There is something to say about the sense of calm and peace I feel when I see the clear night sky. I never have more wonder than when I look up at a dark sky, dark enough to see. The why’s and how’s are so abundant, so free flowing. What an incredible space to find clarity. I came into the world of physics through astronomy. I received my bachelor’s degree in astrophysics from UC Berkeley and while I was at Cal I had the great fortune to work under Dr. Janet Luhmann in the space sciences labs studying where solar energetic particles originated from (the corona during a coronal mass ejection or the surface of the Sun during a flare).
In graduate school, I decided to switch my field of focus from space physics to physics education research (PER) under the guidance of Dr. Ramon Lopez. I was given a...
