Biology | Chemistry | Computer Science | Engineering
Humanities and Social Sciences | Mathematics | Physics
David Asai, Stuart Mudd Professor of Biology and Department Chair
Education: Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Research Interests: structural basis for dynein-mediated microtubule motility .
Stephen C. Adolph, Associate Professor of Biology
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington
Research Interests: Physiological, evolutionary and behavioral ecology of lizards; mathematical models in ecology and evolution; statistical estimation of physiological performance
Anna Ahn, Assistant Professor of Biology
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Neural control and mechanics of animal locomotion
Robert Drewell, Assistant Professor of Biology
Education: Ph.D., King's College, University of Cambridge
Research Interests: The functional role of presently uncharacterized genomic DNA in epigenetic and cis-regulation of gene expression during embryonic development
Karl Haushalter, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biology
Education: Ph.D. Harvard University
Research Interests: The influence of chromatin structure on DNA processing enzymes; biochemistry of protein; nucleic acid interactions
Catherine S. McFadden, Vivian and D. Kenneth Baker Professor of Biology
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington
Research Interests: Molecular systematics of Octocorallia; life history evolution in colonial marine invertebrates
Elizabeth Cornelius Orwin, Assistant Professor of Engineering and Biology Education: B.S., Harvey Mudd College; Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Research Interests: Tissue engineering, bioreactor design and soft tissue biomechanics
Mary E. Williams, Associate Professor of Biology
Education: Ph.D., The Rockefeller University
Research Interests: molecular and cellular mechanisms regulating plant development in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
Chemistry
Shenda Mary Baker, Professor of Chemistry
Education: Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Creation and control of self-assembled nanoscopic structures of thin polymer films, surface and interfacial properties, nano-biosensors and natural polymer chemistry.
Robert J. Cave, Professor of Chemistry
Education: Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Electronic structure theory and the quantum mechanical treatment of electron transfer reactions with a particular focus on understanding how distance and orientation affect the rate of electron transfer in biological and synthetic electron transfer reactions
G. William Daub, Professor of Chemistry and Department Chair
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Interests: The development of new regio- and stereoselective reactions for organic synthesis
Karl Haushalter, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biology
Education: Ph.D. Harvard University
Research Interests: The influence of chromatin structure on DNA processing enzymes; biochemistry of protein; nucleic acid interactions
Adam R. Johnson, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Education: Ph.D., Massachusettes Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Design of ligands for the synthesis of chiral transition metal complexes; enantioselective catalysis
Kerry K. Karukstis, Professor of Chemistry
Education: Ph.D., Duke University
Research Interests: Applications of absorbance and fluorescence spectroscopy to supramolecular assemblies (micelles, reverse micelles, vesicles) and macromolecular host-guest systems (cyclodextrins, dendrimers); spectroscopic analyses of surfactant aggregations and drug-delivery systems; determination of phase diagrams via fluorescence spectroscopy; incorporation of the case study method in chemistry courses to explore the interaction of science and society and develop critical thinking, teamwork, and oral communication skills; women as leaders in science and engineering
Mitsuru Kubota, Professor of Chemistry Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois
Research Interests: study of catalysis by metal compounds and inorganic chemistry.
Philip C. Myhre, Professor of Chemistry Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington
Research Interests: Study of organic reaction mechanisms and the characterization of reaction intermediates
Gerald R. Van Hecke, Donald A. Strauss Professor of Chemistry and Associate Dean for Administration
Education: B.S., Harvey Mudd College; Ph.D., Princeton University
Research Interests: Studies of liquid crystals: synthesis, thermodynamics of mixtures, polarized spectroscopy and computer simulations of liquid crystalline mixtures; thermodynamics of liquid mixtures studied by laser light scattering.
Hal Van Ryswyk, Professor of Chemistry
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Research Interests: Study of energy and electron transfer in self-assembled systems; electronic materials; monolayer chemistry at surfaces; analytical chemistry
David A. Vosburg, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Education: Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute
Research Interests: Biomimetic cyclizations and natural product synthesis
Christine Alvarado, Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D., Massachusettes Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Computer sketch understanding; sketch-based user interfaces
Zachary Dodds, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Research Interests: Real-time vision, vision-based mobile robot control and robotic hand/eye coordination
Michael A. Erlinger, Professor of Computer Science and Chair
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests: Computer networking (protocols, management, security and wireless sensor networks), implementation and use
Robert M. Keller, Csilla and Walt Foley Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Computer Science Clinic
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: parallel and real-time computing, soft computing, formal methods, model-checking, languages and music software
Geoff Kuenning, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests: Operating systems, file systems, computer security
Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Joseph B. Platt Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [GTE Fellow]
Research Interests: Algorithms for optical networks, routing algorithms and theoretical computer science
Melissa O'Neill, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Education: Ph.D., Simon Fraser University
Research Interests: Functional programming languages and parallelism.
