Detailed Vita Dr
VITA
FOR DR. JAMES A. ROBERTS, PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS
I. EDUCATIONAL HISTORY
1. Ph. D., The University of Oklahoma, 1967, Engineering Physics.
2. M. S. Louisiana Polytechnic University, 1959, Physics.
3. B. S. Louisiana Polytechnic University, 1958, Physics.
4. Diploma U. S. A. F. K-Series Bombing and Navigational
Computers, Lowry A. F. B., Colorado, 1953.
5. Diploma U. S. A. F. Airborne RADAR and Electronics
Fundamentals, Keesler A. F. B., Mississippi, 1951.
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Diploma West Columbia High School, West Columbia, TX, 1950.
II. Date and place of birth,
June 2, 1932, East Columbia, Texas.
III. Employment History
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North Texas State University, 1967-present, Assistant Professor, 1967, Associate Professor, 1969, Professor, 1979.
University of Texas Health Science Center, Dallas, TX, Summer, 1979.
University of Texas at Arlington, 1961-1964, Assistant Professor.
Harding College, Searcy, AR, 1960-61, Asst Prof Mathematics and Physics.
Louisiana Polytechnic University, Ruston, LA, 1958-1960, Inst. of Physics
IV. Student Involvement and Publications-Over 95 research papers published in refereed journals. These papers represent the joint efforts of myself and twenty doctoral candidates and twenty masters candidates produced during my tenure at the University of North Texas.
V. Awards/Hobbies-
1. Faculty Development Award (North Texas State University).
1. Australian Grant for Travel (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 1976).
2. Ford Foundation Teaching Award (University of Oklahoma, 1966).
3. Undergraduate Development Grant in Astronomy I (1988)
4. Undergraduate Development Grant in Astronomy II (1998)
5. Faculty Development Award (North Texas State University).
6. Nominated to represent the University of North Texas in state wide competition for the Minnie Steven Piper Award for outstanding teaching. (2000)
7. I hold an Extra Class radio amateur operators license and have received numerous diplomas for activities in radio amateur work in the last fifteen years.
8. Nominated 2000 for the outstanding science teaching Skoog state-wide award.
9. Awarded the President's Council Outstanding Teaching Award (2002)
10. Honor Professor, SGA award (2005).
11. Nominated for the Minnie Piper Stevens Award to represent the University of North Texas in statewide competition. (2005)
12. Honor Professor, SGA award (2007).
13. Nominated for the Minnie Piper Stevens Award to represent the University of North Texas (2008)
VI. Research Grants-In the last forty years, I have received over $500,000 in research funds from the Robert A. Welch Foundation and the Faculty Research Committee of University of North Texas to support research. Since 1992, I have received nearly $500,000 in funding to help prepare teachers of science to better teach science.
VII. Teaching Workshop Experience-I have conducted workshops for teachers in training them to teach science and mathematics in the public schools for the past eight years. Over 250 teachers have been impacted through the program directly with at least 10,000 students impacted indirectly by the workshops and the teachers who participate in them. This experience, along with helping and developing the astronomy program at University of North Texas has equipped me to better understand the problems of communicating scientific and mathematical concepts to the masses. My teaching tenure has been dedicated to helping relieve the science deficiency in America in mathematics and science.
