Dr. Paul Quinn

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  Published on: 8/14/2009    Last Visited: 8/14/2009  

  Paul Quinn is currently working with the AFSCME President to get their union to participate in the survey during the spring 2009 semester.
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  Dr. Paul Quinn
  
  Dr. Quinn (Physical Sciences) is a theoretical physicist whose main research interests center on the movement of granular materials, research that has implications for everything from cans of mixed nuts to the movement of soil particles during earthquakes. One of Dr. Quinn's side projects also gained him widespread recognition (he appeared recently on PBS) and a patent - he has discovered a technique for doubling the size of popcorn when it is popped!
  
  Dr. Quinn's parents were both union presidents, so he comes to his involvement in APSCUF naturally. He is a delegate to the APSCUF Executive Committee, and chairs the Legislative Committee. He also serves on the Strike Committee.
  
  In all of these roles, Dr. Quinn sees the preservation of quality working conditions for the faculty as vitally important. Whether through keeping class sizes down, maintaining high standards through faculty oversight of the tenure and promotion process, or fighting to keep faculty control of your curriculum, APSCUF is working to ensure that Kutztown will attract and retain top-quality faculty (like Dr. Quinn) who will have the time to devote to you, our students.

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  Paul Quinn Delegate (08)

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  Dr. Paul Quinn
  
  Dr. Quinn (Physical Sciences) is a theoretical physicist whose main research interests center on the movement of granular materials, research that has implications for everything from cans of mixed nuts to the movement of soil particles during earthquakes. One of Dr. Quinn's side projects also gained him widespread recognition (he appeared recently on PBS) and a patent - he has discovered a technique for doubling the size of popcorn when it is popped!
  
  Dr. Quinn's parents were both union presidents, so he comes to his involvement in APSCUF naturally. He is a delegate to the APSCUF Executive Committee, and chairs the Legislative Committee. He also serves on the Strike Committee.
  
  In all of these roles, Dr. Quinn sees the preservation of quality working conditions for the faculty as vitally important.

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  Published on: 6/28/2007    Last Visited: 12/17/2008  

  Dr. Paul Quinn
  
  Dr. Quinn (Physical Sciences) is a theoretical physicist whose main research interests center on the movement of granular materials, research that has implications for everything from cans of mixed nuts to the movement of soil particles during earthquakes. One of Dr. Quinn's side projects also gained him widespread recognition (he appeared recently on PBS) and a patent - he has discovered a technique for doubling the size of popcorn when it is popped!
  
  Dr. Quinn's parents were both union presidents, so he comes to his involvement in APSCUF naturally. He is a delegate to the APSCUF Executive Committee, and chairs the Legislative Committee. He also serves on the Strike Committee.
  
  In all of these roles, Dr. Quinn sees the preservation of quality working conditions for the faculty as vitally important.

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  Published on: 3/29/2007    Last Visited: 3/31/2007  

  Dr. Paul Quinn, Physics professor said, adding, "I think we'd ask high schools, and the Boy Scouts sounded interested."

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  You might ask Paul Quinn if he'll lend you his special popcorn machine to make better popcorn.
  
  Quinn was a graduate student at Lehigh University in 1999 when his adviser, Daniel Hong, started thinking about how to apply physics to everyday things.
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  Hong died of complications from a liver transplant in 2002 and Both moved on to Stanford University, but Quinn, who had already left Lehigh, decided to finish the experiment.
  
  So he built a vacuum popper.
  
  Quinn, now an assistant professor of physics at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, hooked a vacuum pump into a stovetop pressure cooker, hoping that the decrease in pressure would allow the kernels to expand further than they do in a microwave or in a regular stovetop popper.
  
  To his surprise, the popcorn was almost twice as big as regular popcorn, and had fewer unpopped kernels.He doubled the popcorn's volume.
  
  "The theory is very simple, which is why we didn't think it was going to work," Quinn said.
  
  Although his training is in physics and granular materials, Quinn is continuing work on his special popper, and has applied for a patent on the device.The new apparatus would let the everyday popcorn lover take advantage of the process he discovered, though he's secretive about it for now.
  
  Discover magazine describes it as a contraption with two dog-food bowls and an off-the-shelf microwave.Quinn said results of his testing thus far are promising.
  
  But both Quinn and Chandrasekaran say their work is not just for popcorn eaters.The Carbohydrate Center conducts all sorts of research about starches like popcorn; finding a way to slow the digestion of starches, for instance, might help reduce obesity, Chandrasekaran said.
  
  Quinn doesn't want to have much to do with the food production; he says he just likes the pure physics of popcorn.If he makes money from his new device, then all the better, but he's not expecting much.
  
  "Me, I just like it as a learning tool," he said.

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  Paul Quinn (Term Expires - 5/31/10) 610-683-4441 quinn@kutztown.edu

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  Paul Quinn (Term Expires - 5/31/10) 610-683-4441 quinn@kutztown.edu

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  Published on: 6/29/2004    Last Visited: 4/17/2008  

  Budget Committee winners included Paul Quinn of Kutztown, Eric Hawrelak of Bloomsburg, and Clifford Johnston of West Chester.

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  Published on: 5/7/2005    Last Visited: 5/8/2005  

  You might ask Paul Quinn if he'll lend you his special popcorn machine to make better popcorn.
  
  Quinn was a graduate student at Lehigh University in 1999 when his adviser, Daniel Hong, started thinking about how to apply physics to everyday things.
  ...
  Hong died of complications from a liver transplant in 2002 and Both moved on to Stanford University, but Quinn, who had already left Lehigh, decided to finish the experiment.
  
  So he built a vacuum popper.
  
  Quinn, now an assistant professor of physics at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, hooked a vacuum pump into a stovetop pressure cooker, hoping that the decrease in pressure would allow the kernels to expand further than they do in a microwave or in a regular stovetop popper.
  
  To his surprise, the popcorn was almost twice as big as regular popcorn, and had fewer unpopped kernels.He doubled the popcorn's volume.
  
  "The theory is very simple, which is why we didn't think it was going to work," Quinn said.
  
  Although his training is in physics and granular materials, Quinn is continuing work on his special popper, and has applied for a patent on the device.The new apparatus would let the everyday popcorn lover take advantage of the process he discovered, though he's secretive about it for now.
  
  Discover magazine describes it as a contraption with two dog-food bowls and an off-the-shelf microwave.Quinn said results of his testing thus far are promising.

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