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Andereck Photo Barbara S. Andereck (Department of Physics and Astronomy)
Ph.D., Rutgers University. Specialty: theoretical solid state physics. Teaches an array of physics and astronomy courses. Research interests: physics of liquid crystals, especially phase transitions. Project title: Coupled Mechanical Oscillators, Experiment and Computer Simulation.

Harmon Photo Robert O. Harmon (Department of Physics and Astronomy)
Ph.D., University of Chicago. Specialty: computational and observational astrophysics. Teaches courses on astronomy, astrophysics, and physics. Research interests: photometry, stellar surface imaging, inverse theory. Project title: Stellar Surface Imaging via Light-Curve Inversion. 

Kaye Photo Robert A. Kaye (Department of Physics and Astronomy)
Ph.D., Florida State University. Specialty: experimental nuclear physics. Teaches courses on introductory physics, advanced physics laboratory, and electronics. Research interests: high-spin nuclear structure studies via gamma-ray spectroscopy, particle-gamma branching ratios in nuclear astrophysical reactions. Project title: Nuclear Structure of Exotic Proton-Rich Nuclei. 

Scott Linder  Scott Linder (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science)
Ph.D., The Ohio State University. Specialty: Statistics and the analysis of data subject to censoring. Teaches primarily statistics courses (mathematical and applied), probability, calculus and other mathematics courses. Project titles: Sampling Distribution of Regression Statistics with Data Subjected to Type II Censoring and Comparison of Conditional and Unconditional Inferential Methods.

Sean McCulloch  Sean McCulloch (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science)
Ph.D., The University of Virginia. Teaches courses in computer science. Specialty: algorithm design for graph theory, computational geometry, and design automation for computer chips. Project title: Shared Shortest Paths in Graphs.  

Trees Photo Brad R. Trees (Department of Physics and Astronomy)
(REU Program Principle Investigator) Ph.D., Ohio State University. Speciality: theoretical condensed matter physics. Teaches introductory and upper-level physics courses. Research interests: dynamics of Josephson junction arrays and synchronization of coupled oscillators. Project title: Coupled Nonlinear Systems: the Rich Physics of Josephson Junction Arrays and Micro- and Nanomechanical Oscillators. 

Secrest Photo Kail Secrest (Physics and Astronomy Technician)
A.A., Columbus State University. Specialty: electronics. Maintains department laboratory apparatus, and sets up experiments in the teaching labs.


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