James Andrews
Professor of Physics
and Astronomy
Youngstown State University
Adjunct Professor of Physics
Case Western Reserve University
E-mail: jandrews -at - ysu.edu or andrewsjames -at- gmail.com
Dr. Andrews joined the physics faculty at
YSU in 1996, having arrived along a less
traditional route than most of his colleagues. Dr. Andrews graduated
from Bucknell
University in 1979 with a BA in philosophy and subsequently attended
law school at
the University of Virginia. After practicing law for years in
Cleveland,
Ohio, he decided to pursue his long held desire to study and teach
science.
He received his PhD from CWRU in 1995. At Case, he was the first
graduate student in the nonlinear optics laboratory initiated by his
thesis advisor, Dr. Ken Singer, and held a Graduate Researcher
Fellowship from NASA.
Prior to coming to Youngstown, Dr. Andrews worked at the NASA Lewis
Research Center (now known as the Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field)
as a Senior Research Associate of the Ohio Aerospace Institute and was
a lecturer in the Physics
Department of Case Western Reserve University, where he helped implement
active learning strategies by using cooperative groups, context-rich problems,
and computer-assisted virtual laboratories in courses for engineering and
life science majors and in the honors introductory physics sequence, work
he continues in his present capacity at YSU.
Dr. Andrews has also
been actively involved with teacher in-service education programs at
YSU, leading workshops through Project Discovery, Project Sustain, the
Rural Initiative of the Physics Teachers as Resource Agents program of
the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), and the Ohio
Partnership for the Far East Region Science Teachers (OPFERST). Dr. Andrews co-authored the Student Workbook for the textbook College Physics by Knight, Jones, and Field.
Dr. Andrews has over
30 published research papers involving a variety of studies of the
application of organic materials to nonlinear optics, including
nonlinear spectroscopy of third-order nonlinear molecules, self-induced
diffraction in polymer waveguides, cascaded nonlinear optics and local
field effects and development of multilayer roll-processable polymer
laser.
Dr. Andrews coordinates YSU's Affiliation
with the Center for Layered Polymeric Systems (CLiPS), a Science
& Technology Center funded by the National Science
Foundation. Dr. Andrews is also Adjunct Professor of Physics at Case
Western Reserve University (CWRU) and collaborates with researchers at
CWRU on studies of structured optical polymer materials as part of
CLiPS.
Dr. Andrews serves as a member of the
State of Ohio's Educator Standards Board, the Union of Concerned
Scientists National Advisory Board, and the WYSU Community Advisory
Board. He is Past President of the Ohio Section of the American
Association of Physics Teachers and a member of the American Physical
Society (APS), the Optical Society of America (OSA), American Society
for Engineering Education (ASEE), and the AAPT. He is also a
licensed attorney in Ohio since 1982.
Dr. Andrews also plays bass with the neo-Celtic band, Brady's Leap, a group of five musicians, four of whom also teach at YSU.
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