...Afterward, I attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I earned my M.S. in Physics, as well as another M.S. in Agronomy (studying the evolution of herbicide resistance in weeds). I then attended Penn State University, where I earned my Ph.D. in Physics. After my Ph.D., I tau... (read more)
...My undergraduate degrees are in mathematics and physics. When I was a graduate student at Iowa State, I taught first-year physics and earned the prestigious "Outstanding First-Year Teacher Award". Later, I was voted "Top 10% of ISU Graduate Students for Outstanding Teaching" by my students. (read more)