Dr Matt McConeghy

Department of Science, Johnson & Wales University, Providence, RI, USA

Dr. Matt McConeghy was educated at Duke University, and received graduate training in biology at the University of Arizona (MS) and the University of Connecticut (PhD). He was the Head Technologist at Einstein Medical Center, and taught in Tucson, Arizona and New Haven, Connecticut before coming to Johnson & Wales University in 1986. He was made a full Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences in 1992.

At present he is teaching primarily freshman and sophomore students in the SC3010 Environmental Science survey course for non-majors.

At J&W Dr McConeghy has taught more than thirty different courses and has been Chairperson of the Departments of Computer Business Education, Mathematics and Science, and Acting Chair of the School of Technology.

He taught for several years in the Graduate School where he was advisor for more than 40 Masters degree theses. He was responsible for hiring more than a dozen of our current faculty, including several department chairs -- at least eight current faculty members are his former students.

12/2005
Woonasquatucket River at Allendale Mill with students on a Community Service Learning assignment

Dr, McConeghy has received several grants which have allowed him to travel to Britain, Hawaii and Alaska, Iceland, Central America and the Caribbean in pursuit of his interests in Environmental Science. His major academic interest is the history and environmental impact of humans in urbanizing areas. He has been one of the principal writers on the Woonasquatucket River and its surroundings. One of his favorite projects was producing a workbook for teachers Along the Woonasquatucket funded by an Eisenhower grant in 1994. (link to some travel pages just for fun)

While his scholarly interests center on the river, he shares an active interest in music, Duke basketball and sci-fi movies with his three sons. (here is us hanging around on the porch all summer playing Southern fiddle music )

Dr M has three sons, all of whom are currently working on their doctorates. This picture is a few years ago - On the day David graduated from Duke, Kevin and Rob competed in the National Science Olympiad against the best high school science students in the USA. Kevin won the Bronze medal in Chemistry and Rob won the Silver medal in Rockets.

Several Times Dr. M has been called on to travel outside the USA to carry out important work for the university, the National Science Foundation and other agencies....

... on tough assignment in Central America, 2002

Dr M makes a suggestion to the President's advisors! 2003...

...inspecting glaciers,
Alaska, June, 1999

... what glaciers? Alaska, June, 2004.
Global warming, anyone?

Near the rift between the Eurasian/North American tectonic plates at Thingivellir, Iceland.

Matt hobnobs at a scientific conference in Selfoss, Iceland. The lady is the ex-President of Iceland, and the distinguished gent to her far left is the current President. The politicians are better at ignoring photo-intrusions than the college prof. In Iceland the environment is a big issue, so these high level politicians came to the conference and listened attentively to a lot of intensely soporific speeches.

In Iceland at the Reykanes crater, and in Jamaica at the Rainforest Canopy study center just returned from a walk in the treetops, July 2007.

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