I grew up (since 1980, anyway) on a farm near Washington, Missouri, about an hour west of St. Louis. I attended Union High School.
In the summer of 1988, I attended the Missouri Scholars Academy.
In the summer of 1990, I was one of two Missouri delegates to the National Youth Science Camp. Check out the 1990 NYSC delegation page.
I graduated from Caltech in 1994 with a BS Physics. I lived in Lloyd House.
Then, I became a graduate student at Boston University in the Astronomy Department.
I escaped with a Masters and became a residential faculty member at
the Alabama School of Mathematics and
Science where I taught computational science and fencing and lived
in the student dorms as a hall director. I got an iguana in Boston and
brought it with me to Alabama. We weren't supposed to have pets so I
didn't tell anyone until I arrived. The students liked Pedro, but I lost him over the Summer.
I attended graduate school at the University of Rochester in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. I defended my dissertation in December, 2001.
I was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University in the Psychology department and the Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior.
As of 2005 July 1, I'm back at the University of Rochester as an Assistant Professor (Research) in the Rochester Center for Brain Imaging.