The first woman faculty member in science at Rensselaer, was recognized as outstanding and gifted teacher who inspired many undergraduates to go on to graduate school.
'The discovery of pulsars - a graduate student's tale' (Contact Dr. Esther Wertz, 518-276-2674)
Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell
from University of Oxford
“The light years: Nanophotonic methods to visualize dynamic chemical and cellular processes with near-atomic-scale resolution”
Jennifer Dionne
from Stanford University
"DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life"
Ned Seeman, New York University
“Laser Doppler Methods in Health Science and Medicine”
David Boas ('91)
from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
“The Quark Gluon Plasma and the Origins of Matter Physics at TeraKelvin Temperatures”
Thomas Ludlam '63, Brookhaven National Laboratory
“Einstein’s Mistakes”
Hans Ohanian, Physics Department, University of Vermont
"Band Gap Materials: A New Frontier in Modern Optics"
Marian Florescu, Physics Department, Princeton University
“How to start a High-Tech Business”
Ivar Giaever '64, Nobel Laureate, President, Applied Biophysics, Troy, NY
"The New Astronomy: X-Rays from the Heart of the Universe"
Edwin Kellogg, Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
"Measuring this Particular Elegant Universe”
Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University
"Black Holes & Thermodynamics"
Jennie Traschen, Physics Department, University of Massachusetts
"Slowing Down the Speed of Light”
Robert W. Boyd, M. Parker Givens Professor of Optics and Professor of Physics, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester
"Re-creating the Origins of Matter in the Universe: Hunting the Quark Gluon Plasma"
Thomas W. Ludlam '63, Brookhaven National Laboratory
“Adventures in Silicon Etching: From Atomic Scale Physics to the Control of Micromechanical Losses”
Melissa Hines, Cornell University
