Physics
Department
(413)545-1908
Lederle
Graduate Towers
fax: (413)545-4884
University
of Massachusetts
mort@k12s.phast.umass.edu
Amherst,
MA 01003
B.S., Physics, City College of New York,
February,
1954
M.S.,
Physics, New York University, August, 1956.
Ph.D.,
Physics, Columbia University, May, 1961
Research
Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1961-63
Research
Associate and Lecturer, Yale University, 1963-65
Professor
of Physics, University of Massachusetts, 1971-; Associate Professor,
1967-71;
Assistant Professor, 1971-
Consultant,
Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1967-present
Director,
Physics Forum/SpaceMet BBS Network, 1986-1996; Director, UMassK12 Internet
Service For Educators, 1993-
Director,
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education (STEM)
Institute,
1994-
New
York State Regents Scholarship, 1950-54
NSF
Predoctoral Fellowship, 1956-1960
Science Educator of the Year, Massachusetts Association of Science Teachers, 1994
Chancellor’s
Medal, University of Massachusetts, 1998
Distinguished Academic Outreach award, University of Massachusetts, 1999
Pathfinder Award, Massachusetts Computer Using Educators, 2000
Janet Guernsey Award, New England Section, American Association of Physics Teachers, 2001
PHYSICS,
with J.W. Kane, John Wiley & Sons, 1978, 1983, 1988. GENERAL PHYSICS,
1985,
1991
Study
Guides, Lab Manual, Instructor’s Manuals, Test Banks for PHYSICS, GENERAL
PHYSICS
THE
SPACEMET BOOK, with Mary Alice Wilson. Five Colleges, Inc., 1992.
DOING
RESEARCH IN THE CLASSROOM, with Mary Alice Wilson. Five Colleges, Inc.,
1996.
"State
Dependent Mass Corrections to Hyperfine Structure in Hydrogenic Atoms".
Phys. Rev. 130, 211 (1963).
"a - a
Scattering and Pionic Form Factor" (with R. Hofstadter), Nuovo Cimento
38,
1954 (1965).
"Single-Triplet
Mixing Correction to the HFS of the He Atom". Phys. Rev. Letters 15,
545
(1965).
"Optical
Model Analysis of Pion Nucleus Scattering" (with E. Auerbach and D.
Fleming). Phys. Rev. 162, 1683
(1967).
"K-
Nucleus Interaction and Its Interpretation" (with J. Koch), Phys. Rev.
Letters 38, 1061 (1972).
"Non
Hermitean Hamiltonians, Decaying States, and Perturbation Theory"
(with J. Walker), Phys. Rev. C6, 114 (1972).
"Multiple
Scattering and Nucleon Recoil Effects in Pion Production by Nucleons on
Nuclei" (with K.H. Yang, B.R. Holstein, and D.A. Sparrow), Phys. Rev.
C14,
1083 (1976).
"(p,pN)
Puzzle Above the (3,3) Resonance", with R.R. Silbar, Phys. Rev. C24,
574
(1981)
"Baryon
Number Ambiguities in the Symmetrized Product Anzatz for the Skyrme
Model,"
with G. Kalbermann, Physics Letters 225B, 27 (1989).
"Lessons
from the SpaceMet Network,"
(with
Helen R. Sternheim), Teleteaching, G. Davies and B. Samways (ed),
North-Holland,
NY, pp. 845-854, 1993
"Integrating
Technology into the Science Classroom,” (with Jack Rhoton). Sourcebook For
Science Supervisors, 4th ed., pp. 93-103, 1993.
"Making
Telecommunications Work for Teachers and Students."
Rethinking the Roles of Technology in Education, University of Texas, Austin, pp.
704-706.
(1993)
.”The
Internet as a method of continuing education in nutrition.” (With N.L.
Cohen,
M.J. Laus, M.J., P. Beffa-Negrini, S.L. Volpe, H. Sternheim and T. Dun).
Topics
in Clinical Nutrition 12:21-26 1997.
"Nutrition education for teachers via the World Wide Web.” (With N.L. Cohen,
M.J. Laus,
M.J., P. Beffa-Negrini, C. Cluff, S.L. Volpe, and T. Dun). FASEB Journal
12(5):
A823 (1998).
“Outcomes
of Internet-based nutrition education of teachers”
(With N.L. Cohen, M.J. Laus, M.J., P. Beffa-Negrini, C. Cluff, H.
Sternheim, and T. Dun). FASEB Journal 13(5): A867 (1999). National
Science Foundation nuclear physics research grants, 1965-67, 67-69, 69-71,
71-73, 72-75, 75-77, 77-79, 79-83. Principal Investigator University
of Massachusetts, President's Office, 1986; Public Service Endowment Grants,
1987, 1993, 1995. Electronic bulletin boards, Internet services for
teachers,
netcourses Massachusetts
Corporation for Educational Telecommunications grants, 1986,1987. Physics
Forum
Bulletin Board. MassCUE
grant, 1988. Physics Forum Bulletin Board. NSF/Five
Colleges SpaceMet Project, 1989-92. Principal Investigator. Science teacher
enhancement project. University
of Massachusetts Teaching Improvement Grant, 1992-93. NSF
5C/5E Project, 1992-95. Principal Investigator. Middle school science
teacher
enhancement project. PALMS,
Doing Research in the Classroom, 1995. Summer workshops for teachers.
Principal
Investigator PALMS,
academic year grant for teacher training, co-PI, 1995-96, 1996-97 Multicultural
grant to Latin American Studies Program. 1995. Internet training for
Hispanic
teachers. Faculty participant PALMS,
Chem Connect, 1995. Summer workshops for teachers. Faculty Participant PALMS,
Chem Connect, 1996. Summer workshops for teachers. Faculty Participant Earth
Connection Project, funded by International Paper grant to UMass Extension.
Faculty participant. 1996- NASA
Mission to Planet Earth Project, 1997-2000. Teacher workshops. Principal
Investigator Eisenhower
Grant, The STEMED Project, 96-97, $36,000. Principal Investigator. NSF
STEMTEC Project, 1997-2002. $5,500,000 eight-college, seven-school district
project to improve the preparation of future science and math teachers.
Principal Investigator. Noyce
Foundation, Statewide College Workshop, 1999, $10,000. Principal
Investigator Selected
workshops offered or organized SpaceMet
science workshops for middle school teachers, 1989-1992 5C5E
science workshops for middle school teachers, 1992-1995 Internet
workshops for teachers, 1992-1996 Writing
web page workshops for teachers, K-12 students, 1996- NASA
Mission to Planet Earth Project, workshops for middle school teachers,
1998-2000 STEMTEC
workshops for college and school faculty, 1997-2002
Selected Grants