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

		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
		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
		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

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

New Mexico Tech 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, Israel, 1987
		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

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