Department
of Physics and Astronomy
P.O. Box 26170
Danford at uncg.edu
(336) 334-3308
Office
332 Petty Building
- Office Hours: Tuesday (2 - 3 pm), Wednesday (3:30 – 4:30 pm),
- But.....I'm in my office most days from 9 am until 5:30 pm or later. Call first to be sure I am available (334-3308). Some Monday and Thursday afternoons are not a good time to find me as I often have labs then.
Professional Interests
- Observational astronomy including stellar evolution in star clusters and RR Lyrae variables
- CCD photometry
- Horizontal branch stars and population II abundances
Education
- A. B. in Physics; Dartmouth College (1967)
- M. S. in Physics; Yale University (1970)
- Ph.D. in Astronomy; Yale University (1976)
- The Zen of Education (Andrew Abbott)
- Help Wanted (Daniel Goldin)
- Deep Beauty
- New Beginnings (David Warren)
- Dyson : Pure Mathematics
- The Abandoned Generation
- Bloom: Why College?
- Pericles
- Updike: Voyager 2
- Updike: Ode to Crystalization
- William Bennett on American culture
- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: A World Split Apart
- Technology and Education
- Goldbug Variations
- Danford--Black--Crosby Family Tree
- Alfred Noyes
Send email to Steve Danford (danford at uncg.edu)