Sep 26, 2008 - Claremont, Calif. - Beyond their academic excellence, the group brings an array of diverse interests and hobbies, certain to fit right in with HMC’s eclectic group of students and faculty. Talithia Williams, who joins the Department of Mathematics as an assistant professor, comes to HMC from Rice University. She earned her Ph.D. in statistics in 2007, and has worked for the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston and the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Md. In addition to the four new tenure-track faculty, Zuoyue Wang joins the HMC faculty as the Hixon-Riggs Visiting Professor of Science, Technology, and Society. He received his Ph.D. in history of science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1994. Wang is a professor in Cal Poly Pomona’s history department and was previously a visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, Santa Barbara. Wang’s most recent book, In Sputnik’s Shadow: The President’s Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America, was published by Rutgers University Press (2008)
The new faculty members are:
Adam Edwards joins the Department of Physics as an assistant professor. He earned his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University in 2007, and held a postdoctoral position at Pomona College last year. Edwards received a Schering-Plough Fellowship in 2004, the H&C Dibble Scholarship in 2000 and an Energy Research Undergraduate Laboratory Fellowship in 1999.
Dagan Karp joins the Department of Mathematics as an assistant professor. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in 2005, and most recently taught at the University of California, Berkeley.
Chang Tan joins the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences as an assistant professor in Chinese language and culture. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in comparative literature in 2008.
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