Adopt-A-PhysicistThe Physics Bunch

John Hubisz

John Hubisz• Played baseball and football

in high school• Was offered a one year

contract with the Lynn Red Sox

• Wanted to go to college and study engineering

• Has over 22,000 books in his home library

• Never missed a day of school as a teacher or a student

• Is a member of AAPT (American Association of Physics Teachers)

Education

• Never changed major; just kept adding new ones

• Ph. D. in Physics

• Physics background helped him work on the interface between science and religion/theology

• Favorite lab done in High School—measuring horsepower

Job • First job at age 5 was delivering newspapers• At age 15 began working at the local drugstore• Did theoretical work for Centre for Research in

Earth and Space Science in Toronto• 50+ years as a teacher

– Mostly a physics teacher– Taught other courses such as religion, theology,

mathematics, etc.– First taught in Canada– Taught in High Schools– Employed by North Carolina State University

Accomplished Works

• http://www.science-house.org/middleschool/reviews/reform.html

• http://web.mst.edu/~gbert/tombstone.html

Other Facts

• Thinks physics is interesting

• Doesn’t like when people make mistakes; likes to teach and help them learn why they made that mistake

• Likes to work with middle school aged science classes

David Bernat

David Bernat

• Waits each winter for the Phillies’ opening day

• Lives in Ithaca, New York

• Observes brown dwarf stars

• Works with the 200” Hale Telescope

• Loves to write

Education

• 4th year graduate student in Astronomy at Cornell University

• Undergraduate at Caltech • Had a two year job on Wall Street at Goldman

Sachs calculating quantitative risk• Has a Master’s Degree

Job

• Employed by Cornell University• Observational Astrophysicist and Astronomer• Uses instruments at Palomar Observatory to

observe brown dwarf stars• Uses binary stars to infer the masses of the

brown dwarfs.• Helped confirm/discover five new stars, one

which may have been a gigantic planet (many times larger than Jupiter) in orbit around it

Accomplish Works

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct08/dps.taylor.html

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May08/Phoenix.lander.html

Other Facts

• Always wanted to study Astronomy and Physics

• Has always been fascinated by space and the mystery of the unknown reaches

• Was put in awe by the Stardust and Deep Impact missions by NASA, in which robotic crafts were put into space to orbit a comet

REBECCA SUNDERMAN

Rebecca Sunderman

Has a husband and two children

Spends spare time with her family

Doesn’t like to take her work home

Enjoys computer games and movies

Loves puzzles

Jobs Undergraduate work at Eastern Oregon

State College Graduate work was at large institution,

Oregon State University First teaching job was at Western Oregon

University Second job was at West Virginia Wesleyan Currently employed at Evergreen State

College

Education

Earned her B.S. at Eastern Oregon State College

Earned her Ph.D. at Oregon State University

Accomplished Works

http://serc.carleton.edu/quantskills/workshop06/vacherPPT.html Click on What Time did the Potato Die

Other Facts

Always wanted to be a teacher Interested in material development,

magnetic and electronic properties, and alternative energy.

Has a couple of research students working on outside projects like superconductivity

Most interested in using science to solve problems

Has a former student who is now an official CSI in Tacoma, Washington