Prior to joining the Lycoming College Department of Astronomy & Physics in 1984, Dr. Fisher spent a year as a post-graduate fellow for the Bartol Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute. Dr. Fisher's research areas include condensed matter physics, radiation damage in crystalline and amorphous materials at low temperature, and space flight history. Most recently Dr. Fisher was on sabbatical during the Fall 2005 semester. His activities during that period are described below.

Dr. Fisher co-edited Salem Press' Third Edition of USA In SPACE; publication date for this three-volume set is January 2006. Dr. Fisher was also a major contributor on all three editions of this reference work, which covers the full spectrum of American space flight history, both piloted missions, and robotic satellites and spacecraft. Dr. Fisher focused on editing the articles that deal with unpiloted spacecraft. In addition to his previous editorial experience, Dr. Fisher relied on his extensive practical experience with several projects coordinated by the Johnson Space Center of NASA's History Office. Over the past five years, Dr. Fisher participated on a range of activities such as setting up a CD database on the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo manned missions, preparing a corrected air to ground transcript for the Apollo 11 first lunar landing mission, and putting together some CD collections of transcripts from the first several shuttle missions.

In addition to his writing, Dr. Fisher also constructed a set of three microwave background radiometers, which will enable the Astronomy and Physics department to broaden its interest and investigations in radio astronomy. Dr. Fisher will rely upon student help to build a portable radio telescope that will enable faculty and students to study decametric radiations from the planet Jupiter. Dr. Fisher, with help from other faculty members, also set up the College's Fall Symposium: Einstein and his Miraculous Year. He took a short course on Atomic Bomb development, a historical perspective on the Manhattan Engineering District, provided by the Smithsonian Institution's National Atomic Museum located in Albuquerque; this included visits to Los Alamos and the Trinity Bomb site where the very first atomic bomb was exploded.