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 Don Moon

Don P. Moon, Professor Emeritus of Natural Sciences

“Learning at Shimer is a kind of deep play in which everybody participates and everyone wins."

Moon has been at Shimer since 1967, spending twenty-six years as President of the College and now President and Professor Emeritus.  From 1959 to 1964 Moon was a nuclear reactor physicist at Argonne National Laboratory; from 1966 to 1967 he taught mathematics and physics at Sauk Valley Community College in Dixon, Illinois.  Moon received the Master of Divinity in 1965 and in addition to his work at Shimer he is pastoral assistant at Christ Episcopal Church, Waukegan.

EDUCATION

M.S., Nuclear Reactor Engineering
New York University, 1958

B.S., Engineering Physics
Cornell University, 1957

Advanced studies in physics and mathematics
International School of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois Institute of Technology, and University of Wisconsin at Madison

Master of Divinity
Nashotah House Seminary (Episcopal), 1965

SELECTED ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS

Awarded Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Shimer College (1985)

Chairman, Community Advisory Panel for the decommissioning of the Zion Nuclear Station (1998-2001)   

Awarded Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award by the Illinois Humanities Council (2002)