Department of Physics and Astronomy
Rosa Tamara Branca
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Associate Professor
Alice Churukian
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Teaching Associate Professor
Louise Dolan
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Kenan Distinguished Professor
Adrienne Erickcek
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Assistant Professor
Julieta Gruszko
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Assistant Professor
Dr. Gruszko arrived at UNC Chapel Hill in January 2020 after spending 2 years as a Pappalardo Fellow at MIT. She completed her PhD as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Washington, and received her BS in physics and BA in mathematics from University of Rochester. As a visible and invisible minority in physics, she is deeply invested in efforts to improve diversity and climate in the field; she is currently working on these topics as part of the Physics Department’s diversity committee, where she leads the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion scholar program.

Christy Inscoe
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Research Assistant Professor
Sheila Kannappan
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Associate Professor
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Dr. Kannappan received her AB and PhD in Physics, as well as an MA in the History of Science, from Harvard. Prior to joining the faculty at UNC, she was a Harlan Smith postdoctoral fellow and an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics fellow at the University of Texas – Austin. She has been extensively involved in opening up access to science careers, including serving as a faculty advisor to the undergraduate Women In Physics Club, as co-chair of UNC’s Partnership with the American Physical Society Bridge Program, and as Director of the Computational Astronomy & Physics summer program. In between college and graduate school she was a 9th grade physical science teacher in Rocky Mount, North Carolina through the Teach for America program.

Laurie McNeil
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Bernard Gray Distinguished Professor
Former WOWS Scholar
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Throughout her career, she has worked to increase the participation and success of women in science (especially physics), notably through the “climate for women” site visit program of the American Physical Society. She has also led efforts to promote the use of research-based pedagogy in physics education, both in her own department and nationally. She has been recognized for her work in these areas with awards from UNC and from professional societies.

Laura Mersini-Houghton
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Professor
Amy Nicholson
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Assistant Professor
Amy Oldenburg
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Professor
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