Part, The Third:

What to say here? It has been a long, interesting, highly non-linear path to get to the point where I can write this entry. I have accepted a physics faculty position at Rochester Institute of Technology. I will join RIT this fall as a junior faculty member and begin setting up an x-ray diffraction lab on campus.

This represents the realization of a dream that started many years ago, and was revised numerous times as I matured. It has involved a great deal of work to get to this point. Many times that work was very exciting, and always challenging. However, other times it required substantial stubbornness and endurance.

This success is in no small part to all those that I have worked with during the years. I benefited enormously from many different people and sources.

• My dear wife Kerri and our families.

• My professors from my undergraduate years at RPI, those at graduate school at UW, and even as far back as Amarillo College.

• The research advisers, collaborators, and many colleagues through the years.

• The many friends I’ve made along the way, having taught me important things about life beyond physics.

(I’ll offer my apologies for not actually posting individual names above. I just prefer not to disclose personal information about others in this forum without consent.)