6/9/2000

Solomon named Dean of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. The Provost's Office is pleased to announce that Professor Daniel L. Solomon has agreed to become the Dean of the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences effective July 1, 2000. Quoting from the announcement: "Dan brings a wealth of experience, the trust, admiration, and respect of colleagues, and a clear sense of the future of the College."

Congratulations to Dean Solomon from everyone in the Department of Physics.

Congratulations to Undraa Agvaanluvsan, recently selected as a winner of the NC State University International Graduate Fellowship for 2000.

Spring 2000 Teaching Evaluations: The teaching evaluation summary for Spring 2000 is attached. The comment forms have been returned to the instructors. In looking over the written remarks, please remember there can be much of value in how the students have perceived the course and your instruction. However, do not overreact to anonymous evaluations which in your opinion have no merit. And as always, immediately discard any evaluations which contain personal or otherwise inappropriate remarks.

Physics Annual Report Summary. The Executive Summary of the Department's annual report to the Dean's office is on the web.

Welcome to our new faculty for the Fall semester: Albert Young, Lubos Mitas, and Celeste Sagui.

All of them are enthusiastic about working with undergraduate and graduate students. In future newsletters we will include brief summaries of their research activities so that interested students can learn more about their research.

Maria Archibald, NC Central University

William Baedke, Old Dominion University

Katherine Greene, St. Mary's College

Reese Haywood, King College

Alex Mayer, NC State University

Dana Paquin, Davidson College

Colin Schoder-Ehri, Earlham College

Emily Scott, East Central University

Christine Soo Hoo, NC State University

Nathan Speer, NC State University

Nick Stoute, NC State University

Berhane Temelso, Berea College

Brett Unks, NC State University

Luke Wagner, NC State University

Matthew Zeman, Bradley University

June 20, 9:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Trivia Department. The Earth will be at aphelion (its farthest point from the sun in its orbit) on July 3 at 8:00 PM, at a distance of 152.1 billion meters.

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