Michael Weinstein


Michael Weinstein

Associate Teaching Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Joined Connecticut College: 2003

Education
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University


Specializations

First-year physics ("studio")

Introductory astronomy lectures and labs

Michael Weinstein has taught first-year "studio" physics, which combines lectures with hands-on labs, since 2005. He continues to teach introductory astronomy labs and lectures to non-science majors, explaining how science is applied to the cosmos to reveal its mysteries.

Weinstein obtained his doctorate in astronomy from the Pennsylvania State University in August of 2002, after doing his thesis on an algorithm to obtain photometric redshifts for quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

While at Penn State, he taught numerous introductory astronomy lectures and labs; presented several public lectures for the astronomy department's Friedman Lecture Series and for the AstroFest summer festival; served as the K-12 Outreach Coordinator for five years; and gave hundreds of hours of planetarium shows to kids of all ages.

He is also in charge of setting up, taking down and purchasing introductory physics lab equipment for the department.

View the Physics, Astronomy and Geophysics department website.

Majoring in Physics.

Contact Michael Weinstein

Mailing Address

Michael Weinstein
Connecticut College
Box # PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & GEOPHYSICS/F. W. Olin Science Center
270 Mohegan Ave.
New London, CT 06320

Office

308 F. W. Olin Science Center