Christopher Stone, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Education: Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interests: Type theory, programming language semantics, object calculi and compilers
Elizabeth Sweedyk, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: algorithms, complexity theory, computational biology, visualization, computer games, and computer graphics.
Lori Bassman, Associate Professor of Engineering
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Interests: Deformation mechanisms in polycrystalline metals, computational mechanics and plant biomechanics
Carl J. Baumgaertner, Clinical Professor of Engineering
Education: B.S., St. Thomas College; postgraduate studies at University of Minnesota
Research Interests: Engineering challenges in the aerospace and defense industry, particularly analog electronic circuits and closed loop control systems
Anthony Bright, Professor of Engineering and Chair
Education: Ph.D., University of Bradford, England
Research Interests: hydrodynamics of jets and drop formation.
Mary Cardenas, Associate Professor of Engineering
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Interests: numerical modeling of the fate and transport of sediments and toxic contaminants in water, both surface waters and groundwater.
Philip D. Cha, Professor of Engineering
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Interests: Effects of parameter uncertainties on the dynamics of structures; model updating; imposing nodes for arbitrarily supported elastic structures during harmonic excitations; frequency analysis of combined dynamical systems; vibration of beams carrying spring-mass-damper systems; vibration suppression using oscillators.
Ziyad H. Duron, Jude and Eileen Laspa Professor of Engineering and Director of the De Pietro Fellowship Program in Civil Engineering
Education: B.S. Harvey Mudd College, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Research Interests: earthquake engineering, aerospace engineering, fire engineering, system characterization, and structural dynamics. Experimental field tests on large structures and launch vehicles. Active areas of research include development of field procedures for monitoring impending collapse in burning buildings, development of progressive monitoring technqiues for damaged structures, development of enhanced analysis technqiues that transform measured vibration responses from damaged structures and create stability indicators allowing spatial and time evaluation of changing conditions in the structure. A second and active area include the development of field test procedures or large civil structrues including large concrete dams and the correlation of measured field responses and observed behavior to numerical models that can be used to evaluate seismic and operational performance under varying load conditions.
Clive L. Dym, Fletcher Jones Professor of Engineering Design; Director of the Center for Design Education
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Interests: Engineering design and structural mechanics.
David Money Harris, Associate Professor of Engineering
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Interests: Digital systems, integrated circuit design and microprocessors.
Sarah Harris, Assistant Professor of Engineering
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Interests: Computer architecture and digital systems
Joseph A. King, Professor of Engineering
Education: Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
Research Interests: materials science related phenomena with particular interest in the materials-environmental interactions.
Nancy Lape, Assistant Professor of Engineering
Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Research Interests: the relative importance of transport in shunts versus that in the stratum corneum for varying classes of drugs, potentially harmful chemicals, and bioagents, with the aim of developing and testing a model based on relevant dimensionless numbers.
Patrick Little, J. Stanley and Mary Wig Johnson Professor of Engineering Management and Director of Engineering Clinic
Education: Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: transportation, reliability and management of engineered systems.
John I. Molinder, James Howard Kindelberger Professor of Engineering
Education: Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Research Interests: communication systems and signal processing.
Elizabeth Cornelius Orwin, Assistant Professor of Engineering and Biology
Education: B.S., Harvey Mudd College; Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Research Interests: Tissue engineering, bioreactor design and soft tissue biomechanics
Donald S. Remer, Oliver C. Field Professor of Engineering
Education: Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Management including technical and project management, leadership styles, engineering economics and capital investment evaluation and cost estimation
R. Erik Spjut, Professor of Engineering
Education: Ph.D., Massachusettes Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Materials processing (especially containerless), process control, optical diagnostics and heat transfer (especially radiant)
B. Samuel Tanenbaum, Professor of Engineering and Dean of the Faculty Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Research Interests: application of lasers for diagnosis and treatment of medical problems, and analysis of issues related to energy and the environment
Ruye Wang, Professor of Engineering
Education: Ph.D., Rutgers University
Research Interests: image processing, pattern recognition, vision systems, data mining, remote sensing, neural computation and bioinformatics.
