Warren M. Young

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY
YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY
 2005 - Retired
 2004-05   Professor
 1979-2004  Professor and Chair
 1972-79   Associate Professor
 1965-72   Assistant Professor
 1962-65   Instructor
 1967 - 2005  Director, Ward Beecher Planetarium

OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE
 1979  Presented a 5-minute weekly radio program on astronomy on WYSU
 1967  Presented a series of half-hour television programs for sixth grade students which aired on WKBN-Channel 27 for use in Youngstown area schools; both this and the Kennedy school work were done in connection with the opening of the Planetarium in the spring of 1967
 1966-67 Part-time science teacher, Kennedy School for the Gifted (private elementary school)
 1960  Astronomer, Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C.

CONSULTING
 Clarion University, Clarion, Pa. - Conducted review of Physics Program, 1997
 Lordstown Local School District, Lordstown, Ohio - Consulted on astronomy   curriculum in the elementary grades
 Member of the North Central Accrediting Agency accrediting team for   Boardman High School in 1985 and Howland High School in 1987
Member, textbook selection committee, Joseph Badger Middle School

PUBLICATIONS
 History of Astronomy
"Columbus' Use of Astronomy," Planetarian, 26, p. 11, 1997.
 Young, Warren and Pirko, Richard, "A Student Exercise in Measuring Latitude and Longitude," Planetarian, 26, p. 13, 1997.
"Measuring Longitude, Columbus Style," Sky and Telescope, 92, p. 70, September 1996. Article was used as the basis for a feature in the Christian Science Monitor on activities for the September 1996 lunar eclipse.
 "Columbus Was No Astronomer," StarDate, University of Texas at Austin, September/October 1992.  This article, in a condensed form, also was distributed by the Associated Press for Columbus Day (Oct. 12, 1992)
 "Star Maps and Catalogs," Owen Gingerich and Warren Young, Encyclopedia Brittannica, 1987 and following years.

Astronomical Research
 "Cometary Collisions and the Dark Material on Iapetus," Ronald Tabak and Warren Young, Earth, Moon and Planets 44: 251-264, 1989.  This research was summarized in two large-circulation magazines for amateur astronomers, Astronomy, November 1989 and Sky and Telescope, February 1990.
 Peter D. Wilson and Carl Sagan wrote a 2-page critique of our Iapetus theory in their review paper "Spectrometry and Organic Matter on Iapetus," Icarus, 122, p. 92, 1966.

PRESENTATIONS
(With abstracts published in the proceedings of the meeting):
 "Columbus Was No Astronomer," Mid-Atlantic Planetarium Society, April 1992
 "Columbus Was No Astronomer II," Great Lakes Planetarium Association, October   1992
 "Using Lunar Eclipses to Measure Longitude," Great Lakes Planetarium Association,  October 1993 (with Richard Pirko)
 "Serpents of the Sun," Great Lakes Planetarium Association, October 1993

(With abstracts published in Bulletin of the American Journal of Physics):
 "The Dark Side of Iapetus," Ohio Section/American Physical Society, 1988 (with  Ronald Tabak)
 "The Dark Side of Iapetus II," Ohio Section/American Physical Society, 1989 (with  Ronald Tabak)

 "Dark Ray Craters on Ganymede," Ohio Section/American Physical Society, 1991  (with Ronald Tabak)
 "Columbus Was No Astronomer," Ohio Section/American Physical Society, 1993

Other Presentations:
 Quest presentations at Youngstown State University
  "Using Lunar Eclipses to Measure Longitude," 1993
  "Serpents of the Sun," 1994
 Sigma Xi Research Day, YSU
  "Columbus and Navigation"
 Faculty Forum, YSU
  "Columbus: Hero or Rogue," organized faculty form for 500th anniversary of Columbus' voyage to the New World; also was one of the presenters
 American Association of Physics Teachers
  "Halley's Comet," invited paper for AAPT meeting at Cleveland State University, 1986
 Ohio Academy of Science
  "Columbus Was No Astronomer," Ohio Academy of Science meeting at Youngstown State University, 1992

Presentations to amateur astronomers:
 "The Astronomy of the Maya Indians," statewide meeting at Oberlin College, 1994
 "The Astro Mission," stateway meeting  at Mahoning Valley Observatory, 1991
 "The Astronomy of the Maya Indians," Stark County Astronomical Society, 1990
 "The Astronomy of the Maya Indians," statewide meeting at Mahoning Valley Observatory, 1990
 

SOCIETIES, TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Memberships:
 American Astronomical Society
 International Planetarium Society
 Great Lakes Planetarium Association, Fellow

Meeting host:
 Local host, Great Lakes Planetarium Association meetings, 1972 and 1991

Paper session chair:
 Astrophysics paper sessions for Ohio Section/American Physical Society, 1987 and 1995

HONORS, AWARDS, PATENTS
 Youngstown State University, Leadership Award, 1997
 Youngstown State University, Distinguished Professor Award, 1978, 1997
  Youngstown State University, Watson Merit Award, 1983
 Inventor (no patent), Planetarium Radio Sky Projector, 1973

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