Sigh, first test in my Physics II calculus level class and about 1/2 got the net charge of a hydrogen atom wrong with a picture showing 1 proton and 1 electron. This class primarily serves engineer, math, and computer science majors...

TCU is closed due to bad weather conditions. We have wet roads and subfreezing temperatures. All in-person and online classes are canceled till Friday morning. Get home safe everyone!

Wait, the US Senate wants us to finally get rid of the annoying time switch and make daylight savings permanent?!?!??! Sign me up for this! House, the ball is in your court, please make this happen! #TimeShiftsSuck #SunshineProtectionAct nytimes.com/2022/03/15/us/…

Finally finished creating my Physics II final. I'm so glad I had time work through the created problems before tomorrow. In one of the 1st drafts of a problem, I accidently broke (classical) physics... Luckily, all particles are now safely moving slower than light speed :-)

Come see Natalie Myers now at the AAS poster session!

Come see Taylor Spoo NOW at the AAS poster session!

Yay Lauren! She did research with my team this summer studying the debris from exploding stars that are being ejected out of the Large Magellanic galaxy. #REU

My summer REU student Katie Anthony giving her end of project talk on how she characterized the neutral hydrogen in a supernovae explosion wind in a nearby galaxy! Great job Katie!

Are you an undergrad in Physics that is interested learning about graduate school and professions in physics? Join us at the #TCU_CUWiP meeting! Applications are due Oct 10. cuwip.tcu.edu

My graduate student April Horton just got an NSF GRFP! I'm so proud of her.

Looks like I'll be teaching Master's level Cosmology in the Fall. Anyone have any textbook suggestions?

It's my pleasure to announce that TCU Phys & Astro is hiring a tenure track astronomy faculty for Fall 2024. This is an open call & sub fields and types of astronomy will be considered. We especially encourage those from underrepresented groups to apply. jobregister.aas.org/ad/b880fb24

Here is one of my undergrads presenting their research at a TCU symposium. Great job Stone Gebhart! He's helping us with our Hubble Space Telescope Legacy Archive project on the galactic winds of the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.

We have tenure track opening for an astronomer at TCU Phys & Astro for someone to start Fall 2024. This is an open call for all areas of the field. jobregister.aas.org/ad/b880fb24

On my way home from Green Bank Observatory. Had a blast! Amazing views from the top! This telescope has a 100 meter diameter and I was 165 meters above the ground in this picture. Excellent views!!

Feel free to message me if you want to meet and chat about this position. It is an open call for astronomers of any subfield. TCU is an R2 university and TCU Phys & Astro has an active PhD program. Both Peter Frinchaboy, Ph.D. and I are part of Sloan Digital Sky Surveys IV and V.

Come check out my graduate student Andrew Glaze’s research in the iPoster session NOW at monitor 150. He is connecting galaxies to their environments using Sloan Digital Sky Surveys/MaNGA Survey and Hubble Space Telescope

Great job Andrew Glaze on your first AAS poster presentation! He is working on connecting what is happening within galaxies with the gas that surrounds them. #AAS243 TCU Phys & Astro

TCU is hiring a tenure track astronomer. Our deadline is TOMORROW (Jan 19th). jobregister.aas.org/ad/b880fb24

My postdoc Suraj Poudel explored the galactic wind emanating from the 30 Doradus starburst region in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy. He found that some of the gas is moving pretty fast away from that galaxy toward ours STScI Hubble #ULLYSES arxiv.org/abs/2503.05968