Dr. Brian K. Dennison
Department of Physics, CPO #2430
UNC-Asheville
One Unviersity Heights
Asheville, NC
28804-8511
(828) 232-5036
(828) 251-6397 (Fax)
dennison@unca.edu

Dr. Brian K. Dennison is the Glaxo-Wellcome Distinguished Professor at the
University of North Carolina-Asheville.  Through the Pisgah Astronomical Research and Science Education Center (PARSEC) at UNCA he participates in research based at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) in Rosman, NC, and currently directs a project developing a radio astronomical interferometer.

Prior to joining the Physics Department at UNCA Dr. Dennison was Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics at Virginia Tech.  In 1984-1985 he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Onsala Space Observatory in Sweden.  He also served as a Visiting Scientist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, and as an Intergovernmental Assignee and Radio Astronomer at the E. O. Hulbert Center for Space Research of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL).  In 1987 he was co-awarded the Alan Berman Research Publication Award by the NRL.  Dr. Dennison received his Ph.D. degree from Cornell University in 1976.