Bio: Dr. Randall L. Milstein is a faculty member in the Oregon State University Physics Department, and the OSU Honors College and has taught at OSU for thirty-five years. He is the recipient of the OSU College of Science Distinguished Service Award for his outreach engagements, and in 2022, named the Sanders Eminent Professor of the OSU Honors College. From 2016-2022 he was Astronomer-in-Residence to the Oregon NASA Space Grant Consortium (OSGC) and currently represents OSU as its Affiliate Representative to the OSGC.

Dr. Milstein is also a NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory Solar System Ambassador. Before coming to OSU Dr. Milstein was a petroleum geologist/geophysicist with the Michigan Geological Survey specializing in subsurface stratigraphic correlation. Dr. Milstein's research interests include astrogeology, impact-cratering dynamics, and archaeoastronomy. Before his career in astronomy and geophyisics, Dr. Milstein was educated and trained as a photographer.