JOSEPH D. ROMANO Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Texas at Brownsville 80 Fort Brown Brownsville, TX 78520 Teaching Experience: Undergraduate-level: Introduction to Astronomy, Elementary Physics and Acoustics I and II, General Physics (lecture and lab), University Physics (lecture and lab), Mathematical Methods, Theoretical Physics,Classical Mechanics, Electromagnetic Theory, and Quantum Mechanics. Graduate-level: Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, Electrodynamics, General Relativity, Mathematical Methods, and a gra duatelevel reading course on the statistical theory of signal detection. General Relativity to 4th year students at Cardiff University and 3rd year project supervision on black holes. Matthew John Benacquista Dept. of Physics University of Texas RioGrande Valley One W. University Drive Brownsville, TX 78521 TEACHING: 2011 - present: Prof. of Physics, University of Texas at Brownsville 2006 - 2011: Assoc. Prof. of Physics, University of Texas at Brownsville 2000 - 2006: Prof. of Physics, Montana State University - Billings 1995 - 2000: Assoc. Prof. of Physics, Montana State University - Billings 1990 - 1995: A sst. Prof. of Math & Phys., Eastern Montana College 1988 - 1990: Asst. Prof. Phys., Eastern Montana College BOOKS: "An Introduction to the Evolution of Single and Binary Stars", M. Benacquista, Springer, New York. (2012).