I received a BA ('83) from Northwestern University, where I was a student in the Integrated Science Program. My PhD ('87) is from the department of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University. I served terms as a postdoc at the CfA and CITA. I am currently a professor in the department of astronomy at The Ohio State University, where I serve as a facilitator at AstroCoffee. My main research interests are in galaxies and in the large scale structure of the universe. I've also written a pair of textbooks. Introduction to Cosmology won the first Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award of the American Astronomical Society. Foundations of Astrophysics, written with Brad Peterson, was published in 2009. For more details of my life, grab a copy of my curriculum vitae (PDF).