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Janine Shertzer, the College's Anthony and Renee Marlon Professor in the Sciences, has been elected a fellow in the American Physical Society (APS)—a rare honor for a professor at an undergraduate liberal arts college. Nominated by the society's "Few Body Systems Topical Group," Shertzer's citation recognizes her "ground-breaking introduction of novel finite-element techniques in calculations of bound state and scattering properties of atomic and molecular systems." According to the society's rules, no more than one-half of one percent of the APS's 43,000 membership is eligible for fellowship.
Shertzer earned her bachelor's degree at Loyola College in Baltimore and master's degree and Ph.D. at Brown University, Providence, R.I. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1984, she has served as chair of the physics department and as a member of the editorial board of Physical Review A. Shertzer has also twice served as visiting scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Recipient of a National Science Foundation Faculty Award for Women and the author of numerous scientific publications and presentations, she conducts research in theoretical atomic and molecular physics. Her teaching interests include: quantum mechanics; development of interactive demonstrations for the class "General Physics in Daily Life"; and involvement of undergraduates in the application of finite element analysis to quantum systems.
Founded in 1899 at Columbia University, in New York City, the American Physical Society publishes the world's most prestigious physics research journals.
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