Sciences,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1984 - 1991.
Postdoctoral Associate and IBM Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, 1983- 1984.
Honors and awards
George B. Pegram Medal, Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society
Fellow, American Physical Society
Chapman Family Faculty Fellow and Academic Leadership Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC-CH
William F. Little Award, UNC-CH, 2011
University Award for the Advancement of Women, UNC-CH, 2010
Mary Turner Lane Award, UNC-CH Association of Women Faculty and Professionals 2009
WOWS (Working On Women in Science) Scholar, UNC-CH 2007 - 2009
Dorothy Daspit Lectureship in Science, H. Sophie Newcomb College Institute, Tulane Univ. 2007 (first recipient)
Lecturer, AAAS Latin American Series on Women in Science and Engineering, 2004
Kathryn A. McCarthy Lectureship in Physics, Tufts University, 2000 (first recipient)
Member, Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars, UNC-CH
Bowman and Gordon Gray Professorship, UNC-CH 1996 - 1998
Selected recent professional activities
Deputy Editor, Journal of Applied Physics
Member, Operational Resource Group, Statistical Research Center, American Institute of Physics, 2013 - present
Chair, Physics Advisory Board, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Co-Chair, APS/AAPT Joint Task Force on Undergraduate Physics Programs (J-TUPP) 2014-2018
Member, Cottrell Scholar Selection Committee, Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement
APS/CSWP "Climate for Women" Site Visit Program 1994 - present
Current research interests
- Structure-property relations in semiconductors
- Optical spectroscopy of organic semiconductors
- Brillouin scattering in semiconductors, insulators and biological materials
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