Professor Profiles — Bradley Roth
By JILLIAN FIELD
Asst. Ads Manager
Name: Bradley Roth
Department: Physics
1. What classes do you teach?
I teach physics at all levels, from PHY 101 to graduate classes. This semester I am teaching something different: an honors college class called The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
2. Who in your field inspires you to teach?
My PhD dissertation advisor, John Wikswo, who teaches at Vanderbilt University.
3. What is on your reading list?
I recommend all students buy and read the 4th Edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology, by Hobbie and…ahem…Roth.
4. Could you describe what you do at OU in one sentence?
I teach, do research in, and promote biomedical applications of physics.
5. What is your favorite OU sport to watch live?
Basketball
6. It’s lunchtime and you’re hungry. Have you packed your own, are you going to the OC or ordering out?
I packed my own. I sit in my office and eat with one hand while typing on the computer with the other.
7. How is your office looking? In other words, if I were a student that had an appointment, would I be able to see you around the piles of papers?
Either it will be a mess and you won’t be able to see me, or it will be clean and I won’t be able to find anything. Also, there are lots of crumbs from lunch.
8. When is bedtime?
Ten p.m. (but I get up early).
9. Where is the most interesting place that your studies or job have taken you?
I found working at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland to be fascinating.
10. What do you hope that students know before they take your class?
I hope my students know that if they don’t understand something, they should ask questions or visit my office. Why is it that the only students who come to office hours are the ones that don’t need to?
