Each SSP campus is staffed with an Academic Director and an Associate Academic Director (professional scientists and/or educators), a Site Director, and four teaching assistants. Many of the faculty are themselves SSP alumni. The faculty reside on the campus with the participants and are available at all hours to mentor, tutor, and discuss academic, scientific, residential and personal matters.

California Campus

		Dr. Ran Sivron - Academic Director Assoc. Prof. of Physics, Baker University Ph.D. Physics and Astrophysics, Montana State Univ, 1995 B.A. Physics, Technion, 1987
		Prof. Martin Mason - Associate Academic Director Prof. of Physics, Mt. San Antonio College M.S. Physics, UC Riverside, 1997 B.S. Physics & Applied Math, UC Riverside
		Barbara Martinez - Site Director Math teacher, Socorro Consolidated Schools, Socorro, NM M.S. Science Teaching, New Mexico Tech, 2006 B.A. Elementary Education, Univ. of Santa Fe, 1994

Teaching Assistants

Roseanne Warren SSP '03 B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford, 2009 Christina Li SSP '03 B.A. Chemistry, Harvard, 2009 Rico Chiu SSP '04 B.S. Applied Physics, Business Economics, and Management, Caltech, 2009 Laura Hooks B.S. Astrophysics, Ohio Univ., 2008

New Mexico Campus

		Dr. Donald Davis - Academic Director Senior Scientist and Director Emeritus, Planetary Science Institute Ph.D. Physics, University of Arizona, 1967 B.S. Physics, Clemson University, 1962
		Dr. William Andersen - Assistant Academic Director Assoc. Prof. of Physics, Eastern NM Univ. Ph.D. Nuclear Physics, MIT, 1985 B.S. Physics, Baylor Univ., 1977
		Leslie Clark - Site Director Science Teacher, Magdalena HS, Magdalena, NM M.S. Science Teaching, NM Tech, 2006 B.A. Secondary Education / Science, Western NM Univ, 1994

Teaching Assistants

Peter Combs SSP '03 B.A. Physics, minor in Quantitative and Computational Biology, Princeton, 2008 Rebecca Mickol B.A. Astrophysics, Ecology, & Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, 2010 Rachel Paterno-Mahler SSP '02 Graduate student in Astronomy, UC Irvine B.A. Physics with Astronomy Concentration, Pomona College, 2007 Michelle Krok Graduate student in Physics, San Francisco State Univ. B.A. Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz, 2005