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2009 Faculty

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.

Ojai Campus

Dr. Tracy Furutani

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

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

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

Eric Astor SSP '03
B.A. Math & Physics, Swarthmore College, 2009

Erin Martell
B.A. Astrophysics & Latin, Swarthmore College, 2009


Socorro Campus

Dr. Don Davis

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

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

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

Lulu Liu
B.S. Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009

Michelle Krok
graduate student in physics, San Francisco State Univ.
B.A. Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz, 2005