

{"id":1,"date":"2019-05-04T13:52:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T17:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/?p=1"},"modified":"2019-05-06T22:04:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T02:04:02","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/2019\/05\/04\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Matthew Newby, Assistant Professor of Instruction in Physics at Temple University.&nbsp; My background is in astronomy, astrophysics, computational physics, statistical data analysis, history of science, and physics education.<\/p>\n<p>I did my PhD research at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI; pronounced &#8220;Ren-sa-leer&#8221; or sometimes just &#8220;Ren-sler&#8221;) working under Prof. Heidi Newberg on the MilkyWay@home distributed computing project (This is where the image below is from), which can be found here:&nbsp; https:\/\/milkyway.cs.rpi.edu\/milkyway\/<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the scientific output of this work, you can blame me for a large number of the graphics on the MilkyWay@home project.<\/p>\n<p>I was hired by Temple University in January 2015, and have made it my goal to bring advanced topics in physics (and science in general) to a broader audience, and to help undergraduate and graduate students in physics (and other sciences) build successful careers in science.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/files\/2019\/05\/MW_pic-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A science guy.\" class=\"wp-image-5\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/files\/2019\/05\/MW_pic-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/files\/2019\/05\/MW_pic-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/files\/2019\/05\/MW_pic-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/files\/2019\/05\/MW_pic.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Yes, that&#8217;s all real data and work.  The only staged part of this photo is that I&#8217;m wearing a nice shirt.  And cleaned my desk a little.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Note:  <br>RPI is in Troy, New York, just across Hudson river from Albany, NY.<br>Temple University is in the Northern part of the city of Philadelphia, PA.  Ben Franklin&#8217;s house is about 30-40 min away by subway.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Temple University got its start in the basement of a Baptist Temple, but has since dropped the religious affiliation.  It has a really interesting service-based history (See:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.temple.edu\/about\/history-traditions\">https:\/\/www.temple.edu\/about\/history-traditions<\/a>) , and maintains a strong commitment to community service to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nI&#8217;m Matthew Newby, Assistant Professor of Instruction in Physics at Temple University.&nbsp; My background is in astronomy, astrophysics, computational physics,&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/2019\/05\/04\/hello-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Hello!&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":17712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}