Associate Teaching Professor
Biography
Oliver works to bring exceptional experiences to UW students through his classes and in his role as director of the UW's Manastash Ridge Observatory. He develops active-learning curricula for lecture-based and asynchronous-online Astro 101 courses, trains students to observe in Astro 481, and teaches the science communication course Storytelling in the Sciences for the UW's Interdisciplinary Honors Program. He supports astronomy education beyond the UW through the department's planetarium programs, the UW in the High School program, and the Astronomy Education Clearinghouse.