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I am an Assistant Professor of Astrophysics at the
University of Arkansas at Little Rock and
an Adjunct Professor at the
Arkansas Space Center.
My research is focused on the structure, morphology and
dynamics of galaxies and their dark matter halos.
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| My CV can be downloaded here |
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| News and recent developments: |
| Oct 8, 2008: An interview with Earth and Sky about the relationship between spiral arms and supermassive black holes in galaxies. This show has gone out to Earth and Sky's global network of 1,600 radio outlets, and will be heard 12 million times across the globe. Here is a local version of the podcast for you to download. |
| Sep 10, 2008: An interview with KARK 4 news about black holes, dark matter and the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. |
| Aug 25, 2008: Our NASA EPSCoR proposal "A Census of Supermassive Black Holes in the Universe" gets funded. |
| Jun 2, 2008: An interview for the BBC Sky At Night. |
| Jun 2, 2008: Articles published in National Geographic, USA Today, Astronomy Magazine and Sky and Telescope (amongst others) about the relationship between spiral arms and supermassive black holes in galaxies. |
| Apr 8, 2008: An article about spiral arms and supermassive black holes in galaxies by Elise Kleeman of NewScientist.com |
| Oct 2, 2007: A podcast of an episode of the NPR radio show Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow on which I was a guest on Oct 2nd, 2007. (Please be patient, it is a large file) |
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Our work uses data collected at a variety of ground-based and space-based observatories: |
| Hubble Space Telescope
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| Kitt Peak National Observatory
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| Lick Observatory
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| Spitzer Space Telescope
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| Las Campanas Observatory
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| NF Observatory
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| Project Websites: |
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The Arkansas Galaxy Evolution Survey (AGES)
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The Carnegie-Irvine Nearby Galaxies Survey (CINGS)
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The SCUBA HAlf Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES)
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The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS)
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The H-alpha Galaxy Survey (HAGS)
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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)
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