Our Faculty and Staff

Faculty

Mark O. Battle

Norma L. and Roland G. Ware, Jr. Professor of Physics and Astronomy

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 Physics

Staff

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 Physics

Faculty Emeriti

Liz McCormack
Senior Vice President and Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Physics Emerita

James H. Turner