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Kazuo Ota Cottrell

 

Present Situation:

 

Physics and Chemistry teacher at Lake Region Union High School in Orleans,

Vermont.

 

Education:

 

            B.S.                 (Physics) University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, 1984.

            M.S.                (Biophysics) University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 1987.

            M.S.Ed.           (Secondary Science, Physics) State University of New York

                                    College at Brockport, Brockport, New York, 1992.

 

Computer Skills:

 

Familiar with Apple, PC (Microsoft), and Linux operating platforms and application software. Also familiar with basic hardware installation for these systems.

 

Experience:

 

            Teaching:

 

2007 spring – present       Adjunct faculty in Physics at Lyndon State College in

Lyndonville, VT.

 

            2004 fall – present           Physics and Chemistry teacher at Lake Region Union High

School in Orleans, Vermont.

 

            2004 spring                    Faculty in math and science at the Chelsea Public School in

Chelsea, Vermont.

           

            2003 fall – 2004 spring         Substitute teacher for science, Sutton Town School, in

Sutton, Vermont

           

            2003 fall                                     Adjunct Faculty in mathematics at the Littleton Branch

                                                of New Hampshire Community Technical College.

           

            2002 summer – fall 2003    Faculty in math and physics at the Caledonia School in

                                                St. Johnsbury, Vermont.

 

            2000 fall – 2002 summer      Faculty in math and science at the King George School in

                                                Sutton, Vermont.

           

            1999 summer                            Adjunct Faculty in Physics at Community College of

Vermont, in Burlington, Vermont.

 

            1997 fall – 1998 fall               Teaching Assistant at the University of Vermont.

 

            1996 fall – 1997 spring      Faculty in the Physics Department of Norwich

                                    University, Northfield, VT (as a sabbatical leave

replacement.)

 

            1996 spring/summer              Assistant Professor of Physics in the Department of Natural

                                                Sciences at Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT (as a

                                                sabbatical leave replacement).

 

            1995 fall                                     Teacher of Physics and General Science at Adirondack

                                                Central High School, Boonville, NY.

 

            1992 fall – 1993 spring         Teacher of Physics and Chemistry, Wilson Magnet High

                                                School, Rochester, NY.

 

            1991 fall                                     Student teacher in the Bioscience Magnet at Franklin H.S.,

                                                Rochester, NY, with duties including the formal teaching of

                                                Medical Biology, General Biology, Botany and Physics,

                                                and informal tutoring in Chemistry and Mathematics.

 

            1989 fall – 1990 spring         Volunteer math tutor in the resource room at Marshall H.S.,

                                                Rochester, NY, for Educational Task Force.

 

1985 fall – 1990 spring         Participated in Urban League of Rochester tutorial

                                                program: involved helping high school students to learn

                                                Physics.

 

            1984 spring                               Laboratory Assistant, Physics 202L, University of Dayton.

 

            1983 fall                                     Laboratory Assistant, Physics 201L, University of Dayton.

 

            1983 spring                               Laboratory Assistant, Physics 202L, University of Dayton.

 

            1982 fall                                     Laboratory Assistant, Physics 201L, University of Dayton.

 

            Other Academic:

            2003 fall – 2004 spring         Assistant reference librarian, Lyndon State College

 

Social Services:

            1999 spring – 2000 fall         Awake overnight residential support clinician, Howard

                                                Center for Human Services, Burlington, VT.

 

Research:

            Completed in August 1992, a final project in partial fulfillment of the

            requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Education, entitled,

            “Cognitive Development and the Growth of Conceptual Understanding in

            Physics.”

 

            During Spring 1992, Summer and Spring 1991, worked at SUNY Brockport

            with Dr. David Hall to implement a laboratory which will allow study of

            the magneto-optic properties of glasses at low temperature.

 

From 1987 – 1989, participated in research in partial fulfillment of the Degree of

            Master of Science in Biophysics, which examined the role of electronic energy

            transfer in the process of damage formation in UV irradiated DNA. This work

            employed extensive computer modeling and the application of biochemical

            techniques to study a problem of both physical and biological significance. It

            was done under the direction of Thomas M. Nordlund, Ph.D., at the University

            of Rochester.

 

            Completed an undergraduate honors thesis entitled, “The application of Raman

            Spectroscopy to the Study of a-Al₂O₃,” under the direction of Perry P. Yaney,

Ph.D., at the University of Dayton.

 

            Honors and Awards:

 

 

1993 fall – 1995 spring                     Underrepresented Minority Fellowship, SUNY

                                                            Buffalo.

 

            1991 fall – 1992 spring                           Selected to participate in the Ronald E. McNair

                                                            Program, SUNY Brockport.

 

            1991 spring – 1992 summer                  Underrepresented Minority Fellowship, SUNY

                                                            Brockport

 

            1983 spring                                                 Sigma Pi Sigma Membership (Physics honor

                                                            society).

 

            1980 fall – 1984 spring                           University Honors Program

 

            1980 fall – 1984 spring                           University of Dayton President’s Scholarship

 

            1980 fall – 1984 spring                           Ohio Academic Scholarship

 

 

 

 

Publications:

 

Kazuo Ota Cottrell, A reexamination of the role of rest mass in special relativity. Spacetime & Substance, Vol.5, No. 4 (24), pp. 163-171, 2004.

 

Kazuo Ota Cottrell, A study of kinetic energy to clarify the role of g in the transformation of variables representing physical quantities. Spacetime & Substance, Vol. 5, No. 4 (24), pp. 154-161, 2004.

 

Kazuo Ota Cottrell, A reexamination of spacetiime transformations from the viewpoint of matter waves. Spacetime & Substance, Vol. 5, No. 3 (23), pp. 104-112, 2004.

 

Xiao-Yuan Liu, Kazuo Ota Cottrell and Thomas M. Nordlund,

Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Quenching of Tyrosine in Lima Bean Trypsin/Chymotrypsin Inhibitor and Model Peptides. Photochem. Photobiol. 50, pp. 721-731, 1989.

 

 

Contributed Papers:

 

1.                     M. G. Woodard, C. R. Boehly, T. Bekele, K.O. Cottrell and D.B Hall, SUNY at Brockport, Brockport, NY, An Optical Probe for Magnetic Phenomenon.

 

                        18^th Annual Fall Scientific Paper Session of the Rochester Academy of

                        Sciences, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, November 2,

                        1991.

 

2.                     C.R. Boehly, T. Bekele, K.O. Cottrell, M.G. Woodard and D.B. Hall, SUNY at Brockport, Brockport, NY, Automated Measurement of Magneto-Optic Effects.

 

                        18^th Annual Fall Scientific Paper Session of the Rochester Academy of

                        Sciences, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, November 2,

                        1991.

 

3.                     Fayek M. Huzair, Kazuo O. Cottrell and David B. Hall,

Department of Physics, SUNY College at Brockport, Brockport, NY, A System for Measuring Magneto-optic Properties of

Glasses.

 

                        11^th Annual Rochester Symposium for Physics Students, University of

                        Rochester, Rochester, NY, April 20, 1991.

 

 

4.                     Xiao-Yuan Liu, Kazuo Ota Cottrell and Thomas M. Nordlund,

Fluorescence Quenching and Anisotropy Decay of Tyrosine

in Lima Bean Trypsin Inhibitor

 

                        Paper AM12, APS meeting, New York, NY, March 16, 1987.

 

 

 

 

Conferences:

 

Participated as a respondent to the panel on Education and Communication: Universities, as part of the Convocation on Scientific Conduct, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., June 6-7, 1994.