Dr. Driscoll has been with the Ashtabula Campus since 2007.  He teaches the two-semester General College Physics sequence as well as the Physics for Health Technologies class required for the Physical Therapy Assistant and Respiratory Therapy Assistant majors.  In addition, he teaches several Kent Core courses, including Seven Ideas that Shook the Universe, Frontiers in Astronomy, Physics in Entertainment and the Arts, and Physical Science.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Physics from Case Western Reserve University in 2004
• M.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from The Pennsylvania State University in 1997
• B.S. in Physics/Astronomy and Mathematics from Mount Union College in 1995

Research Interests:

Dr. Driscoll's Master's Thesis was in Computational Relativity, modeling the gravitational radiation produced by the infall of a compact object like a white dwarf into a massive black hole. For his Ph.D., he worked on the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) , an experiment designed to detect a kind of dark matter called a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle, or WIMP.

After graduation, Dr. Driscoll worked as a postdoc on the Solar Tower Atmospheric Cherenkov Effect Experiment (STACEE), a gamma-ray telescope which was located in Albuquerque, NM.

Publications:

D. D. Driscoll, "Search for dark matter annihilation in Draco with the Solar Tower Atmospheric Cherenkov Effect Experiment," in Physical Review D, vol. 78, issue 8, 2008.

D. D. Driscoll, et al., "Recent Observations of the Draco Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy with the Solar Tower Atmospheric Cherenkov Effect Experiment," 2007.

J. E. Carson, et al., "The Energy Spectrum of the Blazar Markarian 421 Above 130 GeV," 2007.

D. S. Akerib, et al., "Limits on spin-independent WIMP-nucleon interactions from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search," Phys.Rev.D 73, 011102 (2006).