Holy Cross science faculty are nationally renowned for their cutting-edge research and innovative approaches to teaching. Recent notable faculty achievements include:
Robert Bellin (biology)
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Kenneth Mills (chemistry)
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Received $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a biochemistry core faculty. Mills also received the college’s first CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation.
Mary Lee S. Ledbetter (biology)
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Named Distinguished Teaching Scholar by the National Science Foundation, one of only five in the nation.
Robert Garvey (physics)
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Named “United States Professor of the Year” by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.
Janine Shertzer (physics)
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Elected fellow in the American Physical Society, for her “groundbreaking introduction of novel finite-element techniques in calculation of bound state and scattering properties of atomic and molecular systems.”
Amy Wolfson (psychology)
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Awarded $1.07 million grant from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development — the largest in the College’s history — for research into children’s sleep cycles and effects on learning.