FROSTBURG, Md. (AP) - Frostburg State University is announcing a physics scholarship honoring a late professor known for creating offbeat demonstrations.
The award is named for Stephen Luzader (loo-ZAY’-der), who died in June at age 72. The university announced it on Monday.
Luzader taught at the university in western Maryland from 1990 to 2007. He was also a French horn player and an amateur astronomer, and he incorporated those interests into his teaching methods.
For example, he demonstrated acoustic principles by assembling various diameters of PVC pipe into a 12-foot alphorn (ALP’-horn), like those associated with Swiss mountain dwellers.
Luzader and his wife, physics professor Hang Deng-Luzader (hahng-dayng-loo-ZAY’-der) also established a summer program at Frostburg State to teach middle-school students about the physics of solar and wind power.
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