Don P. Moon, Professor of Natural Sciences

Moon has been at Shimer since 1967, spending twenty-six years as President of the College and now President Emeritus.  At Shimer, Moon has taught the Natural Sciences core many times over, teaches several courses in the Humanities and the

Social Sciences, and teaches the capstone courses Integrative Studies 5 and 6.  He has also been assigned to the graduate Teaching Fellows Program. 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.

“Learning at Shimer is a kind of deep play in which everybody participates and everyone wins.”—Don P. Moon

EDUCATION

M.S., Nuclear Reactor Engineering, New York University, 1958
B.S., Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 1957
Advanced studies in physics and mathematics at the 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

RECENT ELECTIVES AND TUTORIALS TAUGHT

Introduction to Statistics
Statistical Theory
Calculus I & II
Cosmology
Ethics of War

AREAS OF INTEREST/SPECIALIZATION

The natural sciences, mathematics, cosmology, history, philosophy, and theology.

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)