This month, Robert Birgeneau joined the University of California, Berkeley, as its ninth chancellor, succeeding Robert Berdahl, who will return to the Berkeley faculty after a year-long sabbatical. Birgeneau comes to Berkeley from the University of Toronto, where he had served four years as president.
In July, J. Anthony Tyson became a member of the University of California, Davis, physics faculty as a distinguished professor. He is also now the director of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope project, in which the university is a partner. Tyson previously was affiliated with Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs as a distinguished member of the technical staff.
Michael F. Thorpe has joined Arizona State University in Tempe as Foundation Professor to set up a new group in biophysics theory. He holds joint appointments in the departments of physics and astronomy and of chemistry and biochemistry, and in the Arizona Biodesign Institute. He previously was...