Qimin Yang, Assistant Professor of Engineering
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University
Research Interests: Optical packet switching, switching fabric architecture and optical CDMA
Humanities and Social Sciences
William Alves, Associate Professor of Music
Education: D.M.A., University of Southern California
Research Interests: Music composition, computer music, tuning systems, abstract animation, gamelan and other world music
Isabel Balseiro, Alexander and Adelaide Hixon Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature
Education: Ph.D., New York University
Research Interests: Contemporary writers and filmmakers from Africa and Latin America. Teaches on cultural and race studies, cinema and postcolonial literatures.
Hal S. Barron, Louisa and Robert Miller Professor of Humanities and Professor of Humanities
Education: M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: History of rural America; immigration and ethnicity; food and American culture
Tad Beckman, Professor Philosophy Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: History of Western philosophy, philosophy of science and environmental philosophy. Founder of the HMC Center for Environmental Studies.
Gary R. Evans, Professor of Economics
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
Research Interests: financial institutions and small business development, enterprise and entrepreneurship.
Jeffrey D. Groves, Professor of English and Chair
Education: Ph.D., The Claremont Graduate School
Research Interests: nineteenth-century American literature and publishing, the history of the book.
Charles W. Kamm, Assistant Professor of Music, Scripps College
Education: M.M.A., Yale University School of Music
Research Interests: Conductor of the Claremont Concert Choir and the Claremont Chamber Choir; professional vocal soloist and conductor; research on performance practices of renaissance and early Baroque music, 19th century nationalism in music and contemporary Scandinavian choral repertoire.
Mariane de Laet, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Science, Technology, and Society
Education: Ph.D., University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
Research Interests: Social study of knowledge-making practices, including laboratory studies, technology and knowledge transfer, and the role of play and games in knowing; management and organization of techno-scientific collaborations, including science and technology policy; social theory, including history and philosophy of the social sciences
Michael Deane Lamkin, Professor of Music in the Joint Music Program, Harvey Mudd College and Scripps College
Education: Ph.D., University of Iowa
Research Interests: Conducts the Claremont Concert Orchestra and research on performance practices of the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Central Europe. Artistic director and principal conductor of The Classical Music Festival, Eisenstadt, Austria. Concert performances in Eisenstadt, Vienna, Hungary, and Bratislava.
Debra Mashek, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Education: Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook
Research Interests: Psychology of close relationships, causes and consequences of feeling "too close" to intimate others, how jail inmates manage potentially competing allegiances to the criminal community and the community at large
Rachel Mayeri, Assistant Professor of Media Studies
Education: M.F.A., University of California, San Diego
Research Interests: contemporary art, media studies (especially film studies), cultural studies, science studies, video and new media production and installation.
Richard G. Olson, Professor of History, Willard W. Keith, Jr., Fellow in the Humanities
Education: B.S. Harvey Mudd College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Interests: Historical interactions between developments in the natural sciences and other cultural domains, especially religion and ideology; Scientistic and anti-scientific movements in the nineteenth century.
J'nan Morse Sellery, Louis and Robert Miller Professor Emerita of Humanities and Professor of Literature
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
Research Interests: Leader in The Claremont Colleges Women's Studies Program; conducts extensive research on women writers; with grants from HMC and others, she created and developed the Media Studio Program
Lisa M. Sullivan, Professor of Economics
Education: Ph.D., University of Toronto
Research Interests: Economic anthropology and economic history, specifically the comparative history of work and work ethics
Paul Steinberg, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Environmental Policy
Education: Ph.D., University of California Santa Cruz
Research Interests: Comparative and international environmental politics; environmental governance in developing countries; biodiversity; research methods
Christopher Tirres, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Interests: U.S. pragmatism, liberation theology, popular religion, critical theory, aesthetic theory, philosophy of education
Darryl Wright, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Interests: History of ethics; moral and political philosophy.
Mathematics
Arthur Benjamin, Professor of Mathematics
Education: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: Combinatorics, game theory, and number theory, with particular emphasis on combinatorial proofs and Fibonacci numbers
Andrew Bernoff, Professor of Mathematics
Education: Ph.D., Cambridge University
Research Interests: Fluid Mechanics including thin films, free surface problems, modelling of intermolecular forces, microfluidics and generation of micron-sized aerosols, mixing and advection/diffusion processes; material science, in particular continuum modelling and surface diffusion; mathematical methods, in particular dynamical systems, pattern formation self-similarity and scaling phenomena, and asymptotic methods.
