Stan Jones

Professor (Emeritus), Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Alabama

OFFICE ADDRESS:

Gallalee Hall

Box 870324

Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0324

(205) 348-3785

stjones@bama.ua.edu

CURRICULUM VITAE

PRESENT POSITION: Professor (retired), Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Alabama

CURRENT INTERESTS: Studio Physics and student learning in introductory physics

PERSONAL: Married, 3 children, 3 grandchildren, 2 cats, 1 dog

OFFICE ADDRESS: Box 870324

Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487

(205) 348-3791

stjones@bama.ua.edu

EDUCATION

B.S., Physics, Stanford University, 1966

M.S., Physics, University of Illinois, 1968

Ph.D., Physics, University of Illinois, 1970 (Elementary Particle Theory)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Improving student learning in the introductory physics class.

Preparing more qualified high school physics teachers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor of Physics, The University of Alabama, 1970-1977

Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics, The University of Illinois, Summer, 1974

Participating Guest, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1977-78

Associate Professor of Physics, The University of Alabama, 1977-83

Visiting Assistant Professor, Calif. Polytechnic State University, 1980-81

Professor of Physics, University of Alabama, 1983-Present

Assistant Dean for Natural Sciences/Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama, 1989-1998

Acting Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Classics, University of Alabama, 1995-1998

Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, 1998 -2006

FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, ETC.:

NSF Predoctoral Trainee, University of Illinois, 1967-1970

Faculty Research Participation Program, Argonne National Lab, Summer, 1973

Phi Kappa Phi

University of Alabama Alumni Association Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award, 1995.

GRANTS DIRECTED

A. Research [Total pro-rated external funding about $140,000]

The Research Corporation, “A Study of Multiperipheral Models with Multiple Diffractive Scattering,” 1971, S. T. Jones and B. C. Harms, co-directors.

Research Grants Committee of The University of Alabama, Grant-in-aid for summer research in high energy physics, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1977.

National Science Foundation, research in high energy physics, 1977-79.

U. S. Department of Energy, research grant for theoretical calculations in high energy physics, 1984-1990, L. Clavelli, B. Harms and S. T. Jones, co-directors.

B. Teaching and Service [Total budget about $700,000]

National Science Foundation, Instructional Scientific Equipment Program, "Curriculum Improvement in Elementary Physics Laboratories," June 1972 - June 1974.

National Science Foundation, Instructional Scientific Equipment Program, "Computer Assisted Instructional Program for Elementary Physics," 1975 -77, B. C. Harms and S. T. Jones, co-directors.

University of Alabama Venture Fund, grant for implementing Computer Assisted Instruction Program, 1975-76, B. C. Harms and S. T. Jones, co-directors.

U. S. Department of Energy, "Teaching Energy Awareness to the Elementary Age Child,” 1982, S. T. Jones and B. Rountree, co-directors.

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Minority High School Student Research Apprentice Program, 1991-1997.

U.S. Dept. of Education, Research Experiences in Science, Math, and Engineering for Minority Undergraduate Students, 1992, S. T. Jones and V. Schrodt, co-directors, 1992.

NASA, “Hands-on, Minds-on Science in Elementary School,” 1993, S. T. Jones and J. Shearin, co-directors.

University of Alabama Instructional Technology Grant, 2000-2001, J.W. Harrell and Stan Jones, co-Directors.

U.S. Dept. of Education, Science Education Technology Initiative, $200,000, 2002-2003, J.W. Harrell and Stan Jones, co-Directors.

U.S. Dept. of Education, Science Education Technology Initiative II, $250,000, 2003-2005.

Alabama Commission on Higher Education, Physical Science in the 21^st Century: Improving Teacher Quality and Mastery of Content, $30,000, 2008-2009, co-PI.

Submitted to NSF (REESE program): Interaction of Science and Hispanic English Language Learner Education (ISELLE): Elementary Pre-service Education Programs in the Southeast and Teacher Classroom Performance, $1,000,000, co-PI.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Physical Society (previously Co-Editor, Newsletter, Forum on Education)

Alabama Academy of Science (Past President)

American Association of Physics Teachers (Section Representative and Past President, Alabama Section)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

A. Courses Taught

Introductory Level: Descriptive Physics for Non-Science Majors; Non-Calculus Physics; Calculus-based Physics; Modern Physics

Advanced: History of Physics; Nuclear Physics; Quantum Mechanics; Thermal Physics; Classical Mechanics

Graduate: Quantum Mechanics; Classical Mechanics; Field Theory

B. Nontraditional Courses

Interim, 1973-2009 (3-week term): Physics for Elementary Teachers/Descriptive Physics

C. Other Teaching Activities

Introductory Laboratory Supervisor, 1970-74; 1976-77; 1981-83.

