Bruce Duncan

Dog

Here's a 1989-1990 picture of my dog Angel, (born 1985, died September 29, 2001). Here is a little obituary.

Work

Geo/Physical Sciences Department
Fitchburg State College
Fitchburg MA 01420

Office: 302 Condike Science Bldg. Phone: (978)-665-3228
[EMAIL] bduncan2(at)fsc.edu

In 1990 I started graduate studies in the Physics Department of the University of Connecticut.  I hold degrees, not all in physics, from UConn, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Yale University and Wesleyan University.  In 2001 I finished my PhD in Phil Gould's lab, working on a variation of STIRAP (stimulated Raman adiabatic passage) in rubidium.  We use this technique to populate the 5D state of Rb, after which we examine things like collisional cross section, lifetime, ionization rate, etc.  Click here to see more information on professional matters.   I am now an assistant professor at Fitchburg State College, after a three year stint as a visitor at Union College.  Click here to get a pdf version of my dissertation (yeah, like you care!).

Read my father's story about his years as a WWII POW.

Stuff

I keep meaning to repair my bicycle and get a new helmet, but since my accident over three years ago I haven't ridden.   I sing in the church choir, but unfortunately I've ended other musical activities, like playing in the gamelan at Wesleyan or singing Sacred Harp.   Listening tastes include gamelan, Western classical music (currently I'm big on Renaissance choral works and twentieth century composers, especially Ives, Poulenc, Messiaen, Pärt and Tavener) and the Grateful Dead.   Athletics were ended when I wiped out my knee playing indoor soccer several years ago.

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Life

I go to school (teaching now) and to church, I've played sports (soccer, basketball and track on an organized level), I've played music, I worked as a programmer for nearly eight years and I spent a year in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, working at the 18th Street Neighborhood Center (1985-1986) in Wheeling, West Virginia. I had a wonderful dog and have some good friends; someday I hope to get a life.

This page was last updated on May 25, 2008.

Click here to go to the UConn Physics homepage or here to go the homepage for Phil Gould's lab.