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A Respected Faculty Member
Professor Dan Reichart is not only a respected faculty member, but a campus hero.
Professor Dan Reichart is not only a respected faculty member, but a campus hero.
Dan Reichart, the Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of Physics and Astronomy, has been a popular and respected faculty member since 2002. He is the director of the Morehead Observatory and director of Skynet, an ever-growing collection of fully automated telescopes controlled by software developed by his team. He earned more respect in November 2017 when he tried to put out a fire at the University’s iconic Davie Poplar tree.
This is story number 181 in the Carolina Stories 225th Anniversary Edition magazine.
