Rob Fardon is the Science Coordinator and a professor of physics for NYSCAS. His shared mission, with our chairs and faculty, is to give our students a solid foundation in science. A good foundation lets you build on it forever. The most popular career goals of our students are in the health sciences, pharmacy, and medicine, so preparation for these is the focus of our program.

His specialty is in boosting the effectiveness of our classes through a cycle of assessment, instructional changes, and re-assessment. He recognizes the challenges that college students face, and is continually introducing tools to help our students adapt and excel. He is committed to the accurate assessment of their progress, and to establishing practices that maximize this.

To this work he brings 27 years of experience in teaching. Through public talks, science NASA sponsored primers for teachers, and founding a club for gifted children, he has proselytized for science on two continents.

His scientific background is in using precision cosmology to constrain new theories of particle physics. His published research, with collaborators, proposed a new model of dark energy. He earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Washington.

He believes it is impossible to know the most beautiful things in the universe without wanting to share them. That is why science and teaching are his twin passions. He has many metrics by which to track our students, but his favorite one is simple. It will be the number of students who track him down him ten years from now, just to teach him something amazing.