Franklin's physical body has suffered from age and decay a lot over the last 250 years, but his mind is still as sharp as ever. We expect the talk to be electrifying! (Electrifying, get it?)
As a convenience for the audience, Dr. Franklin has made special arrangements to occupy Buz Piercey’s body while presenting the talk. No special bifocal glasses will be required. (Get it?) Come learn how Dr. Franklin helped found our great nation.
After graduation from Clinton County High School and Centre College, Piercey earned his Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Vanderbilt University. He worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a German research institute, then was an assistant professor at Centre. In 1982-89 he led a program at the University of Florida to study gamma-ray astronomy and the effects of space radiation. At Mississippi State University he rose to become the head of the Physics and Astronomy Department, then moved to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida as a department chair in 2001 and was founding dean of its College of Arts and Sciences in 2002.
Piercey has conducted a very wide range of research, from software reliability to the nature of free will in a quantum reality, and has received numerous awards including one for the design of Kmax, a multi-parameter data acquisition system. He formerly served on the board of directors of Sparrow Corp. and Tribo Flow Separations LLC, and has served on several other government-appointed boards and panels. He and his wife, Katarzyna, a native of Poland, have three children.
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