The University will be closed December 18, 2025 to January 4, 2026. If you need assistance during that time, please call 1-855-OWU-1842 and leave a detailed voicemail along with your contact information. One of our colleagues will respond to your call as soon as possible.
If you would like to make a 2025 gift, please make your gift before midnight on December 31.
Our resident astrophysicist, skeptic, and freethinker. Don joined the staff of Perkins in 2003 after seven years as a volunteer. He runs the 32" telescope, gives astronomy and science lectures, takes care of the observatory, is webmaster of this site, and runs the public programs. When not at Perkins Observatory he can usually be found at a coffee shop with an espresso in one hand and a book in the other. Don is working to complete his astrophysics doctorate. He is also a member of the Columbus Astronomical Society and a former officer.