William V. Slaton

I was born in Columbia, Mississippi, and grew up in rural southwest Arkansas. I attended Blevins School District and The University of Central Arkansas as an undergraduate physics major.

I got my PhD in physics from The University of Mississippi and went to The Technical University at Eindhoven for a wonderful two-year post-doc in the Netherlands. A perfect opportunity presented itself and I accepted a position as a faculty member at my undergraduate alma mater and have been here ever since.

I share my life with my lovely wife, Anna, and our three dogs, Rosie, Honey, and Luna, plus our two cats, Tiberious Maximus and Bob.

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FIG. 1 — Assembly of a high altitude balloon instrumentation board, Lewis Science Center.