Professor Anderson-Huang grew up in Massachusetts and went to college at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He majored in astronomy and graduated in 1966. From there, he went to graduate school at the University of California in Berkeley and received his Ph.D. in 1977. While a graduate student, he spent a short stint as the director of the planetarium at Chabot College in Hayward, CA. After a year of post-graduate research in millimeter astronomy, he was hired as Planetarium Director and faculty member by the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio in 1978. His research while at Toledo has stemmed from is doctoral thesis in the numerical simulation of radiative transport in stellar atmospheres. He also served as the director of UT’s Master of Liberal Studies Program for five years. He retired in 2016 after serving five years as Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and continues to teach part time in both that Department and the Master of Liberal Studies program. He enjoys travel, watercolor painting, and building cabinets and furniture.
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