
Our Faculty and Staff
Faculty


Thomas W. Baumgarte
William R. Kenan Professor of Physics, Chair of Physics Department
Felicia McBride
Assistant Professor of Physics, on leave for the 2025–2026 academic year
Elizabeth McCormack
Senior Vice President and Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Physics Emerita
Madeleine Msall
Josiah Little Professor of Natural Science
Stephen G. Naculich
LaCasce Family Professor of Natural Sciences
Alec Petersen
Visiting Assistant Professor of Earth and Oceanographic Science and Physics
Dale A. Syphers
Professor of Physics
Karen A. Topp
Senior Lecturer in PhysicsStaff

Kenneth A. Dennison
Laboratory Instructor in Physics
Emily Briley Green
Academic Department Coordinator for Physics and Astronomy
Ben King
Machinist
Dana Peirce
Laboratory Instructor in Physics
Mileidy Varela-Madera
Laboratory Instructor in PhysicsFaculty Emeriti
Liz McCormackSenior Vice President and Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Physics Emerita