HISTORY
EDUCATION
EMPLOYMENT
- Professor and Chair, Department of Physics,
The College of New Jersey, 2010-
- Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Georgia State University, 1993-2010
- Member, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton, 2008-2009
- Adjunct Professor, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 2008-2010
- Visiting Professor, Department of Astrophysical
Sciences,
Princeton University, 2000-2001; Affliated Faculty, 2001-2008
- Astronomy Graduate Director,
Georgia State University, 1990-1991;
1994-1999
- Associate Professor, Georgia State University, 1989-1993
- Assistant Professor, Georgia State University, 1986-1989
- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of Pennsylvania, 1979-1986
- NSF/NATO Fellow, Institute of Astronomy, University of
Cambridge, 1977-1978
- Research Associate, Enrico Fermi Institute,
University of Chicago, 1976-1977; 1978-1979
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PERSONAL
- Born in The Bronx, New York in 1953; son of Paul E. and Martha K. Wiita
- One sister, Christine
- Married Brinda Umberkoman in 1978
- We have two sons:
Arun P. Wiita (born in 1980) received his Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Behavior in 2007 and his M.D. in 2009 from Columbia University and is currently a resident in
Laboratory Medicine at the
University of California, San Francisco.
He received his A.B. in Chemistry from Princeton University in 2002.
Arun married the lovely
Ann My Thai in May 2009.
- Neil M. Wiita (born in 1985) received his bachelor's degree in architecture
from Princeton University in 2007 and, after working for one of his ex-professors,
is currently enrolled in the Master of Architecture program at the
University of California, Berkeley.
- Favorite sport: Squash
- Favorite reading: The New Republic, The New Yorker
- Favorite music: The Lobster and the Tree
TRAVEL
Each slide show (.mov file) will launch automatically (or should do so)
but you can kill it at any time by clicking on the movie itself.
Enjoy!
A four minute slide show of our May 2008 trip to China
A two minute slide show of our May 2008 trip to Amsterdam and Haarlem
A three minute slide show of our May 2008 trip to Prague
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Last updated, 15 June 2010