College of Natural Sciences

Department of Astronomy

Donald E. Winget, Chair

Professors Emeritus

James N. Douglas, Professor Emeritus

BS, Yale, 1956; MS, 1958; PhD, 1961

William H. Jefferys III, Professor Emeritus

BA, Wesleyan, 1962; MS, Yale, 1964; PhD, 1965

R. Edward Nather, Professor Emeritus

BA, Whitman College, 1947; PhD, Cape Town, 1972

Professors, Instructors, and Senior Lecturers

Frank N. Bash, Professor

BA, Willamette, 1959; MA, Harvard, 1962; PhD, Virginia, 1967

Volker Bromm, Assistant Professor

BS, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 1989; MS, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 1993; PhD, Yale, 2000

Harriet L. Dinerstein, Professor

BS, Yale, 1975; PhD, California (Santa Cruz), 1980

Neal J. Evans II, Professor

BA, California (Berkeley), 1968; PhD, 1973

Karl Gebhardt, Associate Professor

BS, Rochester, 1986; MS, Michigan State (East Lansing), 1990; PhD, Rutgers (New Brunswick), 1994

Paul M. Harvey, Professor

BA, Wesleyan, 1968; PhD, California Institute of Technology, 1973

Mary M. Hemenway, Senior Lecturer

BS, Notre Dame College (Ohio), 1965; MA, Virginia, 1967; PhD, 1971

Daniel T. Jaffe, Professor

BA, Harvard, 1975; MA, 1978; PhD, 1981

Shardha Jogee, Assistant Professor

BA, Cambridge, 1992; MPhil, MS, Yale, 1994; MA, Cambridge, 1995; PhD, Yale, 1999

Eiichiro Komatsu, Assistant Professor

BS, Tohoku Daigaku, 1997; MS, 1999; PhD, 2001

John Kormendy, Professor

BS, Toronto, 1970; PhD, California Institute of Technology, 1976

Pawan Kumar, Professor

BS, Gorakhpur, 1976; MTech, Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur), 1980; PhD, California Institute of Technology, 1988

John H. Lacy, Professor

BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972; PhD, California (Berkeley), 1979

David L. Lambert, Professor

BA, Oxford, 1960; PhD, 1965

Edward L. Robinson, Professor

BA, Arizona, 1969; PhD, Texas (Austin), 1973

John M. Scalo, Professor

BS, Southern California, 1969; MA, California (Los Angeles), 1972; PhD, 1973

Paul R. Shapiro, Professor

BA, Harvard, 1974; PhD, 1978

Gregory Alan Shields, Professor

BS, Stanford, 1968; MS, California Institute of Technology, 1969; PhD, 1972

Christopher A. Sneden, Professor

BA, Haverford College, 1969; PhD, Texas (Austin), 1973

Steven Weinberg, Regental Professor

BA, Cornell, 1954; PhD, Princeton, 1957

J. Craig Wheeler, Distinguished Teaching Professor

BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965; PhD, Colorado (Boulder), 1969

Derek Wills, Professor

BSc, ARCS, London, 1963; PhD, Cambridge, 1966

Donald E. Winget, Professor

BS, Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), 1976; MA, Rochester, 1978; PhD, 1982