FUNDED GRANTS TO JAMES A. ROBERTS
1. The Regional Collaborative for Excellence in Science $100,000
Teaching UNT (2015-2016)
2. The Regional Collaborative for Excellence in Science $100,000
Teaching UNT (2014-2015)
3. The Regional Collaborative for Excellence in Science $100,000
Teaching UNT (2013-2014)
4. The Regional Collaborative for Excellence in Science $103,000
Teaching UNT (2012-2013)
5. The Regional Collaborative for Excellence in Science $115,000
Teaching UNT (2013-2014)
6. The Regional Collaborative for Excellence in Science $121,000
Teaching UNT (2011-2012)
7. The Regional Collaborative for Excellence in Science
Teaching UNT (2010-2011) $141,000
8. The Regional Collaborative for Excellence in Science
Teaching UNT (09-10) $150,000
4. The Regional Collaborative for Excellence in Science
Teaching UNT (08-09) $140,000
5. The Regional Collaborative for Excellence in Science
Teaching UNT (07-08) $126,000
6. The Regional Collaborative for Excellence in Science Teaching (06-07) $80,000
7. Texas Regional Collaborative for Excellence in Science
Teaching(TEA) (05-06) $140,000
8. Vertical Alignment of the Sciences Physics 8-12 $82,000
9. Bridging to TAKS II $32,000
10. Implementation of Texas Inquiry Modules (TIPM) Physics 9-12 (04-05) $80,000
11. Middle-School Science Part I, Grades 6-7(04-05) $80,000
12. Bridging II TAKS ($24,000 2003-04, 24$,000 04-05) $48,000
13. Energy Conversion in Carbon Nanotubes ONR BAA 03-001 (2003-04) $250,000
14. Development of Science (Physics, Mathematics) Learning
15. Centers with Hands-on Using Science Kits (2002). $129,000
16. Texas Regional Collaborative for Excellence in Science
Teaching at UNT, 2002 $65,000
17. The Regional Collaborative for Excellence in Science Teaching UNT
2002-2003 $24,000
18. Toyota Education Foundation (20 awards, total funding, $20,000) $20,000
19. 2001-2002 Learning Centers for Learning Science (Eisenhower) $75,000
18. 2000-2001 Southwestern Bell Foundations $ 5,000
20. 2001-2002 Empowering Science Teachers of Texas (ESTT) NSF $25,000
21. 2000-2001 Radio Astronomy as a Tool for Teaching Science to
Non-Science Majors $5,000
22. 2000-2001 Regional Collaborative for Excellence in Science
Teaching $25,000
23.1999-2000 Workshops in Staff Development in Physics (Regional
Collaborative for Excellence in Science Teaching $45,000
24. 1999-2000 Workshops in Physics Staff Development (Phase IV) $47,000
25. 1998-99 Workshops in Staff Development in Physics (Phase III) $83,000
26. 1998-1999 Teaching with Technology (U. N. T.) $8,000
27. 1998-1999 working With Technology (Casio, Inc.) $5,000
28. 1997-98 Workshops in Staff Development in Physics (Phase II) $90,000
29. 1996-97 Workshops in Staff Development in Physics $109,000
30. 1995-97 Regional Collaborative in Excellence in Science $60,000 Teaching. (With Dr. J. Hajsaleh.)
31. 1994-95 International Collaboration Grant Kyungsung
University, Pusan, Korea $90,000
32. 1993-Fall The Dwight D. Eisenhower Mathematics
Science Grant (Fall Workshops) $12,000
33. 1992-1993 The Dwight D. Eisenhower Mathematics
and Science Grant (Summer Workshops) $20,000
34. 1992-1993 Robert A. Welch Foundation $11,000
35. 1990-1993 Robert A. Welch Foundation $75,000
36. Summer 1988 UID Faculty Research Grant $6,800
37. 1987-90 Robert A. Welch Foundation $75,000
38. 1983-85 Robert A. Welch Foundation $60,000
39. 1982-83 Faculty Research Committee (Special Award) $10,000
40. 1981-83 Robert A. Welch Foundation $64,000
PUBLICATIONS
1. "Linewidth of the Microwave Inversion Spectrum of Ammonia" (with R. L. Legan, E. Rinehart and C. C. Lin) J. Chem. Phys. 3, 4337-4345 (1965).
2. "Doppler Contribution to Microwave Linewidths" (with R. W. Parsons)
J. Mol. Spectrosc. 18, 412-417 (1965).
3. "Self and Foreign Gas Broadening of the ΔJ=O←l Line in the Rotation- al Spectrum of Methyl Chlorlde" (wlth R. W. Parsons) J. Mol. Spectrosc. 20, 195-197 (1966).
4. "Linewidth of the Rotational Spectra of Symmetric-Top Molecules " (with T. K. Tung and C. C. Lin) J. Chem. Phys. 48, 4046-4049 (1968).
.5. "Hyperfine structure in the Inversion Spectrum of NH3" J. Mol. Spectrosc. 30, 351-353 (1969).
6. "An Improved Microwave Linewidth Spectrometer" Rev. Sci. Instrum. .40, 935-938 (1969).
7. "Linewidth Parameters for the 1≤J≤8, K=l Lines of the Inversion Spectrum. of NH3" J. Phys. Chem. 74, 1923-1926 (1970).
8. "An Experimental Study of Microwave Spectral Lines in Gases" (with R. P. Netterfield and R. W. Parsons) J. Phys. B; Atomic and Molecular Physics, London, Engl.) 5, 146-167 (1972).
9. "Experimental Microwave Collision Diameters in the Rotational Spectrum of H2CO" (with D. V. Rogers) J. Mol. Spectrosc. 46, 200-206 (1973).
