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Dr. Driscoll has been with the Ashtabula Campus since 2007.  He teaches the two-semester General College Physics sequence as well as the Physics for Health Technologies class required for the Physical Therapy Assistant and Respiratory Therapy Assistant majors.  In addition, he teaches several ������Ƶ Core courses, including Seven Ideas that Shook the Universe, Frontiers in Astronomy, Physics in Entertainment and the Arts, and Physical Science.

Education:

Ph.D. in Physics from Case Western Reserve University in 2004
M.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from The Pennsylvania ������Ƶ University in 1997
B.S. in Physics/Astronomy and Mathematics from Mount Union College in 1995

Research Interests:

Dr. Driscoll's Master's Thesis was in Computational Relativity, modeling the gravitational radiation produced by the infall of a compact object like a white dwarf into a massive black hole. For his Ph.D., he worked on the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) , an experiment designed to detect a kind of dark matter called a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle, or WIMP.

After graduation, Dr. Driscoll worked as a postdoc on the Solar Tower Atmospheric Cherenkov Effect Experiment (STACEE), a gamma-ray telescope which was located in Albuquerque, NM.

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities:

• C. Mueller, et al., “Very high-energy observations of the two high-frequency peaked BL Lac objects 1ES 1218+304 and H 1426+428,” Astropart.Phys. 34, 674-678 (2011).
• D.S. Akerib, et al., “A Low-Threshold analysis of CDMS shallow-site data.” Phys.Rev.D 82, 122004 (2010).
• A. Jarvis, et al., “Very High-Energy Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts with STACEE,” Astrophys.J. 722, 862-870 (2010).
• J. Zweerink, et al., “Pulsed VHE γ-ray Emission Constraints for PSR B1951+32 from STACEE Observations,” Astrophys.J. 693, 1128-1132 (2009).
• D. Hanna, et al., “OSETI with STACEE: A Search for Nanosecond Optical Transients from Nearby Stars,” Astrobio. 9(4), 345-357, (2009).
• D.D. Driscoll, et al., “Search for Dark Matter Annihilation in Draco with STACEE,” Phys.Rev.D 78, 087101 (2008).
• T.L. Lindner, et al., “Very high energy observation of the BL Lac objects 3C 66A and OJ 287,” Astropart.Phys. 28, 338 (2007).
• J.E. Carson, et al., “The Energy Spectrum of the Blazar Markarian 421 Above 130 GeV,” Astrophys.J. 662, 199 (2007).
• D.A. Williams, et al., “Very high energy follow-up observations of gamma-ray bursts,” Nuovo Cim. 121B, 1619-1621 (2006).
• D.S. Akerib et al.. “Limits on spin-independent WIMP-nucleon interactions from the two-tower run of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search”, Phys.Rev.D 73, 011102 (2006).
• D.S. Akerib et al., “Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon interactions from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search”, Phys.Rev.Lett. 96, 011302 (2006).
• D.S. Akerib et al., “Exclusion Limits on the WIMP-Nucleon Cross-Section from the First Run of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search in the Soudan Underground Lab”, Phys.Rev.D 72, 052009 (2005).
• D.S. Akerib et al., “First Results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search in the Soudan Underground Lab”, Phys.Rev.Lett. 93, 211301 (2004).
• D.S. Akerib et al., “New Results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment”, Phys.Rev.D 68, 082002 (2003).
• Abrams, et al. “Exclusion Limits of the WIMP-Nucleon Cross-Section from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search” Phys.Rev.D 66, 122003 (2002).
• Abusaidi, et al. “Exclusion Limits on the WIMP-Nucleon Cross-Section from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search” Phys.Rev.Lett. 84, 5699-5703 (2000).

Research Areas:

• Dark Matter
• Gamma-ray Astronomy
• Cosmic-ray Astronomy