Curriculum Vitae

William W McNairy

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Contact information

Department of Physics
Box 90305
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0305		 919-660-2689

Education

DoctorateThe University of Virginia1992
Physics with Highest HonorsUNC-Chapel Hill1983
MathematicsUNC-Chapel Hill1983
FrenchUNC-Chapel Hill1983

Professional Service

  • President-Elect, Officer of NCS-AAPT, March 20, 2005 - present
  • Demonstration Outreach, January 1, 2005 - present
  • Member, Introductory Physics Committee - PHY53/4, 15 January 2003
  • Demonstration Coordinator, Demonstration Facility, 1 January 2003
  • Installation of and Training for PRS at Duke, 23 December 2002
  • Coordinator, Demonstration Outreach, 1 November 2002
  • Organizer, Physics Poster Session, 24 April 2002
  • Advisor, Society of Physics Students, 1 December 2001
  • Advisor, Sigma Pi Sigma, 1 December 2001
  • American Association of Physics Teachers, July 30, 2007 to August 2, 2007
  • Coordinator, Adminstrator of PHY53 and PHY54, August 1, 2003 - May 15, 2006
  • Demonstration Outreach, March 24, 2006
  • Chair, Nominations Committee AAPT, August 1, 2004 - February 1, 2006
  • Prentice Hall: Reviewer of next edition of Giancoli text, March 1, 2005 - November 1, 2005
  • Reveiwer, Wiley & Sons, August 1, 2004 - February 2, 2005
  • Member, Nominations Committee AAPT, December 1, 2003 - December 31, 2004
  • Session Chair for Fall SESAPS meeting, November 13, 2004
  • Reviewer, Prentice Hall, July 1, 2003 - September 30, 2004
  • Center for Instructional Technology: Faculty IT Fellows Program 2003/4, May 1, 2003 - June 1, 2004
  • Chairperson, Committee on Professional Concerns, AAPT, January 1, 2002 - January 25, 2004
  • Chairperson, On-Line Homework Database Tools, 2002-03
  • Editor, Astronomy, Mathematics and Physics Section of the Virginia Academy of Sciences, 2001-02

Selected Recent Invited Talks

  • Video iPod Use in the Introductory Physics Classroom, AAPT Summer Meeting Greensboro, NC, July 30, 2007 [FullAbstract.cfm]
  • Teaching Technologies for the Introductory Physics Sequence, NCS-AAPT Meeting, UNC-Greensboro, March 3, 2007
  • Demonstration Workshop, NCS-AAPT Meeting, UNC-Greensboro, March 2, 2007
  • Demonstration Show, UNC-Pembroke, NC, February 24, 2007
  • The Impact of Teaching Technologies in the Introductory Physics Classroom, AAPT Winter Meeting, Seattle, WA, January 9, 2007
  • Elegant and Inexpensive Demonstrations, Fall meeting of the Southern Atlantic Coast Section of AAPT, Charleston, SC, October 21, 2006 [pdf]
  • Elegant and inexpensive Demonstrations Workshop, NC Section of AAPT Fall meeting, Elon University, Elon NC, September 29, 2006 [htm]
  • Science Fair Physics Demonstrations, UNC Pembroke, Pembroke, NC, February 18, 2006 [htm]
  • Unusual Physics Demonstrations, NCS-AAPT Meeting, Pembroke University, October 29, 2005
  • Phabulous Physics Phenomena in Forty Minutes, NCS-AAPT Meeting, Duke University, March 11, 2005
  • Polling in the Classroom: Review of the Past Four Years, AAPT Winter Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, January 10, 2005
  • Personal Response System (Poster), A&SIST Forum, Bryan Center, Duke Univ., December 07, 2004 [postersession1.html#prs]
  • Demonstrations for Advanced Physics Classes, SESAPS 2004 Meeting in Oak Ridge, TN, November 13, 2004 [html]
  • AAPT Summer Meeting, Boise, Idaho, 1 August 2001

Publications (listed separately)

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