KNAC Faculty

...including graduate school attended, title, and research specialties.

Colgate University
Thomas J. Balonek UMass Professor of Physics & Astronomy Variable stars; quasar variability; asteroids
Jeffrey Bary Vanderbilt Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy Pre-main sequence stars

Haverford College
Stephen P. Boughn Stanford Professor of Astronomy Large-scale structure in the X-ray background; cosmology; IR and optical searches for dark matter; gravitational radiation
Jorge Moreno U. Penn Visiting Assistant Professor of Astronomy Galaxy formation, dark matter haloes, supermassive black holes
R. Bruce Partridge Oxford Emeritus Professor of Astronomy Cosmology, the microwave background, and radio studies of galaxies
Beth Willman Washington Assistant Professor of Astronomy
Dwarf galaxies, observational and computational near-field cosmology

Middlebury College
Stephen Ratcliff Princeton Professor of Physics Variable stars; stellar spectroscopy; instrumentation
P. Frank Winkler Harvard Professor of Physics Optical and X-ray observations of supernova remnants
Richard Wolfson Dartmouth Professor of Physics
The solar corona and coronal mass ejections

Swarthmore College
David Cohen Wisconsin Associate Professor of Astronomy Modeling and X-ray observations of winds from massive stars; X-rays from young stars; laboratory astrophysics
Eric Jensen Wisconsin Associate Professor of Astronomy Formation of planets; young stars in binary systems
Mary Ann Klassen Wyoming Laboratory Lecturer in Physics
and Astronomy		  

Vassar College
Fred Chromey Harvard Professor of Astronomy; Observatory Director Structure and history of nearby galaxies
Debra Elmegreen Harvard Maria Mitchell Professor of Astronomy Star formation; structure of spiral and interacting galaxies
Allyson Sheffield Virginia Visiting Assistant Professor Galactic structure and stellar populations

Wellesley College
Wendy Hagen Bauer Hawaii Professor of Astronomy Atmospheric eclipsing binary stars; variable stars
Richard French Cornell Professor of Astronomy, Department Chair &
Observatory Director
Planetary astronomy (in particular Saturn)
Kim McLeod Arizona Associate Professor of Astronomy Quasar host galaxies; observational extrasolar planet searches
Steve Slivan MIT Visiting Assistant Professor
Koronis family asteroids

Wesleyan University
Dana Casetti Yale Visiting Assistant Professor Galactic structure and formation, Galactic kinematics, astrometry
Bill Herbst Toronto John Monroe Van Vleck Professor
of Astronomy, Department Chair		 Sellar formation; photometry; rotation; accretion disks
Roy Kilgard Leicester Assistant Astronomer X-ray source populations in galaxies; statistical challenges in X-ray astronomy
Ed Moran Columbia Assistant Professor of Astronomy X-ray Astronomy; X-ray background radiation
Seth Redfield Colorado Assistant Professor of Astronomy UV and optical spectroscopy; local ISM; exoplanets

Williams College
Bryce Babcock Michigan Staff Physicist Solar corona studies at total eclipses; stellar occultations by outer solar-system objects
Karen B. Kwitter UCLA Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Astronomy;
Department Chair		 Planetary nebulae, interstellar medium, spectroscopy, evolution of intermediate-mass stars

Jay M. Pasachoff Harvard Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy; Observatory Director Solar corona as studied at total eclipses; solar chromosphere; interstellar deuterium and its implications for cosmology; occultations by Pluto and other outer solar-system objects

Steven P. Souza Stony Brook Observatory Supervisor
& Instructor		 Cold interstellar clouds; biomedical imaging; occultations by Pluto and other outer solar-system objects


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