Vita        

Jack M. Wilson, Ph.D.
President of The University of Massachusetts system
225 Franklin St 12th Floor
Boston, MA, 02110
email: jwilson  address: umassp.edu
phone: 617.287.7050

 www.JackMWilson.com

Formerly

Vice President for Academic Affairs of The University of Massachusetts system
CEO, UMassOnline,   The  University of Massachusetts  Online University

J. Erik Jonsson '22 Distinguished Professor of Physics, Engineering Science, Information Technology, and Management
Co-Director of The Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Founder, President, & Chairman, LearnLinc Corp. (formerly ILINC) now Mentergy.
Chief Scientist: Mentergy Corporation

(NSF Style Short Vita)

Personal

Listed in: Who's Who in America, Am. Men of Science, and others.
Fellow of the American Physical Society

Experience

Education

Ph.D. Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, Ph.D. (1972), M.A.(1970), 1968-72
A.B. Thiel College, Greenville, Pennsylvania, A.B. (1967), 1963-1967

Board Memberships

Recent Awards

Funded Research And Special Projects:

Service To National, And International Organizations:

Books

Invited Lectures (National and International):

Publications:

Meetings, Briefings Or Testimony To Government Offices (prior to coming to UMass):

Television Lectures:

Invited Lectures and Colloquia:

