Recent activities of Associate Professor T. Gregory Stacy

1. Recent activities of Associate Professor T. Gregory Stacy Stacy came to LSU in Fall 1997 as an Assistant Professor – Joint Faculty Appointment Program with Southern University Promoted to Assoc. Prof. in 2002 (at SUBR) and 2003 (at LSU) Promoted to Full Professor (at SUBR) in 2009 Research Co-I on two recent observing proposals (with collaborators at UMass and INAOE, Mexico) to the Large Millimeter Radio Telescope (LMT) to investigative the correlative properties of gamma-ray emitting AGN. Also investigating the feasibility of implementing a target-of-opportunity program to use the LMT to observe the prompt millimeter-wave emission from GRBs (on time-scales from seconds to minutes after the burst triggers recorded by the GBM on Fermi). At LSU, involved with the next-generation (TETRA-II) experimental efforts to study the properties of Terrestrial Gamma Flashes (TGFs) associated with lightning in the Earth’s atmosphere.

2. Recent grant/proposal activity Correlative Radio Observations of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Sources …. (Stacy, PI, with collaborators at UMass-Amherst), NSF PAARE Program/AST-0750931, $478,454,1/2008-1/2012 Correlative Radio and Gamma-ray Measurements of Selected High-energy Sources (Stacy, PI) Board of Regents/NASA-EPSCOR, $34,013, 1/2012/-5/2013. Terrestrial Gamma Flashes at Ground Level -- Search for Gamma Rays Produced by Lightning (Stacy, Co-PI with M.L. Cherry et al.), Louisiana Board of Regents Support Fund, $160,347, 07/01/2014-06/30/2016 Submitted and/or pending in 2014 Enhancement of Undergraduate Education in Astronomy and Earth Science at Southern University: A Multi-Use Planetarium Facility (Stacy, PI, Southern) $140K, Louisiana Board of Regents Support Fund (declined). Ground Level Measurements of Terrestrial Gamma Flashes (Stacy, Co-I with M.L. Cherry et al.), NSF, $333,210, proposed start: 2/2015 (pending).

3. Teaching LSU (spring semesters) PHYS 2001/2002 PHYS 2995/4995 (Undergraduate seminar, spring and fall semesters) PHYS 4135 (Modern Optics) SU (fall semesters) PHYS 221 (calculus-based intro physics for science and engineering majors) PHYS 271 (Modern Physics) PHYS 206/207 (Introduction to Astronomy, with observing lab)

4. Service LSU committee and service activities - Co-advisor for undergraduate majors (with D. Young) - Advisor to the Society of Physics Students (SPS) chapter - Transfer credit evaluation (with D. Browne) - Program assessment committee, member - Undergraduate curriculum committee, member - Occasional internal reviewer of applicants to the department’s NSF-sponsored summer REU program Southern service activities - Has recently assumed the duties of Southern University’s Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) - Internal reviewer, SU Office of Sponsored Programs, for the annual Board of Regents Support Fund programs. Natonal - Reviewer, NASA Post-doctoral Fellowship Program (2012-2014) Local/Outreach  - BREC/LSU/BRAS Highland Road Park Observatory (HRPO) – Regular telescope operator and occasional speaker on public observing nights (~once/month).

5. LSU and Southern students Recent LSU undergraduate students Senior research project advisor: J. Champagne (now at U. Arizona, applied optics) C. Dupuis (now at Texas A&M, climate and environmental science) Currently advising C. Hawkins (Dec 2014 graduation) Advisor for two summer REU students at LSU R. Alexander (from Southern, physics, now at Harvard in AMO) A. Bostrom (from Maryland, astronomy, now a senior) (Also, advisor to 2-3 Southern undergraduate students per year in astronomy- and astrophysics-related topics) Graduate student advisor/committee member At LSU: R. Ringuette (committee member, PhD, 2014) At SU: C. Guo (committee member, MS, 2013) D. Hart (advisor, MS, 2015, now in a one-year graduate student NASA Pathways research internship at NASA’s Langley Research Center in atmospheric physics)