Consultant for Physics to "Bioprep" Program 1983-88.- Improving science instruction in rural high schools in order to (ultimately) train more doctors for rural areas.

Editor, Weekly Web Update page for Conceptual Physics, McGraw-Hill Publishers, 2001-2005.

Supervisor, Studio Physics Project, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UA, 2002-2008

D. Graduate students directed: 2 MS, 1 Ph.D.

SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Advisor to Society of Physics Students (1972-1989)

Director of the Annual State-Wide High School Physics Contest (1977-89).

Visiting lecturer: numerous elementary and high school classes around the state.

Delegate to University of Alabama Graduate Council, 1986-1989.

Member of University of Alabama President's Commission on Teacher Education (1986-88)

Co-Editor, Newsletter of Forum on Education, American Physical Society (1994-2003)

Science Olympiad Event Captain, (1999 – 2007).

Member, Leadership Board, College of Arts and Sciences, (2002-5).

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

1. On the Veneziano Formulation of Pion-Nucleon Scattering, A. W. Hendry, S. T. Jones and H. W. Wyld, Jr., Nuclear Physics B15, 389 (1970).

2. Comment on Scale Invariance of Inelastic Electron-Proton Scattering in a Multiperipheral Model with Scalar Couplings, S. T. Jones and H. W. Wyld, Jr., Physical Review D2, 949 (1970).

3. Multi-Regge Model Analysis of p- p into p+ p- p- p at 5 GeV/c, S. T. Jones, Physical Review D2, 856 (1970).

4. Momentum Conservation in Two Dimensions: an Elementary Laboratory Experiment, S. T. Jones, The Physics Teacher, Vol. 9, 458 (1971).

5. Backward Scattering in the Reaction p- p into r^o p- p at 5 GeV/c, S. T. Jones and B. C. Harms, Physical Review D6, 2437 (1972).

6. Failure of a Self-Consistent Diffractive Multiperipheral Model in the Strong-Ordering Limit, S. T. Jones, The Physical Review D7, 197 (1973).

7. Energy Dependence of Resonance Widths, P. Coulter, B. Harms, and S. T. Jones, The Physical Review D8, 1383 (1973).

8. Digital Electronics in the Elementary Laboratory, S. T. Jones and C. Alexander, American Journal of Physics 41, 563 (1973).

9. Two-Component Chew-Pignotti Model and Possible Dual Interpretation, S. T. Jones, Physical Review D9, 667 (1974).

10. The Maximum Rapidity Gap Distribution, S. T. Jones and D. R. Snider, Physical Review D9, 242 (1974).

11. ABFST Model Description of the Reaction p+ p into 3p+2p-p and Related Processes, J. Dash, J. Huskins, and S. T. Jones, Phys. Rev. D9, 1404 (1974).

12. ABFST Model Description of the Reaction p+ p into 2p-2p+n, J. Dash and S. T. Jones, The Physical Review D9, 2539 (1974).

13. Resonance Spins and Regge Residues, J. Dash and S. T. Jones, Physics Letters, Volume 55B, 212 (1975).

14. Resonance Spins and the t-Dependence of Regge Residues in Multiperipheral Models, J. W. Dash and S. T. Jones, Physical Review Dll, 1817 (1975).

15. Baryon-antibaryon Final-State Interactions and Multiperipheral Threshold Effects, S. T. Jones, Physical Review D11, 692 (1975).

16. Diffractive Slopes of y p, f p, and pp Scattering, S. T. Jones, Phys. Rev. D13, 1496 (1976).

17. Rising Total Cross Sections and the Flavoring of the Pomeron, J. W. Dash and S. T. Jones, Nucl. Phys. B120, 345 (1977).

18. Flavor and Baryon Quantum Numbers and Their Nondiffractive Renormalization of the Pomeron, J. W. Dash, S. T. Jones, and E. K. Manesis, Physical Review D18, 303 (1978).

19. Thresholds and the Rising Pion Inclusive Cross Section, S. T. Jones, Physical Review D18, 726 (1978).

20. Flavoring and Cylinder Renormalizations of the Pomeron, S. T. Jones, Physical Review Dl9, 2792 (1979).

21. Two Component Duality and Flavoring in the P + f Model, J. W. Dash, S. T. Jones, and A. Martin, Physical Review D22, 765 (1980).

22. Flavor and Baryon Quantum Number Renormalizations in the P+f Model, J. W. Dash and S. T. Jones, Nuclear Physics B168, 45 (1980).

