Grumman.

8 Professional Education and Consulting Activities

1. David Cook NSF workshop, “Computation and Problem Solving in Undergraduate Physics”, Appleton, WI, June 2002. 2. Bush Teaching Scholar, “Conceptual Understanding of the Moon’s Phases: Observational versus Theoretical Models”, 2005. Timothy R. Young

3. ATLAST Item Writing Workshop in designing assessment questions, Chapel Hill, NC, August 7, 2009. 4. Scale-up Workshop, UND, June 2012. 5. NSF: Be a Messenger Workshop, ND EPSCoR, Fargo, ND, May 2013. 6. Developmental Leave Activities (including dates and locations) I. Queen’s University Belfast: Aug 25 – Oct 14, 2009, Belfast, Ireland. I worked with Dr. Stephan Smartt in the Astrophysics department. We worked on supernovae data as compared to simulations. I learned image reduction. II. University of Delaware: Nov. 15 – Dec 15, 2009, Newark, DE. I worked with Dr. Jim MacDonald and Dr. Tim Lawlor (PSU-Brandywine). I integrated a 245 nuclear network into our radiation hydrodynamic code. I learned evolution code. III. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories: Feb 15 – March 15, 2010. Berkeley CA. I worked with Dr. Peter Nugent on modeling of supernova light curves. I learned about the huge surveys and how to run on massively parallel computers.

Consultant Activities 1. Nature Shift! TICG grant, Jan. – Sept., 2002. Developed Robot Lab Island Adventure and discussed topics in Dakota Skies Module. 2. Project NEO – Educational Science game, Triad Media, Inc. 2013. 3. Project NEO – Educational Science game, SBIR NSF with Triad Media, Inc. 2014-2016.

9 International and National Awards International 1. Best Paper Award. Young, T.R., Van Eck, R., Guy, M., Brewster, S., Winger, A., “Project NEO: Assessing and Changing Pre-Service Teacher Science Knowledge with a Video Game.” The 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies - ICALT2014, Athens, Greece, July 7-9, 2014. 2. Best Paper Award. National 1. 2012 Science Education Fellow, NTLI (National Technology Leadership Initiative) presented at ASTE in Jan. 12, 2012 and SITTE conference in Austin, TX on March 8, 2012. 2. USLI – University Student Launch Initiative (also SLP) – NASA Marshall Space Flight Center “participation” awards for each year 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013. 3. USLI – University Student Launch Initiative (also SLP) – NASA Marshall Space Flight Center “Best Looking Rocket” award, 2010.

Local Awards:

1. UND Research Award from IP Commercialization and Economic Development for research in Unmanned Arial Systems, 2010. We developed Risk Mitigation System for Collision Avoidance Systems using Monte Carlo simulations.