Barbara Ryden: A Teacher's Teacher ​(#206)

Professor Barbara Ryden has been a member of the Ohio State
University faculty since 1992, Prof. Ryden studies the formation,
alignment, and shapes of galaxies, and the large-scale structure of
the universe, and cosmology, including tests for dark energy, dark
matter, and the properties of the primordial density fluctuations.
She is internationally known for her textbook Introduction to
Cosmology, which won the first Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award
in 2006 from the American Astronomical Society, and is now in its
second edition, and she co-authored Foundations of Astrophysics
with Prof. Bradley Peterson, a beginning-level text in astrophysics
for astronomy majors. She is currently editor in chief of the Ohio
State Astrophysics Series, a series of graduate-level textbooks now
in contract with Cambridge University Press. The first two volumes
will be Interstellar & Intergalactic Medium by Prof. Ryden and
Prof. Richard Pogge (2021) and Stellar Structure & Evolution by
Prof. Marc Pinsonneault and Prof. Ryden (2022). Please join my
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