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William J. Dirienzo (he/him/his)

Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States

William Dirienzo is an associate professor and chair of Physics in the Natural and Applied Sciences Unit of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, teaching primarily at the Sheboygan Campus. He completed his Bachelor of Science degree with Comprehensive Honors in Physics, Astronomy-Physics, and Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Astronomy at the University of Virginia, where he was a recipient of the Edward P. Owens Fellowship from the Jefferson Scholars Foundation and the Graduate Fellowship from the Virginia Space Grant Consortium. Prof. Dirienzo’s research specialty is observational radio astronomy in galactic star formation. His work combines data from ground-based radio observatories with space-based infrared telescopes to study the formation processes of massive stars in the Milky Way, particularly in infrared dark clouds and infrared bubbles. Prof. Dirienzo also has a strong interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning, especially as it applies to introductory level science courses and online learning. He teaches physics, astronomy, and environmental science courses. He also likes to emphasize getting undergraduate students into research experiences to learn about the process of science and develop skills in statistics, computer programming, and technical writing. This often occurs with students in the Astronomy Club and rocket teams that he mentors, which build high-powered rockets for launch competitions and payloads for NASA suborbital sounding rockets.

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