10. "Cavity Perturbation .Technique for Determining the Presence of Molecular Ions of Helium In a d. c. Discharge Plasma" (with M. W. Congleton and R. H. Freeman) J. Chem. Phys. 59, 866-872 (1973).
11. "Linewidth Parameters ΔJ=+1, 0≤J≤43, Rotational Transitions of the Sulfur Dioxide Molecule" (with W. H. Yang and B. J. Tejwani) J. Chem. Phys. 58, 3797-4916 (1973).
12. "Ion-Acoustic Waves in a Bounded Plasma" (with B. S. Tang) J. Appl. Phys. 44, 3796-3797 (1973).
13. "Electron Collision Frequency Observations in H2, D2 , N2, CO2 and Argon at Pressures of 0.4-2.0 Torr (with R. H. Freeman) Plasma Physics 16, 377-383 (1974).
14. "A Method for measuring Relaxation Times for Collision Processes in the Surface Layers of Conductors and Semi-Conductors" (with L. W. Childress and K. H. Hong) Phys. Lett. 46A, 433-434 (1974).
15 ."Microwave Properties of Liquids and Solids Using a Microwave Cavity as a Probe" (with K. H. Hong) J. Appl. Phys. 45, 2452-2456 (1974).
16. "The Effect of the Sample Iris in Determination of Dielectric Constants Using a Microwave Cavity" (with K. H. Hong) J. Korean Physical Society 7, (1974).
17. "Microwave Collision Diameters for Q-Branch Transitions in Monomeric Formaldehyde" (with A. C. Venkatachar) J. Mol. Spectrosc. 57, 166- 68 (1975).
18. "Microwave Collision Diameters for Q-Branch Transitions in Formic Acid" (with A. C. Venkatachar) J. Mol. Spectrosc. 62, 3364-3365 (1975).
19. "The Measurement of Pressure Induced Shifts in the ΔJ=0←1 Transition of CH3CI at Various Temperatures" (with I. R. Dagg, Canada, and R. W. Parsons, Australia) J. Mol. Spectrosc. 63, 241-248 (1976).
2O. "Linewidth Parameters in the Rotational Spectrum of Methyl Cyanide" (with D. L. Swindle) J. Mol. Spectrosc. 77,94-101 (1979).
21. "Dielectric Changes in Hyaluronate Solutions at Microwave Frequencies as a Function of Concentration, System Ph and Temperature" (with S. K. Jani and J. N. Dahiya) J. Biopolymers 19, 934-944 (1980).
22. "Phase Transition Studies in Polar and Non-Polar Liquids at Microwave Frequencies" (with J. N. Dahiya and S. K. Jani) J. Chem. Phys. 743609-3615 (1981).
23. "Molecular Probing at Microwave Frequencies as a Means of Studying Atmospheric Motion and Composition" Proceedings of the 17 h Space Congress, April 30-May 1,2,1980, Coco Beach, FL, Section 2, 31-3& (1980).
24. "Linewidth Parameters in the Rotational Spectrum of CH 3C15N" (with J. K. Messer) J. Mol. Spectrosc. 88, 231-233 (1982).
25 ."Theoretical and Experimental Pressure Shifts in Some Select Rotational Transltlons of the Methyl Cyanlde Molecule" (Wlth J. K. Messer and B. Khoobehi) J. Chem. Phys. J. Chem. Phys. 76, 2914-2]!8 (1982).
26. "Dipole Moment of the ΔJ=+l Excited State of the CH3C14N Molecule" (with J. K. Messer) J. Chem. Phys. 96, 351-352 (1982).
27. "Linewidth Parameters in the Rotational Spectrum of Nitrogen Dioxide" (with M. N. Moazzen-Ahmadi) J. Mol. Spectrosc. 96, 336-341 (1982).
28. "Infrared-Microwave Double Resonance of the S02 and NO2 Molecules" Spectral Line Shapes Z Walter De Gruyter and Co., Berlin (1982).
29. "Inrared-Microwave Double Resonance Probing of the Population-depopulation of Rotational States in the NO2 Molecule" (with B. Khoobehi) J. Mol. Spectrosc. 97, 227-233 (1983).
30. "Pressure Broadening Theory o~ Asymmetric-Top Molecules Using the Methods of Irreducible Tensor Operators" (With M. N. Moazzen-Ahmadi) J. Radiative and Quant. Spectrosc and Rad. Transfer 30, 229-243 (1983).
31. "Observation of Hysteresis Effect in Detuning of a Resonant Microwave Cavity" (with v. Prakash) J. Chem. Phys. 80, 4562-4563 (1984).
