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| Dr. Jason Best is an Associate
Professor of Astrophysics at Shepherd College. He earned a Bachelors
of Science degree in astronomy and astrophysics from Indiana
University in Bloomington, IN, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in
astronomy and astrophysics from The Pennsylvania State University in
University Park, PA. His research focuses on the study of galactic
evolution and the large-scale structure of the universe. He has
published in the Astrophysical Journal and the Astronomical
Society of the Pacific's Mercury magazine. He has received
research grants from the National Science Foundation and has been
awarded a faculty fellowship from Indiana University, during which
time he conducted research in CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment at
the I.U. Advanced Visualization Laboratory. He is a member of the
American Astronomical Society, Phi Kappa Phi, and Sigma Xi, the
Scientific Research Society. |
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