Mark Lucas

Mark Lucas is a nuclear experimentalist who now focuses on teaching, the use of technology in education, and science outreach to the Southeast Ohio area. He comes to Ohio University by way of Purdue University (a Boilermaker through and through) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he spent his time shedding "light" on the deuteron through Nuclear Compton Scattering. After four years at the Brookhaven National Lab on Long Island, he returned to his home state of Ohio.

Mark splits his time between the Ohio Honors Program, where he is an instructor, and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, where he teaches and coordinates the Algebra-based Introductory Physics sequence and administers the LON-CAPA open-source course management system.

With a strong interest in reaching out to the community, he coordinates local physics open houses, helps run the District 12 Science Fair, and is on the board of the local Ohio Valley Museum of Discovery.

When not buried in his office or in lectures, he might be found teaching his two sons how to program computer games, playing with LEGOS, playing the recorder, remodeling his basement, or singing with the church choir.

Lucas received the 2003 Arts & Sciences Group II Outstanding Faculty Award.