Francis C. Fekel
Tennessee State University
Center of Excellence in Information Systems
3500 John A. Merritt Blvd.
Box No. 9501
Nashville, TN 37203-3401
Phone: 615-277-1610
Fax: 615-277-1614
email: fekel@evans.tsuniv.edu
EDUCATION:
PhD, Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, 1979
M. A., Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, 1975
B. S., Astronomy, Case Western Reserve University, 1968
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Tennessee State University, Research Specialist, 1996-present
Tennessee State University, Visiting Astrophysicist 1994-1995
NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center, NRC Senior Research Associate 1992-1994
Vanderbilt University, Assistant Professor, 1983-1991
Individual NSF research grantee, 1981-1983
NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, NRC Research Associate, 1979-1981
SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS:
International Astronomical Union, Commissions 26, 30, 42
American Astronomical Society
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Spectroscopy of binary and multiple stars, chromospherically active stars, stellar distances, masses, and luminosities, rotational velocities, lithium abundances/ages of late-type stars, ultraviolet spectroscopy
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