"Issues of Technology in Higher Education," Hudson Mohawk Association of Colleges and Universities, Albany, NY, 8/20/97.
"Re-Engineering the Undergraduate Curriculum: Computing and Multimedia Enable New Learning Environments," University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 4/28/97.
"The CUPLE Physics Studio: An Alternative to Large Lectures," Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 4/3/97.
"The CUPLE Physics Studio: An Alternative to Large Lectures," Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, 3/5/97.
"Studio Physics," Colorado School of Mines, Denver, CO, 1/14/97.
"Experiential Learning and Multimedia: Students Learn More by Doing Than by Listening," Washington College, Washington, DC, 9/18/96.
"How Computing in Physics Has Enabled the CUPLE Physics Studio," University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 4/16/96.
"Re-Engineering the Undergraduate Curriculum: New Learning Environments for Large Enrollment Introductory Courses," Penn State, University Park, PA, 4/4/96.
"Re-Engineering the Undergraduate Curriculum: Computing and Multimedia Enable New Learning Environments," Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH, 3/19/96.
"Beginning Multimedia," workshop and "Teaching with Multimedia," University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, 12/6/95.
"Re-engineering the Undergraduate Curriculum: The Studio Course Model," Kansas State University, 10/16/95.
"The CUPLE Physics Studio," Talk and Workshop, Virginia Commonwealth University, 8/22-23/95.
"Re-engineering the Large Enrollment Introductory Courses," Cal Poly, 6/2/95.
"CUPLE Physics Studio: An Alternative to Large Lectures," joint APS/AAPT Meeting, Washington, DC, 4/18-21/95.
"Re-engineering the Undergraduate Curriculum: Computing and Multimedia Enable New Learning Environments," California Chancellor's Conference, Sacramento, CA, 4/6/95.
"Re-Engineering The Undergraduate Curriculum: Computing and Multimedia Enable New Learning Environments," AUPC Conference, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, 2/5/95.
"Re-Engineering The Undergraduate Curriculum: Computing and Multimedia Enable New Learning Environments," McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2/2/95.
"The CUPLE Physics Studio," US Air Force Academy, Colorado, 12/8/94.
"The CUPLE Physics Studio: Replacing the Large Enrollment Introductory Course," University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 12/2/94.
"The CUPLE Physics Studio: Replacing the Large Enrollment Introductory Course," Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 10/20/94.
"The CUPLE Physics Studio," North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 9/29/94.
"Re-engineering the Large Enrollment Introductory Courses," Bureau of Engineering Teaching Seminar, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 5/17/94.
"The CUPLE Physics Studio: Re-engineering the Large Enrollment Introductory Physics Course at the Universities," Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), 5/4/94.
"CUPLE," Creating the Virtual SUNY Campus - A SUNY FACT COCID Conference, SUNY, Albany, NY, 3/5/94.
"Interactive Learning at Rensselaer" Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA, 3/1/94.
"The CUPLE Physics Studio" University of Guelph, Canada, 2/1/94.
ThinkPad University Planning Session, IBM, Somers, NY 1/11/94.
"The Physics Studio - Applying CUPLE in a Studio Environment," Colloquium, Virginia Tech, 12/2/93.
"Integrating Advanced Function Computing and Multimedia into Undergraduate Science and Engineering Courses," College of Engineering Colloquium, Cornell University, Cornell, NY 11/10/93.
"CUPLE: Integrating Computing and Multimedia into Physics Instruction," A hands-on workshop for physics teachers, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 11/6/93.
"CUPLE: The Comprehensive Unified Physics Learning Environment," Colloquium, United States Airforce Academy, Colorado Springs Colorado, 16 June 1993.
"Integrating Video Simulation and Other Sophisticated Computer Tools into Undergraduate Physics Courses," Presentation to The Summer Workshop, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, 11 June 1993.
"CUPLE: The Comprehensive Unified Physics Learning Environment," A Colloquium, Purdue University-Calumet, Hammond, IN, 27 April 1993.
"CUPLE: The Comprehensive Unified Physics Learning Environment," A Seminar, Center for the Development of Educational Computing and the Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 9 April 1993.
"CUPLE: The Comprehensive Unified Physics Learning Environment," Allegheny Community College, West Mifflin, PA, 8 April 1993.
"Multimedia in Undergraduate Science Education," A Colloquium, United State Military Academy, West Point, NY, 10 Dec 1992.
"Computer Based Video in the Sciences," Bard College, Annedale-on-Hudson, 5 Nov 1992.
"Videodiscs and Computers in Undergraduate Science," Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 4 Nov 1992.
"Computing, Communications, and Computer Based Video," AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, 30 June 1992.
"Multimedia in Engineering Education," College of Engineering Colloquium, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA, 15 June 1992.
"CUPLE: Putting it All Together," Computing in the Introductory Physics Course, Dickinson College, 18 June 1992.
"Repurposing Existing Videodiscs for Instruction in the Sciences," Academic Computing Conference, San Diego California, 11 June 1992.
"Teaching Science in the 90's: An Overview," Workshop on Science Instruction, Trinity College, 26 May, 1992.
"A Comprehensive Hypermedia Learning Environment for Physics," Mt. Holyoke College, 27 March,1992.
"Multimedia in an Introductory Physics Course," Colloquium, New Lab for Teaching and Learning, Columbia University, Teacher's College, 10 Dec., 1991.
"CUPLE: An Illustration of Scientific Multimedia," Conference on Technology in Science, City University of New York, 9 December, 1991.
"Computing in Undergraduate Physics Courses," Colloquium, Dept. of Physics, North Carolina State University, 18 Nov. , 1991.
"Integrating Sophisticated Computing into Undergraduate Education," Colloquium, College of Engineering, The University of Cincinnati, 13 Nov. , 1991.
"Developing a Comprehensive Unified Physics Learning Environment," Colloquium, Dept. of Physics, The University of Cincinnati, 13 Nov. , 1991.
"Instructional Technology, Why and How?" Campus wide Colloquium, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, 22 August 1991.
"Computer Interfacing," NY State Science Supervisor's Conference on leadership in Science Education, Russell Sage College, Troy, NY, 20 August 1991.
"CUPLE," Campuswide Colloquium, Boston College, 9 May 1991.
"The Role of Computing in Physics Instruction," Sigma Pi Sigma Lecture, Dept. of Physics, Siena College, 25 April 1991.
"Computing in Undergraduate Physics," Colloquium, Dept. of Physics, The University of Michigan, 18 April 1991.
"The Comprehensive Unified Physics Learning Environment," Union College, 11 January 1991.
"Computer Tools for Building Physics Educational Software," The Computers in Upper Level Physics Meeting, George Mason University, 12 January 1991.
"The Comprehensive Unified Physics Learning Environment," (with E.F. Redish), IBM Corporate Executive Briefing, Thornewood, NY, 19 December 1990.
"The Comprehensive Unified Physics Learning Environment," City University of New York Administrator's Conference, New York, NY, 9 November 1990.
"Issues in Physics Education," Physics Colloquium, Harvard University, Boston, MA, 1 October 1990.
"National and International Programs and Trends in Physics Education," Hawaii Teachers of Chemistry and Physics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, August 1986.
"Energy Education and Physical Science-A Workshop," Texas AAPT, 13 November, 1982
"The Use of Computer Graphics for Experimental Simulation in Advanced Physics Laboratories," AAPT Announcer, 11, December 1981
"Graphic Experimental Simulation," Texas Academy of Science, Spring 1980
"Experimental Simulation in the Modern Physics Laboratory," Am. Assoc. of Physics Teachers Summer Meeting, Las Cruces, NM, June 21, 1979
"The Angular Dependence of the Mossbauer Spectrum of Sickle Cell Hemoglobin," Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., 24, 27 (1978)
"Physics in Criminal Investigation," Houston Metropolitan Science Teachers Association, September 16, 1978
"Mossbauer Spectroscopy of an Iron Carborane," Texas Academy of Science, March 21, 1975
"Mossbauer Spectroscopy of Sickle Cell Hemoglobin," Texas Academy of Science, March 21, 1975
"Physics with Application to Police Science," Texas AAPT, November 1, 1974, Texas Academy of Science, March 21, 1975, and APS-AAPT Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, February 1975
"Undergraduate Physics Education in Texas," Texas AAPT, November 1, 1974
"The Use of Liquid Crystals in Mossbauer Studies and the Use of Mossbauer Effect in Liquid Crystal Studies," 8th Mossbauer Symposium, New York (1973)
"A Mossbauer Study of a Sn-119 Bearing Solute in an Ordered Smectic Liquid Crystal Supercooled to 77 K, Fourth International Liquid Crystal Conference, Kent, Ohio, 1972
"A Mossbauer Effect Investigation of the Liquid Crystalline State," Master's Thesis at Kent State University (1970)
"Features of Mossbauer Spectroscopy of Fe-57 Containing Solutes in Liquid Crystals," Fourth International Liquid Crystal Conf., Kent, Ohio (1972)
"Mossbauer Spectral Asymmetry in Liquid Crystals," (with Uhrich), Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., 16, 333 (1971)
"Mossbauer Investigation of the Smectic Liquid Crystalline State," (with Uhrich and Resch), Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., 15, 127 (1970)



October 2005 by Jack Wilson