{"id":1436,"date":"2013-07-05T15:31:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T22:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/acarpenter\/?page_id=1436"},"modified":"2016-09-01T12:04:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T19:04:25","slug":"about-dr-c","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/acarpenter\/about-dr-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Info About Dr. C."},"content":{"rendered":"

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My name is Alfred Carey Carpenter and I teach\u00a0human anatomy and human physiology to pre-medical professional students at Palomar College. About Dr. C.<\/span><\/p>\n

I go by my middle name, but most of my students simply call me “Dr. C.”; I’m really not sure if the “C” stands for “Carey” or “Carpenter”.<\/p>\n

Before coming to Palomar, I was at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon. I taught anatomy, physiology, biology, and a course I developed titled “Science and Pseudoscience”.\u00a0It was one of toughest decisions I ever made, but in 1997, after 15 years in Oregon, we decided to return California.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1981 I received a PhD in physiology from the University\u00a0of\u00a0California,\u00a0Berkeley. While finishing up my degree, I taught at Mills College in Oakland, Mission College in Santa Clara, and California State University, Hayward (now Cal State East Bay). Prior to Berkeley, I attended UC Riverside where I received a bachelor’s degree in biology.<\/p>\n

My first college experiences were at West Valley Community College in Saratoga, California, where I received some of the best college-level instruction I would ever receive. In fact, one of the reasons I chose to teach at a community college was because of my experiences at West Valley.<\/p>\n

I attended Blackford High School in San Jose, California. It was here that I developed my fascination with the subject of biology that has lasted my entire life; this was almost entirely due to my sophomore-year biology teacher, Mr. Frederick Fischer. Yes, teachers do matter!<\/p>\n

FWIW: I was born in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. I spent my 1st semester of kindergarten in Gehring, Nebraska, and my 2nd in Los Angeles. When I was 10, the family moved to San Jose.<\/p>\n

My hobbies include reading, playing the piano, writing and recording songs<\/a>, and messing with my MacBook, Galaxy, iPad, and Kindle. Way back in the day, I was a piano player in a rock’n’roll band;\u00a0here I am, wearing a disguise<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like many others, my life story is not particularly exciting, but no matter: we all live in a tremendously exciting universe. One of my greatest joys comes when I can successfully convey to my students just how amazing the universe is, beginning with the two courses that are the ultimate in self-discovery, courses that bring to light the reasons\u00a0why we can appreciate the\u00a0universe\u00a0in the first place: human anatomy and human physiology.<\/p>\n

A. Carey Carpenter<\/p>\n

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