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As of fall 2014, there were about 36 faculty members and 100 graduate students. The Department of Physics and Astronomy offers both Ph.D and master's degrees in physics, as well as an interdisciplinary degree in chemical and material physics. The Department of Earth System Science offers a Ph.D. degree program in earth system science.
David Alan Heslop was the first director of the Rose Institute, serving from 1973 to 2000. Professor Heslop was a member of the CMC Government Department, holding the Don and Edessa Rose Chair of State and Local Government and is the author of books and articles on an array of subjects, primarily in the area of electoral politics. [9]
The average UCI undergraduate takes four courses, or 16 units. Courses offered are usually worth between 1 and 5 quarter units. Summer courses are offered in either the quarter format of 11 weeks or two summer sessions of roughly half the time for a standard quarter.
The Summer Science Program (SSP) is an academic summer program where high school students experience college-level education and do research in celestial mechanics by studying the orbits of asteroids, biochemistry by studying the kinetic properties of enzymes, genomics by studying antibiotic resistance, or synthetic chemistry by studying macrocyclic catalysts.
Lee De Forest, one of "the fathers of the electronic age" and the man who brought sound to motion pictures was an IIT physics faculty member. The world's first radio astronomer, Grote Reber, is an IIT alum. Watts Humphrey, "Father of software quality", earned a Masters in physics from IIT.
The Princeton University Department of Physics is an academic department dedicated to research and teaching at Princeton University.The associated faculty members, researchers, and students have been recognized for their research contributions, having been awarded 19 Nobel Prizes, four National Medals of Science, and two Wolf Prizes in Physics.
The Berkeley course was contemporary with The Feynman Lectures on Physics (a college course at a similar mathematical level), and PSSC Physics (a high school introductory course). These physics courses were all developed in the atmosphere of urgency about science education created in the West by Sputnik.
CSSSA faculty is composed of professional artists and arts educators who specialize in the artistic disciplines taught at the program. Faculty members are selected on the basis of artistic excellence in their art forms as well as their teaching abilities. Housing for the faculty is located on the east side of the campus in Ahmanson Hall. [7]