Faculty
- Ratio of majors to full-time department faculty: 4:1
- Average class size, introductory: 40
- Average class size, advanced: 10
Full-Time Faculty
Gary Bedrosian
James C. Lombardi B.A., Princeton; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell
Doros Petasis B.S., Indiana University; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
Adele Poynor Torigoe B.S., University of Maryland at Baltimore; M.S., Ph. D. University of Illinois-Champaign
Shafiqur Rahman B.S., Martin Luther University (Germany); M.S., Ph.D., Northwestern University
David Statman B.A., Lafayette College; Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook
Daniel Willey A.B., Dartmouth College; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
Selected Publications and Achievements
- Collaborative work with a number of research institutions, such as Argonne
National Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell National Supercomputer
Center, F.J. Seiler Research Laboratory, Naval Research Laboratory, Columbia
Radiation Laboratory, etc.
- Recipient of $125,000 National Science Foundation Young Investigator
grant-one of just 200 selected from a nationwide pool of 1,600 and one
of just five from liberal arts colleges.
- Department faculty are currently the recipients of research grants from
the National Science Foundation, Research Corporation, Air Force Office
of Scientific Research, and the Petroleum Research Fund.
- "Correlations of structure and electronicproperties from EPR Spectroscopy
of Hydroxylamine Oxido-reductase," published in the Journal of the
American Chemical Society.
- "Collisional Cooling as an Environment for Planetary Research," published
in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
- "Mossbauer Effect in Dehydrated Nitroprussides," published
in the Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry.
- "Intermediate-Temperature Ordering in a Three-state Potts Model," published
in Physical Review.
- "Local Electric Field in Photorefractive and Other Semi-Insulating
Materials," published in Journal of Modern Optics.
- "Laboratory Observation of Maser Action in NH3 through Collisional
Cooling," published in Physical Review Letters.
- "One-Way Imaging Using an Aberrated Reference Beam," published
in Applied Optics.
Learn more about the physics
faculty's research interests at Inside Physics.