Adjunct Professors

Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Adjunct Professor

BS, Stanford, 1974; PhD, California (Santa Cruz), 1980

School of Biological Sciences

Henry R. Bose Jr., Director

Professors Emeritus

John Julius Biesele, Professor Emeritus

BA, Texas, 1939; PhD, 1942

Theodore Delevoryas, Professor Emeritus

BS, Massachusetts, 1950; MS, Illinois, 1951; PhD, 1954

Hugh S. Forrest, Professor Emeritus

BS, Glasgow, 1944; PhD, London, 1947; PhD, Cambridge, 1951; DSc, London, 1971

Gary Freeman, Professor Emeritus

BS, Chicago, 1960; PhD, 1964

Verne E. Grant, Professor Emeritus

BA, California (Berkeley), 1940; PhD, 1949

Clark Hubbs, Professor Emeritus

BA, Michigan, 1942; PhD, Stanford, 1951

Antone G. Jacobson, Professor Emeritus

BA, Harvard, 1951; PhD, Stanford, 1955

Marshall C. Johnston, Professor Emeritus

BSGeo, Texas, 1951; MA, 1952; PhD, 1955

James L. Larimer, Professor Emeritus

BS, East Tennessee State College, 1953; MA, Virginia, 1954; PhD, Duke, 1959

Tom J. Mabry, Professor Emeritus

BS, MS, East Texas State, 1953; PhD, Rice Institute, 1960

Bassett Maguire Jr., Professor Emeritus

BA, Cornell, 1953; PhD, 1957

Marjorie P. Maguire, Professor Emeritus

BS, Cornell, 1947; PhD, 1952

Jack Edgar Myers, Professor Emeritus

BS, Juniata College, 1934; MS, Montana State College, 1935; PhD, Minnesota, 1939

Edward L. Powers, Professor Emeritus

BS, College of Charleston, 1938; PhD, Johns Hopkins, 1941

H. Eldon Sutton, Ashbel Smith Professor Emeritus

BSCh, Texas, 1948; MA, 1949; PhD, 1953

Guy A. Thompson Jr., Professor Emeritus

BS, Mississippi State, 1953; PhD, California Institute of Technology, 1959

Billie Lee Turner, Professor Emeritus

BS, Sul Ross State College, 1949; MS, Southern Methodist, 1950; PhD, State College of Washington, 1953

Marshall Ralph Wheeler, Professor Emeritus

BA, Baylor, 1939; PhD, Texas, 1947

Professors, Instructors, and Senior Lecturers

John J. Abbott, Senior Lecturer

BS, Texas A&M (College Station), 1993; MS, North Texas, 1998; PhD, 1999

Seema Agarwala, Assistant Professor

BS, Calcutta, 1983; PhD, State University of New York (Stony Brook), 1990

Karen Artzt, Ashbel Smith Professor

BA, Cornell, 1964; PhD, 1972

Nigel S. Atkinson, Associate Professor

BS, Texas A&M, 1979; PhD, Pennsylvania State (Hershey Medical Center), 1986

Susan Bergeson, Assistant Professor

BS, North Dakota, 1991; PhD, Oregon Health Sciences, 1997

George D. Bittner, Professor

BA, Duke, 1962; PhD, Stanford, 1967

Daniel I. Bolnick, Assistant Professor

BA, Williams College, 1996; PhD, California (Davis), 2003

Henry R. Bose Jr., Professor

BS, Elmhurst College, 1962; MS, Indiana, 1965; PhD, 1967

Jerry J. Brand, Professor

BS, Manchester College, 1963; PhD, Purdue, 1971

Creagh Breuner, Assistant Professor

BA, Washington (Seattle), 1991; PhD, 1998

Frank H. Bronson, Professor

BS, Kansas State, 1956; MS, 1957; PhD, Pennsylvania State, 1961

R. Malcolm Brown Jr., Professor

BA, Texas, 1961; PhD, 1964

Jim Bull, Professor

BS, Texas Tech, 1971; PhD, Utah, 1977

Ruth E. Buskirk, Senior Lecturer

BA, Earlham College, 1965; MAT, Harvard, 1966; PhD, California (Davis), 1972

David Cannatella, Associate Professor

BS, Southwestern Louisiana, 1976; MA, Kansas, 1979; MPh, 1981; PhD, 1985

Clarence S. M. Chan, Associate Professor

BA, Vassar College, 1977; PhD, Cornell, 1985

Zengjian J. Chen, Associate Professor

BS, Zhejiang Agricultural University, 1984; MA, Nanjing Agricultural University, 1987; PhD, Texas A&M (College Station), 1993

David P. Crews, Ashbel Smith Professor

BA, Maryland (College Park), 1969; PhD, Rutgers (Newark), 1973

Molly E. Cummings, Assistant Professor

BA, Stanford, 1990; Post-Graduate Diploma, James Cook University of North Queensland, 1993; PhD, California (Santa Barbara), 2001

Arturo De Lozanne, Associate Professor

BE, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 1982; PhD, Stanford, 1988

Jaquelin P. Dudley, Professor

BS, West Virginia, 1973; PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, 1978

Charles F. Earhart Jr., Professor

BA, Knox College, 1962; PhD, Purdue, 1967

Judith L. Edmiston, Senior Lecturer

BA, Texas (Austin), 1968; PhD, 1975

Leanne H. Field, Senior Lecturer

BA, Florida State, 1972; MS, Georgia, 1974; PhD, Texas (Austin), 1987

Janice Fischer, Associate Professor

BS, Union College, 1981; PhD, Harvard, 1987

Norma L. Fowler, Professor

BA, Chicago, 1973; PhD, Duke, 1978

Lee A. Fuiman, Professor

BS, Long Island (Southampton), 1975; MS, Cornell, 1978; PhD, Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1983

