Faculty, Staff, Students

Faculty in the Physics and Astronomy Department


Dr. A. Kilpatrick	Dr. A. Petridis	Dr. L. Staunton	Dr. K. Bartschat	Dr. C. Nelson	Dr. R. Lutz

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The department chairperson is Dr. Charles Nelson and can be reached at charles.nelson@drake.edu.

Staff in the Physics and Astronomy Department

Morris Mason (physics lab instructor)
Donald Hey (physics lab instructor)
Lauren Breman (astronomy lab instructor)
Herbert Schwartz (observatory instructor)
Marie Fisher (secretary)

Marie Fisher Morris Mason

Donald Hey Lauren Breman

Visiting Scientists in Physics and Astronomy

Dr. Oleg Zatsarinny (atomic physics)
Dr. Xiaoxu Guan (atomic physics)

Physics and Astronomy Students

Drake has a local chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS), and an honor society, Sigma Pi Sigma. The current SPS-president is Daniel Weflen (dcw002@drake.edu).

Students enjoying a class on Electromagnetic Theory

Physics and Astronomy make students happy

Physics and Astronomy students working in a team

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Marie Fisher	Morris Mason

Donald Hey	Lauren Breman