Andrew Vanden Heuvel, Online Instructor
avheuv99@calvin.edu
616-724-7188
Online Instructor
Areas of interest
Astronomy, Education
Educational background
- BS, Calvin College, 2004
- MS, University of Florida, 2006
Professional history
- Online Instructor, Calvin College, 2012-present
- Part-time Instructor, Calvin College, 2010-2012
- Teacher and Course Developer, Michigan Virtual School, 2009-present; named Michigan Virtual School's Online Teacher of the year November 2010.
- High School Physics Teacher, The Prairie School, 2006-2008
Recent publications
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Vanden Heuvel, A. (2010, July). The Day I Discovered. Sky and Telescope, 86.
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Vanden Heuvel, A., Adamcyzk, M., Greene, B. (2009). Measuring the Distance Modulus of M35 with
the SDSS Filter System. The RBSE Journal, 8(1), 35-41 -
Mahadevan, S., van Eyken, J., Ge, J., DeWitt, C., Fleming, S., Cohen, R., Crepp, J., Vanden Heuvel, A. (2008). Measuring Stellar Radial Velocities with a Dispersed Fixed-Delay Interferometer. The
Astrophysical Journal, 678(2), 1505-1510. -
Crepp, J., Vanden Heuvel, A., and Ge, J. (2007). Comparative Lyot Coronagraphy with Extreme
Adaptive Optics Systems. The Astrophysical Journal, 661(2), 1323-1331. -
Ge, J., van Eyken, J., Mahadevan, S., DeWitt, C., Kane, S., Cohen, R., Vanden Heuvel, A., and 13
coauthors. (2006). The First Extrasolar Planet Discovered with a New-Generation High-Throughput
Doppler Instrument. The Astrophysical Journal, 648(1), 683-695.