George Georgiou, Professor

BSChE, Manchester, 1981; MSChE, Cornell, 1983; PhD, 1986

Lawrence E. Gilbert, Professor

BA, Texas, 1966; PhD, Stanford, 1971

Nace L. Golding, Assistant Professor

BS, Connecticut, 1989; PhD, Wisconsin (Madison), 1996

Ellen Gottlieb, Assistant Professor

AB, Smith College, 1978; PhD, Yale, 1987

Jeffrey M. Gross, Assistant Professor

BS, Maryland (Baltimore), 1996; PhD, Duke, 2002

Robin Gutell, Associate Professor

BA, California (San Diego), 1977; PhD, California (Santa Cruz), 1984

David W. Hall, Senior Lecturer

BA, Rice, 1986; PhD, Duke, 1995

Adron Harris, Professor

BS, New Mexico State, 1967; MS, Arizona, 1970; PhD, North Carolina (Chapel Hill), 1973

Rasika M. Harshey, Professor

BSc, Banaras Hindu, 1970; MSc, Nagpur, 1972; PhD, Indian Institute of Science, 1977

Christine V. Hawkes, Assistant Professor

BA, Bucknell, 1993; PhD, Pennsylvania, 2000

David L. Herrin, Professor

BS, Miami (Florida), 1977; PhD, South Florida, 1985

David M. Hillis, Professor

BS, Baylor, 1980; MA, Kansas, 1983; MPh, 1984; PhD, 1985

Johann Hofmann, Assistant Professor

MS, Universität Tübingen, 1993; PhD, Universität Leipzig, 1997

Jon M. Huibregtse, Associate Professor

BS, Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1983; PhD, 1989

Alexander C. Huk, Assistant Professor

BA, Swarthmore College, 1996; PhD, Stanford, 2001

Enamul Huq, Assistant Professor

BS, Dhaka, 1987; MS, 1988; PhD, Purdue, 1997

Vishwanath R. Iyer, Assistant Professor

BS, Bombay, 1987; MS, Baroda, 1989; PhD, Harvard, 1996

Robert K. Jansen, Professor

BS, Wisconsin (Oshkosh), 1976; PhD, Ohio State (Columbus), 1982

Makkuni Jayaram, Professor

BSc, Kerala, 1969; MSc, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, 1971; PhD, Indian Institute of Science, 1977

Arlen W. Johnson, Associate Professor

BA, California (Santa Cruz), 1982; PhD, Harvard, 1989

Daniel Johnston, Professor

BS, Virginia, 1970; PhD, Duke, 1974

Thomas E. Juenger, Assistant Professor

BS, Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), 1991; PhD, Chicago, 1999

Klaus Kalthoff, Professor

Philosophicum, Universität Hamburg, 1964; Staatsexamen, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im. Breisgau, 1967; Dr.rer.nat., 1971

Timothy H. Keitt, Assistant Professor

BA, Florida, 1987; MS, 1992; PhD, New Mexico, 1995

Mark Kirkpatrick, Professor

BA, Harvard, 1978; PhD, Washington (Seattle), 1983

Helmut J. Koester, Assistant Professor

BS, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 1995; PhD, Max-Planck-Institut für Medizinische Forschung, 1999

Robert Krug, Professor

MA, Harvard, 1961; PhD, Rockefeller, 1966

Elizabeth W. Kuziel, Senior Lecturer

AB, Barnard College, 1977; AM, Duke, 1979; PhD, Texas (Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas), 1988

John W. La Claire II, Professor

BS, Cornell, 1973; MA, South Florida, 1975; PhD, California (Berkeley), 1979

Jeanne M. Lagowski, Professor

BS, Bradley, 1951; MS, 1952; PhD, Michigan, 1957

Alan M. Lambowitz, Professor

BS, Brooklyn College, 1968; PhD, Yale, 1972

Mathew A. Leibold, Professor

BS, Arizona, 1980; MS, 1981; PhD, Michigan State, 1988

Donald A. Levin, Professor

BS, Illinois, 1960; MS, 1962; PhD, 1964

Craig Randal Linder, Associate Professor

BA, St. John's College, 1982; MS, Cornell, 1987; PhD, Brown, 1994

Marcy E. Litvak, Assistant Professor

BA, Colorado College, 1989; PhD, Colorado (Denver), 1997

Alan Martin Lloyd, Associate Professor

BA, Washington (St. Louis), 1979; PhD, Stanford, 1993

Paul MacDonald, Professor

BS, Colorado State, 1978; MS, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1980; PhD, Vanderbilt, 1983

