Selected Honors and Professional Activities
CASE and Carnegie Foundation 'U.S. Professors of the Year' Award (South Carolina winner)
Governor's Distinguished Professor and South Carolina Professor of the Year (state’s highest honor for academia)
Michael J. Mungo Distinguished Professor of the Year (the university’s most prestigious award)
Michael A. Hill Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year Award
George Pegram Medal for Excellence in Physics Education in the Southeast U.S. 
Mungo University Teaching Award
Fellow of the American Physical Society (supporting paragraph for citation)
Russell Award for Research in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering
Martin-Marietta Publication and Technical Achievement Award
Ralph E. Powe Research Award
National Research Council Senior Fellowship
Advisory Board Member of Physica C Journal (Physica C)
National Science Foundation Panelist
Strategic Research Panelist for the U.S. Department of Energy
High-Resolution Audio Panelist for the Audio Engineering Society Convention in London, U.K.

Selected Invited Talks at International Conferences (142 total invited/keynote talks)
4 invited "APS" talks (at Annual Meetings of the American Physical Society): Los Angeles, CA; Austin, TX; Minneapolis, MN; and Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
"Collaborative Conference on Materials Research"  in Incheon-Seoul, South Korea
"International Conference on Superconductivity for Energy" in Paestum, Italy
"NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Nanotechnology" in Yalta, Ukraine
"The 57^th Annual Department of Atomic Energy – Solid State Physics Symposium" in Mumbai, India
"The 128^th Audio Engineering Society Convention" in London, U.K.
" International Conference on Nanoscience and Engineering in Superconductivity" in Tsukuba, Japan
"Energy Materials Nanotechnology Meeting" in Prague, Czech Republic
"Collaborative conference on 3D and Materials Research" in Busan, South Korea
"International Conference on Vortex matter in nanostructured superconductors" in Crete, Greece
"19th General Conference of the EPS Condensed Matter Division" in Brighton, U.K.
"International Workshop on Unconventional Superconductors" in Campinas, Brazil
"Workshop on Vortex Dynamics and Dissipation" in Budapest, Hungary
"Workshop on the Microscopic Structure and Dynamics...Superconductors" in Dresden, Germany
"Advances in superconductivity and its Applications to Microwaves Conference" in Delhi, India
"Superconductivity Conference" in San Louis Potosi, Mexico
"Sixth International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity" in Houston, TX, U.S.A.

Research areas

High-fidelity sound reproduction, psychophysics, and auditory neurophysiology (downloadable publications)

Superconductivity and nano-structured materials (downloadable publications)