| Summary: | Physicist and professor David Garrison was born on October 27, 1975, in Chicago, Illinois, though he spent his childhood in O'Fallon, Missouri. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with his B.S. degree in physics in 1997. In 2002, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in physics from Pennsylvania State University. That same year, he began working at the University of Houston-Clear Lake as an assistant professor, and later became an associate professor and faculty chair of the department. He started the physics department and created the curriculum for undergraduate and graduate programs, in addition to his teaching and research responsibilities. His research fields include computational physics and cosmology and have led him to collaborative projects with NASA's Johnson Space Center, including one for a plasma rocket engine. Garrison has also been involved in university governance, having sat on the UHCL University Council, Academic Council, and Faculty Senate.
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