Gintaras K . Duda, BS, PhD

Professor

Physics

G Duda

Contact

gkduda@creighton.edu
College of Arts and Sciences
Medical Physics (Master of Science)
Physics (Master of Science)
Graduate School
Physics
HLSB - Hixson Lied Science Building - G78

Gintaras K . Duda, BS, PhD

Professor

Physics

Gintaras Duda is professor and chair of physics at Creighton University. Trained as a particle theorist, his primary disciplinary research interest is the problem of dark matter: composition, detection, and fundamental theories/origins. In addition to astro-particle physics/cosmology, he is also involved heavily in physics education research, particularly in the areas of problem/project-based learning, evolution of student epistemologies, and studying the effects of attitude on student learning. He served as the co-director of the International Institute for SoTL Scholars and Mentors (IISSAM) in 2011 and the 2010 National CASTL Institute. He has been actively involved in assessment and faculty development at Creighton, having serving four years as a faculty associate in the Office for Academic Excellence and Assessment, and currently sits on both the university and college-level assessment committees. Gintaras has received numerous teaching awards, including a Creighton College of Arts and Sciences award for excellence in teaching in 2010, and the Creighton University Distinguished Educator in Teaching as Scholarship in 2014. He was named the 2013 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Outstanding Master’s Universities and Colleges National Professor of the Year.

Research Focus

My primary disciplinary research interest is the problem of dark matter: composition, detection, and fundamental theories/origins. In addition to astro-particle physics/cosmology, I am also involved heavily in physics education research, particularly in the areas of problem/project-based learning, evolution of student epistemologies, and studying the effects of attitude on student learning.

Department

Physics

Position

Professor

Books

  • College Teaching and Learning for Change : Students and Faculty Speak Out
    Duda Gintaras, The road to a project-based classroom [Book Chapter] 2017

Publications

  • International Journal for Students as Partners
    Duda Gintaras Kazimieras, etal Collaborative curricular (re)construction - Tracking faculty and student learning impacts and outcomes five years later
    2:2, p. 39 - 52 2018
  • Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society
    Duda Gintaras K., Big Questions in Cosmology: Intersections between Science and Religion
    11, p. 93 - 109 2015
  • Change
    Duda Gintaras K., The Road to a Project-Based Classroom
    46:6, p. 42 - 45 2014
  • Ward Kristina, etal The Role of Student Reflection in Project-based Learning Physics Courses 2014
  • Duda Gintaras, etal Student Epistemologies in Project-based Learning Courses 2014
  • Duda Gintaras K., etal Problem-Based Learning in Upper Division Courses: Student Successes, Perceptions, and Reactions 2012
  • Advances in Astronomy
    Duda Gintaras K., etal Dark Matter: A Primer
    2011, p. 1 - 22 2011
  • Advances in Astronomy
    Duda Gintaras, etal Dark matter
    2011, p. - 2011
  • American Journal of Physics
    Duda Gintaras K., etal Blogging in the physics classroom: A research-based approach to shaping students' attitudes toward physics
    76:11, p. 1054 - 1065 2008
  • American Journal of Physics
    Duda Gintaras, etal Blogging in the physics classroom
    76:11, p. 1054 - 1065 2008
  • Nuclear Physics. Section B, Proceedings Supplement
    Duda Gintaras K., What can 1970's Elastic Electron Scattering Experiments tell us about the Direct Detection of Dark Matter?
    173, p. 68 - 71 2007
  • Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
    Duda Gintaras, What can 1970's Elastic Electron Scattering Experiments tell us about the Direct Detection of Dark Matter?
    173, p. 68 - 71 2007
  • Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
    Duda Gintaras K., etal Model-independent form factors for spin-independent neutralino-nucleon scattering from elastic electron scattering data, p. 012 - 012 2007
  • New Astronomy Reviews
    Duda Gintaras, Detectability of weakly interacting dark matter candidates
    49:2-6 SPEC. ISS., p. 139 - 142 2005
  • Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology
    Duda Gintaras K., etal Indirect detection of a subdominant density component of cold dark matter
    67:2, p. 023505(10) 2003
  • Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
    Duda Gintaras, etal Detectability of a subdominant density component of cold dark matter
    529:3-4, p. 187 - 192 2002
  • Physical Review D
    Duda Gintaras, etal Expected signals in relic neutrino detectors
    64:12 2001
  • Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology
    Duda Gintaras K., etal Expected signals in relic neutrino detectors
    64:12, p. 122001(10) 2001
  • Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
    Duda Gintaras K., etal Coadsorption of two monomer species on a square lattice with first- and second-neighbor interactions
    56:3, p. 2447 - 2456 1997

Presentations

  • How to Painlessly (almost!) Embed Continuous Assessment Measures: An example from Project-based Learning (poster 2) -0001
  • Competency-Based Lab Skills Assessments: What have We Learned and Where are We Going? (poster 19) -0001

Grants

  • Physical Manipulatives in the Introductory Studio Physics Classroom: A Pilot Study/Sponsor: Creighton University Center for Faculty Excellence/CFE

  • Integration Through Education: Pedagogical Innovation in Science and Religion/Sponsor: Dr. George F. Haddix President's Faculty Research Grant