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Astronomy Faculty

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Graduate Faculty

Ronald L. Snell, Professor and Head of the Department of Astronomy and Five College Astronomy Program Chair, B.A., Kansas, 1973; M.A., Texas, 1975; Ph.D., 1979.

William M. Irvine, Professor and Graduate Program Director, B.A., Pomona College, 1957; M.A., Harvard, 1958; Ph.D., 1961.

Daniela Calzetti, Associate Professor, Laurea in Physics, Rome, Italy, 1987; Ph.D., 1992.

Melinda D. Dyar, Associate Professor (Mount Holyoke College).

Suzan Edwards, Professor (Smith College).

Neal R. Erickson, Research Professor, B.S., California Institute of Technology, 1970; Ph.D., California, at Berkeley, 1979.

Mauro Giavalisco, Associate Professor, M.S., Rome, Italy, 1987; Ph.D., 1992.

George S. Greenstein, Professor (Amherst College).

Salman Hameed, Assistant Professor, (Hampshire College).

Mark Heyer, Research Professor, B.S., Boston College, 1980; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1986.

Neal S. Katz, Professor, B.S., Michigan, 1984; Ph.D., Princeton, 1989.

John Kwan, Professor, B.S., Utah State, 1969; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1972.

James D. Lowenthal, Associate Professor, Smith College.

Houjun Mo, Professor, B.S., Anhui University, 1983; M.S., University of Science and Technology of China, 1986; Ph.D., Munich, 1991.

Gopal Narayanan, Research Assistant Professor, B.S., Anna University, India, 1989; M.S., California Institute of Technology, 1990; Ph.D., Arizona, 1997.

F. Peter Schloerb, Professor, B.A., Hamilton, 1973; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1978.

Stephen E. Schneider, Professor, B.S., Harvard, 1979; M.S., Cornell, 1982; Ph.D., 1985.

Todd M. Tripp, Associate Professor, B.S., Arizona, 1989; Ph.D., Wisconsin at Madison, 1997.

Daniel Q. Wang, Professor, M.S., Nanjing University, China, 1984; Ph.D., Columbia, 1990.

Martin D. Weinberg, Professor, B.S., Yale, 1979; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984.

Grant W. Wilson, Assistant Professor, B.S., Tufts, 1991; M.S., Brown; 1993; Ph.D., 1997.

Judith S. Young, Professor, B.A., Harvard, 1974; M.S., Minnesota, 1977; Ph.D., 1979.

Min S. Yun, Associate Professor, B.S., California Institute of Technology, 1986; M.S., Harvard, 1988; Ph.D., 1992.