James D. Mauseth, Professor

BS, Washington (Seattle), 1970; PhD, 1975

Mona Mehdy, Associate Professor

BA, California (Berkeley), 1977; PhD, California (San Diego), 1984

Richard J. Meyer, Professor

BA, Swarthmore College, 1967; PhD, Pennsylvania, 1972

Lauren A. Meyers, Assistant Professor

BA, Harvard, 1996; PhD, Stanford, 2000

John Mihic, Associate Professor

BS, Toronto, 1984; MS, 1988; PhD, 1992

Ian J. Molineux, Professor

BS, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1966; PhD, Oxford, 1969

Hitoshi Morikawa, Assistant Professor

MD, Kyoto Daigaku, 1989; PhD, 1999

Ulrich G. Mueller, Associate Professor

MS, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 1984; MA, Cornell, 1986; PhD, 1992

Raymond L. Neubauer, Senior Lecturer

BA, Dartmouth College, 1964; MA, Chicago, 1966; PhD, Texas (Austin), 1993

Theresa O'Halloran, Associate Professor

BA, Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1978; PhD, North Carolina (Chapel Hill), 1986

Julie Palmer, Senior Lecturer

BA, North Carolina, 1977; MS, Utah State, 1981; PhD, Texas (Austin), 1989

José L. Panero, Associate Professor

BA, Miami, 1984; MS, Tennessee (Knoxville), 1986; PhD, 1990

Camille Parmesan, Assistant Professor

BSZoo, Texas (Austin), 1984; PhD, 1995

Tanya T. Paull, Assistant Professor

BS, MS, Stanford, 1991; PhD, California (Los Angeles), 1996

Shelley M. Payne, Distinguished Teaching Professor

BA, Rice, 1972; PhD, Texas Health Science Center (Dallas), 1977

Eric R. Pianka, Professor

BA, Carleton College, 1960; PhD, Washington (Seattle), 1965

Martin Poenie, Associate Professor

BA, California State (Northridge), 1973; MA, California State (Fullerton), 1979; PhD, Stanford, 1986

George D. Pollak, Professor

BS, American, 1964; PhD, Maryland, 1970

Mary Ann Rankin, Professor

BS, Louisiana State (New Orleans), 1966; PhD, Iowa, 1972

R. H. (Dick) Richardson, Professor

BS, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 1959; MS, North Carolina State, 1962; PhD, 1965

Austen Fox Riggs II, Professor

BA, Harvard, 1948; MA, 1949; PhD, 1951

Mendell Rimer, Assistant Professor

Lic, Universidad de Los Andes, 1986; PhD, Maryland (Baltimore), 1993

Stanley J. Roux Jr., Distinguished Teaching Professor

BS, Spring Hill College, 1966; MS, Loyola (New Orleans), 1968; PhD, Yale, 1971

Michael J. Ryan, Professor

BA, Glassboro State College, 1975; MS, Rutgers (Newark), 1977; PhD, Cornell, 1982

Bob G. Sanders, Professor

BS, Concord College, 1954; MA, Pennsylvania State, 1958; PhD, 1961

Sahotra Sarkar, Professor

BA, Columbia, 1981; MA, Chicago, 1984; PhD, 1989

K. Sathasivan, Senior Lecturer

BS, Tamil Nada Agricultural, 1978; MS, 1980; PhD, Louisiana State (Baton Rouge), 1991

Martin Shankland, Distinguished Teaching Professor

AB, Cornell, 1975; PhD, California (Berkeley), 1981

Dee U. Silverthorn, Senior Lecturer

BS, Tulane, 1970; PhD, South Carolina (Columbia), 1973

Beryl B. Simpson, Professor

BA, Radcliffe College, 1964; MA, PhD, Harvard, 1967

Michael C. Singer, Professor

BA, Oxford, 1967; PhD, Stanford, 1971

John C. Sisson, Assistant Professor

BS, California (San Diego), 1986; PhD, Stanford, 1996

James K. Skipper, Senior Lecturer

BS, Georgia, 1966; MS, 1969; PhD, 1972

David Stein, Associate Professor

BS, Winnipeg, 1982; PhD, Stanford, 1989

Scott W. Stevens, Assistant Professor

BS, Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), 1991; PhD, North Carolina (Chapel Hill), 1996

