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Physics expands by five profs

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, September 6, 2006

The Physics Department saw more growth in the last hiring cycle than any other department in Yale College, after five professors accepted offers to join its faculty last year.

The new professors — four of whom were rewarded tenure — will expand the department’s course offerings for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in fields on the “cutting edge” of physics research, department chair Ramamurti Shankar said. The new hires include the fourth female professor in the more than 40-member department as well as the first African-American to be tenured in physics at the...

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