32. "On the Calculation of Pressure-Broadened Linewidths for symmetric- op Molecules using the Modified Anderson Theory" (with J. K. Messer) J Mol. Spectrosc. 104, 308-314 (1984).
33. "The Microwave Spectrum of Propyne in the 17-70 GHz Region for the Ground, vIO=1 and v9=1 Vibrational States" (with J. M. Ware) J. Chem. Phys. 81, 1215-1219 (1984).
34. "The Microwave Spectrum of Propyne in the 17-90 GHz Region for the vIO=2 VibrationaL State" (with J. M. Ware) J. Chem. Phys. 82, 5-7 (1985).
35. "Experimental Linewidth Parameters and Dipole Moments for the propyne Molecule in the vg and vIO Vibrational States" (with v. Prakash) J. Chem. Phys. 116, 17-22 (1986).
36. "The Microwave Spectrum of Propyne in the νIO=4 Vibrational State" (with v. Prakash) J. Chem. Phys. 84, 1193-1195 (1986).
37. "Perturbation of a Resonant Cavity with Select Alcohol Vapors" (with V. Prakash) J. Microwave Power 23, 45-50 (1986).
38. "Dielectric Response of Germinating Wheat Seeds Using a Resonant Microwave Cavity as a Probe" (with F. L. Shafer and D. Smith) J. Microwave Power 24, 167-177 (1986).
39. "The Microwave Spectrum of Propyne in the 17-53 GHz Region for the vIO=3 Vibrational State" (with v. Prakash) J. Chem. Phys. 84, 1193-1195 (1986).
40. "The Microwave Spectrum of Propyne in the 17-53 GHz Region for the vIO=4 Vibrational State" (with v. Prakash and W. M. Rhee) J. Chem. Phys. 120, 169-174 (1986).
41. "The Microwave Spectrum of Propyne in the 17-72 GHz Region for the v9=2 Vibrational State" (with W. M. Rhee) J. Chem. Phys. 85, 6940-6944
(1986).
42. "Quadrupole Structure in the Rotational Spectrum of the v8=1 and 2 and Ground Vibrational Levels in CH3C14N for the Frequency Range 17-56 GHz" (with I. An and W. M. Rhee) J. Chem. Phys. 86, 4725-4729 (1987).
43. "A Comprehensive Model for Predicting the Rotational Spectrum of Propyne in the vIO=1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Vibrational States" (with W. M. Rhee) J. Mol. Spectrosc. 126, 359-369 (1987).
44. "Rotation Components of the v8=1, 2 and 3 and Ground Vibrational Levels of CH3C N for the Frequency Range 17-75 GHz" (with F. Sabeh, I. An and W. M. Rhee) J. Mol. Spectrosc. 125, 348-357 (1987).
45. "Dielectric Properties and Phase Transition Study of the K-15 Liquid Crystal Under the Influence of an Applied External Field Using a Microwave Cavity Spectrometer" (with G. K. Johri and F. Sabeh) 23rd Microwave Power Symposium, Ottawa, Canada; J. Microwave Power (1988).
46. "Dielectric Response of Material Media Using the Detuning of a Resonant.Microwave Cavity" (with F. Shafer and D. Smith) Proceedings of the IEEE, Transactions on Electrical Insulators, El 23, 571-578 (1988).
47. "Microwave Spectra of C Substituted Methyl Cyanide for the Ground and v8=1, 2 Vibrational Levels for the Frequency Range 17-56 GHz" (With H. Tam and I. An), J. Mol. Spectrosc. 129, 202-215 (1988).
48. "The Vibration-Rotation Microwave Spectrum of Tagged Acetonitrile in the Region 17 to 75 GHz for the Ground, v8 =1 and 2 vibrational States" (With H. S. Tam), J. Mol. Spectrosc. 134, 281-289 (1989).
49. "Rotational Components of the vI0=1 and Ground Vibrational Levels .of Propyne with C Substitutions for the Frequency Range 17-75 GHz" (With H. Tam and I. An), J. Mol. Spectrosc. 135, 349-358 (1989).
50. "Calculation of the Rotational Constants A and C for a Slightly Perturbed C3v Symmetric Top Molecule" (With H. S. Tam), Structural Chemistry, 1, 211-216 (1990).
51. "A Study of Experimental and Theoretical Shifts in a Resonant Microwave Cavity Loaded With Polar and Non-Polar Molecules in Gas Phase" (with G. K. Johri and R. Ngoui) J. Microwave Power Inst. 24, 227-235 (1990).
52. "Microwave Spectra of the 13CH313C15N and 13CH312C15N Molecules in