Alfonso Castro, Kenneth and Diana Jonsson Professor of Mathematics
Education: Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
Research Interests: Existence, multiplicity and bifurcation of solutions to nonlinear partial differential equations, general applied mathematics
Lisette G. de Pillis, Professor of Mathematics
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests: Mathematical biology, cancer modeling, cancer immunotherapy modeling, optimal control, parallel computing, numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics and numerical linear algebra.
Weiqing Gu, Professor of Mathematics and Director, Mathematics Clinic
Education: M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Differential geometry and topology; geometrical modeling and design, applications to math-biology, applications to industrial mathematics (optimal control, encryption and color scheme)
Melvin Henriksen, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics.
Education: Ph.D, University of Wisconsin
Research Interests: ordered algebraic systems and general topology.
Jon Jacobsen, Critchell Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Education: Ph.D., University of Utah
Research Interests: Partial differential equations, dynamical systems, pattern formation, mathematical biology
Henry Krieger, Professor of Mathematics Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., Brown University
Research Interests: Probability theory and stochastic processes
Rachel Levy, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Education: Ph.D., North Carolina State University
Research Interests: Fluid dynamics of thin liquid films, with applications in biological systems. Applications include coating processes, surfactant replacement therapy for premature infants, liquid lining of the airways, and animal locomotion. Models are comprised of nonlinear systems of hyperbolic-parabolic partial differential equations.
Susan E. Martonosi, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Education: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Operations research techniques applied to problems in homeland security; other public sector applications of mathematical modeling.
Michael Orrison, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Education: Ph.D., Dartmouth College
Research Interests: Algebra, graph theory, voting theory, representation theory and computational noncommutative harmonic analysis
Nicholas Pippenger, Professor of Mathematics
Education: Ph.D., MIT
Research Interests: discrete mathematics, probability, applications to computation and communication.
Francis Su, Professor of Mathematics
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Interests: Geometric and topological combinatorics, fair division problems in game theory and mathematical economics.
Lesley Ward, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Research Interests: complex analysis, Fuchsian groups, quasiconformal maps, harmonic measure.
Alvin M. White, Professor of Mathematics Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Interests: partial differential equations, humanistic mathematics.
Darryl Yong, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Education: B.S., Harvey Mudd College; Ph.D., University of Washington
Research Interests: partial differential equations and asymptotics, mathematics education
Physics
Chih-Yung Chen, Associate Professor of Physics
Education: Ph.D., MIT
Research Interests: Solid-state physics, including electromagnetic and optical properties of high-temperature superconductors, semiconductors and magnetic materials.
Thomas Donnelly, Associate Professor of Physics and Associate Dean for Special Projects
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: experimental laser physics, including studies of laser-driven fusion and related microfluid aerosols, the generation of polymer nanoparticles and nonlinear optics
James C. Eckert, Professor of Physics
Education: Ph.D., University of Southern California
Research Interests:
Ann Esin, Assistant Professor of Physics
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Interests: astrophysics, including the study of accretion flows around neutron stars and black holes.
Richard C. Haskell, Burton Bettingen Professor of Physics
Education: Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: Biophysics and optics, including laser light scattering to study membranes and muscle; photon diffusion and optical coherence microscopy to image biological tissue
Thomas M. Helliwell, Professor of Physics Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Theoretical general relativity, relativistic astrophysics, and cosmology; the foundations of quantum theory
Theresa W. Lynn, Assistant Professor of Physics
Education: Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Atomic and optical physics, including quantum optics; observational study of ultra-high energy cosmic rays.
Gregory A. Lyzenga, Professor of Physics
Education: B.S., Harvey Mudd College; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Research Interests: geophysics, including observational study of crustal deformation and earthquakes using geodetic, seismological and gravimetric methods; computer simulation of tectonic processes.
Daniel C. Petersen, Professor of Physics
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Interests: biophysics, including physical properties of membranes and optical coherence microscopy.
Vatche Sahakian, Assistant Professor of Physics
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Interests: Theoretical particle physics, string theory, quantum gravity, cosmology.
Peter N. Saeta, Associate Professor of Physics
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Interests: Nonlinear optics and semiconductor physics, including surface and buried interface effects, metal surfaces and nanoparticles; magneto-optics
Patricia D. Sparks, Professor of Physics
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University
Research Interests: solid-state physics, including study of the optical and magnetic properties of metals and interfaces.
John S. Townsend, Susan and Bruce Worster Professor of Physics and Chair Education: Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: Theoretical particle physics and quantum field theory
Robert P. Wolf, Professor of Physics Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., Massachusettes Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Energy resources and environmental impacts; computer modeling; and nonlinear phenomena, including chaotic behavior.
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