I was born in Boston Mass. (1955), but raised in central NJ when there were more farms than housing developments in the area.   My family attended a small American Baptist church.

I received my Bachelors in Applied and Engineering Physics (1976), a Masters in Applied Physics (1978) and a PhD in Applied Physics (1980) from Cornell University.   While at Cornell I was a member of the Eco-Justice task force which brought ecology, economics and justice into dialog.  It was the Eco-justice task force which started me on this journey.

Upon leaving Cornell I did post-graduate work at Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) where I later became a member of the research staff.  I left PPPL and worked in the electronics industry where I rose to the level of acting drector of engineering and became interested in the unintended interaction between radio waves and electrical apparatus.  While in industry I obtained an MBA from the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science (now Philadelphia University).

In 1995 I returned to academia and climbed up the academic ranks until I became a tenured full professor in the physics department at East Stroudsburg University. In 2010 I started attending Union Theological Seminary in NY part-time, while continuing my duties as a professor at ESU.  I finished my master’s thesis for an MA in Systematic theology and graduated in the spring of 2015.

I retired from East Stroudsburg University in June of 2015.  I am working on a Biblical theology of creation care that takes seriously science, economics, theology and spirituality.  It is my hope to return someday to academia to continue the dialog between science, economics and religion concentration on issues of creation care.