Primary Position: Professor
Personal
Positions
Honors and Awards
- Born in Wilmington, Delaware
- B.A. Wellesley College, 1971
- Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976
Positions
- Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Sept. 1976 - Aug. 1979
- Research Associate, Rockefeller University, Sept. 1979 - Aug. 1980
- Assistant Professor, Rockefeller University, Sept. 1980 - Aug. 1982
- Associate Professor, Rockefeller University, Sept. 1982 - June 1990
- Lab Head, Rockefeller University, 1990
- Professor, Department of Astronomy and Physics, UNC-Chapel Hill, July 1990 -
Honors and Awards
- Phi Beta Kappa, 1969
- Sigma Xi, 1970
- Fulbright, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 1971
- Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1971
- Wellesley Alumnae Scholarship, 1971
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award 1987, American Physical Society
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1988
- Distinguished Young Alumnae Award, The Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvanina, 1992
- Wellesley Alumnae Achievement Award, Wellesley College, 2004
Theoretical particle physics, gauge theories, gravity, and string theory.
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box #3255, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255
Assistant: Shannon Mitchell, telephone 919-962-2078