Dr. Doug Ingram has been an instructor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at TCU since 1996. He teaches a variety of classes, including introductory astronomy and physics classes, and maintains an archive of educational resources for undergraduate education in these fields.
Dr. Ingram grew up in Denton, Texas, and did his undergraduate work in astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin. He worked with Paul Hemenway, a member of the UT contingent of the HST Astrometry Science Team, on modeling minor planet light curves and several iterations of HST proposals, and with Art Whipple on a paper on the statistics of minor planet orbits. After earning his BS in astronomy at UT, he went to the University of Washington to pursue his Ph.D. in astronomy.
Since joining TCU, Dr. Ingram has done research on Cataclysmic Variable stars (specifically Nova Herculis 1991) with Paula Szkody and others. He is currently working on a paper about the calibration of M31 (Andromeda galaxy) and the rotation velocity line widths of galaxies in general.