Natural Sciences
Faculty in Natural Sciences
Briana Aguila-Ames, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Rebecca Black, Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry
Amy Elizabeth Bohan, Instructor of Biology
John Clark, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology
Amy Clore, Professor of Biology
Donald Colladay, Professor of Physics
Melissa Crow, Instructor of Statistics
Erika Díaz Almeyda, Assistant Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies (On Leave)
Kristopher Fennie, Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Jayne M. Gardiner, Associate Professor of Biology (On Leave)
Sandra Gilchrist, Professor of Biology and Marine Science/Natural Sciences Division Chair
David Gillman, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Fahmida Hamid, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Emily Heffernan, Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies/Associate Provost
Lin Jiang, Associate Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry
Bernhard Klingenberg, Professor of Statistics/Interim Director of Data Science
Christopher Kottke, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Elizabeth Leininger, Associate Professor of Biology (On Leave)
Samantha Levell, Visiting Assistant Professor in Fish Biology
Patrick McDonald, Professor of Mathematics/Vice Chair of the Faculty
Daniel Page, Visiting Assistant Professor in Computer Science
Christopher Pedersen, Associate in Physics
Tiago Perez, Assistant Professor of Data Science
Eirini Poimenidou, Professor of Mathematics (On Leave)
Tania Roy, Associate Professor of Human Centered Computing
George Ruppeiner, Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Tyrone Ryba, Associate Professor of Bioinformatics
Athena Rycyk, Associate Professor of Biology and Marine Science
Mariana Sendova, Professor of Physics
Vlad Serban, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Suzanne Sherman, Associate Professor of Chemistry (On Leave)
Steven Shipman, Professor of Physical Chemistry/Leonard Florsheim Chair (On Leave)
Andrey Skripnikov, Assistant Professor of Applied Statistics
Jose Soto-Schoender, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology and Ecology
Joel Thurmond, Senior Teaching Laboratory Specialist
Gerardo Toro-Farmer, Associate Professor of Coastal and Marine Science
Katherine Walstrom, Professor of Biochemistry
Lydia Wassink, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology and Ecology
Necmettin Yildirim, Professor of Mathematics/Soo Bong Chae Chair of Applied Mathematics
Requirements for the Divisional AOC in Natural Sciences
The Natural Sciences faculty have agreed that a student who earns "Natural Sciences" as an Area of Concentration should have a diverse enough background to be reasonably called a natural scientist and, at the same time, should have attained some level of mastery in one of the following disciplines: Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physics. These goals are normally achieved by meeting the following requirements:
- Satisfactory completion of at least six (6) introductory courses distributed among at least three Natural Sciences disciplines (chosen from Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physics). This usually involves the successful completion of the introductory sequence (two semester courses) in each of three disciplines.
- A minimum of an additional two semester courses beyond the introductory sequence in one discipline. The faculty will entertain requests for exceptions to these specific requirements as long as work of sufficient breadth and depth has been done in the division.
- At least one Independent Study Project in the Natural Sciences.
- A senior thesis in some area of the natural sciences is sponsored by a faculty member of the Natural Sciences Division.