Barbara Sue Ryden
Cosmos Mariner: Destination Unknown
After graduating from
Neenah High School in Neenah, WI (class of '79),
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 did stints as a postdoc at
the CfA
and CITA.
I am currently an associate professor in the
department of astronomy at
The Ohio State University.
My main research interests are in
galaxies and in the
large scale structure of the universe. My textbook,
Introduction to Cosmology, was published
by Addison Wesley in 2002, and has won the
Chambliss Astronomical
Writing Award of the American Astronomical Society.
The prequel, entitled Foundations of Astrophysics, by
Barbara Ryden and Bradley Peterson, will be published by
Addison Wesley in spring 2009.
For more details of my life, grab a copy of my
curriculum vitae
(PostScript format).
