SCHOOL OF SCIENCE

Stress chains research graphicPhysics Faculty

Paul G. Ashcraft, Lecturer of Physics
M.S. in Atmospheric Science, SUNY-Albany, 1988
Physics Education

G. William Baxter, Associate Professor of Physics
Ph.D., Duke University, 1990
Experimental nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation in granular media and fluid systems

Jonathan C. Hall,  Senior Lecturer of Physics
M.S., Westchester College, 1985
Physics education

Roger F. Knacke, Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Director, School of Science
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1969.
Planetary science, infrared astronomy, interstellar matter, star and planet formation

Blair R. Tuttle, Associate Professor of Physics
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997
Theory of materials at nanometer and atomic length scales

Darren M. Williams, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Ph.D., Penn State University, 1998
Origins and evolution of extra-solar planets and satellites.

(on sabbatical Fall 2006)

Bruce P. Wittmershaus, Associate Professor of Physics
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1986
Applications of biomolecules, photosynthesis, solar collectors, nanotechnology and thin films

Chuck Yeung, Professor of Physics
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989
Polymer physics, pattern formation dynamics, computational physics, biophysics


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