PAUL W. ZITZEWITZ
Department of Natural Sciences
College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters
The University of Michigan-Dearborn
Dearborn, MI 48128
(313) 593-5277

Education

1964 B.A. Physics, Carleton College
1965 A.M. Physics, Harvard University
1970 Ph.D. Physics, Harvard University. Thesis director Norman F. Ramsey

1970-1972 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Western Ontario
1972-1973 Senior Research Physicist, Corning Glass Works
1973-1978 Assistant Professor, The University of Michigan-Dearborn
1978-1983 Associate Professor, The University of Michigan-Dearborn
1983- Professor, The University of Michigan-Dearborn
1979-1980 Visiting Professor, Bielefeld University, West Germany
1986-1987 Acting Chair, Department of Natural Sciences, The University of Michigan-Dearborn
1988-1993 Associate Dean, College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters, The University of Michigan-Dearborn
1992 Acting Dean, College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters, The University of Michigan-Dearborn
1999 - Chair, Department of Natural Sciences, The University of Michigan-Dearborn

1964 Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Pi Mu Epsilon
1964 Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Danforth Graduate Fellow
1979 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
1985 Distinguished Faculty Research Award, The University of Michigan-Dearborn

American Physical Society
Forum on Education, Chair 1998-1999
Committee on Education, member 1998-99
Sigma Xi
American Association of Physics Teachers
Michigan Section, American Association of Physics Teachers, President 1996-1997
Detroit Metropolitan Physics Teachers Association
National Science Teachers Association

1986-95 National Science Foundation, $269,000, Precision Positronium Measurements with Low-Energy Positrons, Principal investigator.
1993-95 Michigan Department of Education, $95,654, Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Alignment Project, University of Michigan-Dearborn Site Director.
1998-01 National Science Foundation, $528,000, Investigations of Lepton Interactions, Co-principal investigator with D.W. Gidley (PD), R.S. Conti, M.A Skalsey, and P. Buchsbaum.
1997-00 National Science Foundation, $36700, Introductory Laboratory Improvement, Project director.
1999-00 Michigan Department of Education, $53,000, InfusingTechnology

Jeffrey Scott Nico, 1985-1991
Richard Vallery, 1995-

1. A New Precision Measurement of the Orthopositronium Decay Rate Using the Vacuum Technique, Physical Review Letters, 65, 1344 (1990) (with J.S. Nico, D.W. Gidley, and A. Rich).

2. Measurement of the Decay Rate and 2-gBranching Ratio of Orthopositronium, Materials Science Forum, 105-110, 401 (1992) (with J.S. Nico, D.W. Gidley, and M. Skalsey).

3. Fast Positronium Formation and Dissociation on Surfaces, Journal of Applied Physics, 78, 1406 (1995) (with D.W. Gidley and D. M. McKinsey)

Physics: Principles & Problems, (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, Columbus, 1984, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1999).

2. "Teachers and Texts: Comments on the Problem of Improving K-12 Science Instruction," in Connections: Faculty Voices 1993, T.-L. Pebworth & C. Summers, Eds, University of Michigan-Dearborn (1993).

3. Science Interactions, Course 1, and Science Interactions, Course 1, Teachers' Wraparound Edition, (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, New York, 1993, 1995, 1998), 720, 836 pages (with B. Aldridge, R. Aiuto, J. Ballinger, A. Barefoot, L. Crow, R.M. Feather, Jr., A. Kaskel, C. Kramer, E. Ortleb, and S. Snyder).

4. Science Interactions, Course 2, and Science Interactions, Course 2, Teachers' Wraparound Edition, (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, New York, 1993, 1995, 1998), 752, 872 pages (with B. Aldridge, R. Aiuto, J. Ballinger, A. Barefoot, L. Crow, R.M. Feather, Jr., A. Kaskel, C. Kramer, E. Ortleb, and S. Snyder).

5. Science Interactions, Course 3, and Science Interactions, Course 3, Teachers' Wraparound Edition, (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, New York, 1993, 1995, 1998), 704, 822 pages (with B. Aldridge, R. Aiuto, J. Ballinger, A. Barefoot, L. Crow, R.M. Feather, Jr., A. Kaskel, C. Kramer, E. Ortleb, and S. Snyder).

6. Science Interactions, Course 4, and Science Interactions, Course 4, Teachers' Wraparound Edition, (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, New York, 1996, 1999) (with R. Avakian, D. Blaustein, W. McLaughlin, M. Thompson, K. Reel, and J. Wulff)

7. Reviews of: Experimentation:: An Introduction to Measurement Theory and Experiment Design by D.C. Baird and Experimental Methods: An Introduction to the Analysis and Presentation of Data by Les Kirkup, Physics Today, 48, 68, (May, 1995)

1. Tests of Quantum Electrodynamics and Related Symmetry Principles Using Positronium, in New Frontiers in Quantum Electrodynamics and Quantum Optics, A.O. Barat, Ed., NATO ASI, Istanbul (1990) (with R. Conti, D. Gidley, A. Rich, M. Skalsey, and J. Van House).

2. Measurement of the Decay Rate and 2g Branching Ratio of Orthopositronium, in Proceedings, Ninth International Conference on Positron Annihilation, Szombathely, Hungary, August, 1991 (with J.S. Nico, D.W. Gidley, and M. Skalsey), p 924.

April, 2000