Education

    High School:

• White Bear Lake, MN.  Graduated Spring 1995.

    Undergraduate Studies:

• University of Minnesota Duluth.  Fall 1995-Spring 1999.  Degrees earned: Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy.

• Arizona State University.  Fall 1999-Spring 2000.  Non-degree seeking student, part time.

    Graduate Studies:

• Syracuse University.  Fall 2000-Spring 2003.  PhD seeking student in Philosophy.  (Discontinued program  in order to pursue PhD in physics.)

• Syracuse University.  Fall 2003-present.  PhD seeking student in Physics.

Teaching

    Teaching Assistant Positions:

• Introduction to Modern Logic.  Fall 2000, Spring 2001.

• Ethics and Value Theory.  Fall 2001, Spring 2002.

• General Physics I (Mechanics).  Fall 2004, Spring 2006, Spring 2007.

• General Physics II (Electricity, Magnetism, and Light).  Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Fall 2007.    

    Courses Taught:

• Theories of Knowledge and Reality.  Fall 2002.

• General Physics II (Electricity, Magnetism, and Light).  Summer 2004.

• Inflationary cosmology

• Modified theories of gravity

• Topological defects in cosmology

• Baryogenesis

• Extra dimensions

• C. Armendariz-Picon, M. Trodden and E. J. West, ``Preheating in Derivatively-Coupled Inflation Models''  JCAP04 (2008) 036. <arXiv: 0707.2177 [hep-ph]>.