Dolan, Louise A.

Dolan, Louise A.
Kenan Distinguished Professor

Contact

Office: Room 294, Phillips Hall
Email: ldolan at physics
Phone: (919) 962-7168
Web page: https://physics.unc.edu/research-pages/gravity-cosmology-high-energy-physics-string-theory/

Background

Personal

• Born in Wilmington, Delaware
• B.A. Wellesley College, 1971
• Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976

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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 –
• University Distinguished Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill

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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

Research

Theoretical particle physics, gauge theories, gravity, and string theory.

Publications

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