Following an automobile accident in September, physics Professor Peter Carruthers will return this fall to teach the first wavelet class at the UA.

Carruthers was injured Sept. 17 after his Toyota Land Cruiser rolled over on Campbell Avenue just north of East River Road.

Doctors at University Medical Center performed surgery to remove a blood clot from Carruthers' brain and he remained in the hospital until Dec. 8.

Before the accident, Carruthers was teaching graduate-level classes in physics. He served as head of the Physics Department for six years, until 1992.

His return in the fall will mark the first time a wavelet class will be taught at the University of Arizona. The class will study signal transforms and how signals are scrambled and unscrambled to relay information.

Carruthers said he is beginning to structure the class now since it is difficult to teach a new class.

During his recovery over the past six months, Carruthers created some 2,000 paintings.

"The paintings represent psychological moods using eyes and faces," Carruthers said.

"I began painting four years ago during a conference in Turkey," he said. "I was bored with the conference because it was things I had already heard, so my wife bought me a set of paints."

Although he still has pain in his shoulders that makes it difficult to lift a piece of chalk, he will resume his physical therapy and said "I find it only a minor difficulty."