23. New Structure in the Energy Spectrum of Reggeon Quantum Mechanics with Quartic Couplings, B. C. Harms, S. T. Jones, and C.- I. Tan, Physics Letters B91, 291 (1980).

24. Complex Energy Spectra in Reggeon Quantum Mechanics with Quartic Interactions, S. T. Jones, B. C. Harms, and C.-I Tan, Nuclear Physics, B171, 392 (1980).

25. Complex Energy Spectra in Reggeon Quantum Mechanics with Cubic Plus Generalized Quartic Interactions, S. T. Jones, B. C. Harms and S. A. Denham, Nuclear Physics B188, 155 (1981).

26. A Method for Numerical Determination of Eigenvalues, S. A. Denham, B. C. Harms, S. T. Jones, Am. J. Phys. Vol. 50, 374 (1982).

27. The Reggeon Field Theory and Finite Scales at Collider Energies, J. W. Dash and S. T. Jones, Zeitschrift fur Physik C22, 49 (1984).

28. Inclusive y Hadroproduction from Quark Gluon Scattering, L. Clavelli, P. H. Cox, B. Harms and S. T. Jones, Phys. Rev. D31, 482 (1985).

29. QCD Corrections to the decay B into y X, P. H. Cox, S. Hovater, S. T. Jones, and L. Clavelli, Phys. Rev. D32, 1157 (1985).

30. y-Production Via 3-Gluon Fusion, L. Clavelli, P. H. Cox, B. Harms, and S. T. Jones, Phys. Rev. D32, 612 (1985).

31. Flavoring, RFT, and ln²s Physics at the SPS Collider, J. W. Dash and S. T. Jones, Physics Letters 157B, 229 (1985).

32. QCD Corrections to the Decay B into h X, P. H. Cox, S. Hovater and S. T. Jones, Phys. Rev. D33, 1503 (1986).

33. Elastic pp and p(bar)p scattering up to sqrt(s) = 546 GeV and the flavored perturbative reggeon field theory, J. W. Dash and S. T. Jones, Phys. Rev. D33, 1512 (1986).

34. Leading-logarithmic and alpha(s) corrections to the decay B into y X, S. T. Jones and P. H. Cox, Phys. Rev. D35, 1064 (1987).

35. Fixed-Angle Asymptotic Behavior of the Type I Superstring Amplitude, L. Clavelli, P. Coulter, S. T. Jones, and Z. -H. Lin, Phys. Rev. D35, 2462 (1987).

36. Five Point Function in the Covariant Formulation of the Type-I Superstring Theory, Z. -H. Lin, L. Clavelli and S. T. Jones, Nuclear Physics B294, 83 (1987).

37. Charm and the Rise of the pp Total Cross Section, S. T. Jones and J. W. Dash, Phys. Rev. D37, 1818 (1988).

38. Vector and Tensor Meson Production and the Pomeron/f Identity Hypothesis, S. T. Jones, Phys. Rev. D38, 782 (1988).

39. Five Particle One-Loop Closed String Amplitudes and Supersymmetry Relations, Z.-H Lin and S. T. Jones, Phys. Lett. B217, 71 (1989).

40. Finiteness of the Bosonic String in Less than 26 Dimensions, L. Clavelli and S. T. Jones, Phys. Lett. B39, 3795 (1989).

41. U(10580) into J/y X in a Color Hybrid Model, L. Carson, P.W. Coulter, and S. T. Jones, Phys. Rev. D45, 2397 (1992).

42. Conceptual Learning in a Studio Setting, C. E. Horton and S. T. Jones, to be submitted to Am. J. Phys. (2008).

43. Studio Physics: Engaging Students, Engaging Teachers, S. T. Jones, to be submitted to The Physics Teacher (2008).

ABSTRACTS

1. Baryon Exchange Contributions to Backward Scattering in the Process p- p into r^op-p at 5 GeV/c. S. T. Jones and B. C. Harms, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 17, 95 (1972).

2. Diffractive Scattering of the y Particles, S. T. Jones, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 21, 180 (1976).

3. Quark Flavor and Cylinder Renormalization Effects in Dual Topological Unitarization, S. T. Jones, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 24, 103 (1979).

4. A Simple Method for Solving the Schrodinger Equation, S. T. Jones, B. C. Harms, and S. Denham, Journal of The Alabama Academy of Science 53, 63 (1982).

5. A Simple Experiment on Two-Dimensional Collisions, S. T. Jones, Journal of The Alabama Academy of Science 53, 72 (1982).

6. One-loop Closed String 5-particle Fermion Amplitudes in the Covariant Formulation, Z.-H. Lin and S. T. Jones, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 33, 1075 (1988).

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