Paul J. Szaniszlo, Professor

BA, Ohio Wesleyan, 1961; MA, North Carolina (Chapel Hill), 1964; PhD, 1967

Edward C. Theriot, Professor

MS, Louisiana State, 1978; PhD, Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1983

Peter Thomas, Professor

BS, Hull, 1970; PhD, Leicester, 1977

Wesley J. Thompson, Professor

BS, North Texas State, 1970; PhD, California (Berkeley), 1975

Ming Tian, Assistant Professor

BS, Peking, 1987; PhD, Harvard, 1994

Philip W. Tucker, Professor

BA, Texas (Austin), 1966; MA, 1969; PhD, Texas A&M, 1974

James R. Walker, Professor

BS, Northwestern State College, 1960; PhD, Texas, 1963

John B. Wallingford, Assistant Professor

BA, Wesleyan, 1992; PhD, Texas (Austin), 1998

Claus O. Wilke, Assistant Professor

Diploma, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 1996; PhD, 1999

Harold H. Zakon, Professor

BS, Marlboro College, 1972; PhD, Cornell, 1981

Bing Zhang, Assistant Professor

BS, Northwestern University of Agriculture (China), 1983; PhD, Cornell, 1995

Adjunct Professors

Suzanne S. Barth, Adjunct Associate Professor

BA, Texas (Austin), 1969; PhD, 1983

Ernest Arthur Bell, Adjunct Professor

BS, King's College (Newcastle upon Tyne), 1946; MA, Trinity College (Dublin), 1950; PhD, 1953

Guy L. Bush, Adjunct Professor

BS, Iowa State, 1953; MS, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1960; PhD, Harvard, 1964

Richard A. Dixon, Adjunct Professor

BA, Oxford, 1973; PhD, 1976

Janet Duben-Engelkirk, Adjunct Associate Professor

BS, Akron, 1974; BS, 1975; MS, 1979; EdD, Baylor College of Medicine/Houston (University Park), 1988

Greta A. Fryxell, Adjunct Professor

BA, Augustana College (Illinois), 1948; MEd, Texas A&M, 1969; PhD, 1975

Paul A. Fryxell, Adjunct Professor

BA, Augustana College (Illinois), 1949; MS, Iowa State, 1951; PhD, 1955

Carl Gans, Adjunct Professor

BME, New York, 1944; MS, Columbia, 1950; PhD, Harvard, 1957

James L. Harris, Adjunct Associate Professor

BA, Texas, 1965; MS, Texas A&M, 1968; PhD, 1972

Robert Jackson, Adjunct Professor

BS, Rice, 1983; MS, Utah State, 1989; MS, PhD, 1992

Judy Jobe, Adjunct Assistant Professor

BS, Lamar, 1967

David G. Johnson, Adjunct Associate Professor

BA, Texas (Austin), 1985; PhD, Texas (Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas), 1991

Daniel J. Ladd, Adjunct Associate Professor

BES, Johns Hopkins, 1962; MSE, 1968; MD, Maryland, 1969

Judith D. Larsen, Adjunct Assistant Professor

BS, Wisconsin, 1962

Christophe Leveque, Adjunct Assistant Professor

BS, Tulane, 1975; MD, Louisiana State (Medical Center), 1981

Guosong Liu, Adjunct Professor

MA, Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1982; MD, Chuanbei Medical School, 1982; PhD, California (Los Angeles), 1990

Karen R. McClure, Adjunct Assistant Professor

BS, Texas A&M, 1978; BSMedTech, Texas Health Science Center (Houston), 1979; MS, Texas Woman's, 1998

Susan J. Pacinda, Adjunct Assistant Professor

BS, Texas A&M (College Station), 1988; MD, Texas Health Science Center (Houston), 1992

Ingo Schlupp, Adjunct Professor

Diplom, Universität Hamburg, 1991; PhD, 1995

Dennis R. Schneider, Adjunct Associate Professor

BA, Texas (Austin), 1973; PhD, 1978

Jeffrey J. Tarrand, Adjunct Assistant Professor

BS, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1975; MS, 1977; MD, Virginia, 1981

Matthew Morris Winkler, Adjunct Professor

BS, California (Berkeley), 1974; PhD, 1979

This chapter lists faculty appointments for the spring semester 2005-2006; the directors and department chairs listed here also served in that semester.