Scott Hildreth, Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Chabot College

Scott Hildreth is Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Chabot College in Hayward, California, where he taught for 35 years, and served for more than 25 years as department chair. He developed one of the first fully online classes in Astronomy in 1995, and has been an active user and evaluator of Mastering Physics and Astronomy from their inception. Scott was named in 2021 as one of the first Community College Faculty in the country invited to participate as a NASA Airborne Astronomy Ambassador for SOFIA, and has worked with NASA to develop lab activities using data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. He curates resources for teaching in NASA’s Community College Network project managed by SETI, and his current research interests include LIGO and the continued development and evaluation of online teaching and learning resources.