General Physics (PHY
141)
Professor Carey
Woodward joined the
UW-Fond du Lac faculty
in the fall of 2006. In
addition to teaching and
advising, he is a member
of the campus Budget
Committee.
In collaboration with
the space physics group
at UW-Madison, he
has done computer-based
research on the
interpretation of
geocoronal Balmer-alpha
emission.
His previous college
teaching experiences
include full-time
positions at UW-Fox
Valley and Edgewood
College, and
part-time/summer classes
at MATC, UW-Madison,
UW-Marathon County,
UW-Washington County and
UW-Waukesha County.
Professor Woodward
has also taught at
the Ulysses S. Grant
Foundation at Yale
University (a summer
high school program for
gifted & talented inner
city high school
students) and the
Physics Learning Program
at UW-Madison (a
tutorial program for
at-risk students in
introductory physics).
He has conducted
astronomical research
full-time for several
years, primarily
studying Jupiter's moon
Io and the Io plasma
torus. He has published
a number of papers,
including one in
Science, and has spent
many long nights at the
telescopes of Kitt Peak,
Arizona. His personal
interests include Morris
dancing, homebrewing,
and geocaching.
