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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.
Westmont (CA) Campus
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Dr. Tracy Furutani SSP '79 - Academic Director
Science Instructor, North Seattle Community College
Ph.D. Geology, Univ. of Washington, 1994
M.S. Chemistry, Stanford Univ., 1986
B.S. Chemistry and History, Caltech, 1984
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Dr. Michael Faison - Associate Academic Director
Director, Leitner Observatory at Yale Univ.
Ph.D., Astronomy, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, 1999
B.A. Physics, Oberlin College, 1994
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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
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Teaching Assistants
Bethania Bacigalupe SSP '03
Sophomore in Mathematics & BioDesign, Harvard Univ.
Rico Chiu SSP '04
Graduate student in Electrical Engineering at Caltech
B.S. Applied Physics, Business Economics, and Management, Caltech, 2009
Mary Masterman SSP '05
Senior in Chemistry, MIT
Benjamin Steele SSP '05
B.S. Biology, Caltech, 2010
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New Mexico Tech Campus
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Dr. Ran Sivron - Academic Director
Assoc. Prof. of Physics, Baker University
Ph.D. Physics and Astrophysics, Montana State Univ, 1995
B.A. Physics, Technion, Israel, 1987
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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
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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
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Teaching Assistants
Sean Mattingly SSP '03
Support Tech at Spitzer Science Center, Caltech
B.S. Physics. Business Economics and Management, Caltech, 2008
Shiyu Bai SSP '05
B.S. Biophysics, USC, 2010
Rachel Wagner-Kaiser SSP '05
B.A. Physics & Astronomy, Vasser, 2010
Benjamin Knudsen SSP '06
Rising senior in Mathematics, Princeton
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