To make an advising appointment with me, just call the departmental office at 257-6722 or contact me directly.

I have been actively involved in advising undergraduate physics majors for the past several years. I have never been particularly comfortable giving students career advice, but have been pleased to find that they generally do not want it. My advisees usually come to me with more mundane concerns; how to fulfill requirements, how to get around seemingly obscure regulations; and how to reconcile problems with particular teachers. I am perfectly comfortable helping students through such difficulties, and have developed an easy working relationship with most of my advisees. I am not one for drumming up enthusiasm for any particular academic program among the students who see me. My job, as I see it, is to help them with problems and to be a person they can talk to when they have difficulties or unfulfilled expectations of academic life.

Occasionally, I have tried to encourage the most successful undergraduate students to try their hand at an undergraduate research project, or to find summer employment as a research assistant. But that's about as far as I'm willing to go in the advice department. After all, advise is cheap; it's help that's hard to find!