Matthew D. McCluskey is a professor in the Department of Physics and
Astronomy and Materials Science Program at Washington State University
(WSU), Pullman. He received a Physics PhD from the University of California,
Berkeley, in 1997, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto
Research Center (PARC) in California from 1997 to 1998. Dr. McCluskey
joined WSU as an assistant professor in 1998. His research interests include
semiconductors, high-pressure physics, and optics. Professor McCluskey has
taught WSU's introductory algebra-based physics courses numerous times.
