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Laurie Kerrigan is a physics teacher at Mercy High School in San Francisco. She wrote her own major in Physiological Chemistry at UC Davis and has a Masters in Special Education. For the last 5 years she has helped develop the Universe Adventure website, which is designed to explain the history of the universe to physics students and the general public. Her physics students test the website each year.
Glen Melnik received a BA at University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Masters at Northwestern University. He presently teaches math and physics at Piedmont High School. For the last 10 years, he has been teaching physics at Piedmont High. Before that, he developed a successful private tutoring service in math, chemistry, and physics on the high school level. For the last 5 years, he has been an active participate in QuarkNet, an organization whose purpose is to educate high school physics teachers in the area of cutting edge particle physics.
Other cosmology workshop instructors include: Laura Guthrie
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Professor George Smoot was co-awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics "for discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation.” He received Bachelor degrees in Mathematics and Physics and a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT. Dr. Smoot has been at the University of California Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1970. He established BCCP in 2006 and is dedicated to promoting global science literacy through the GTA.
Jennifer Perazzo is a Hands On Universe Teacher Leader that has been developing astronomy curriculum at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab. During the school year she is a Science Specialist for an elementary school in Pleasanton, California. She introduces students and teachers to the EU-HOU astronomical image analysis tool, Salsa J - a software program dedicated to image handling and analysis in the classroom.
Sean Fottrell received a Bachelors degree in Values, Technology,
Miles Chen Received a BA in Astrophysics, Physics, and Studio Art from UC Berkeley. He was a Graduate Student Instructor and Researcher at UC Berkeley in the Physics and Astrophysics Departments for 7 years and helped develop curriculum for the Physics 7 series courses at UC Berkeley. He was a High School Teacher 5 years and a member of the founding faculty at The Bay School of San Francisco teaching Physics, Chemistry, Astrophysics, Drawing and Painting.
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