Dr. Elizabeth H. Simmons

Introduction

Dr. Elizabeth H. Simmons is Dean of Lyman Briggs College and a Professor of Physics in the Michigan State University Department of Physics and Astronomy. Lyman Briggs is a four-year residential undergraduate college at Michigan State University that focuses on the study of science in its historical, philosophical, and sociological context.

After completing her undergraduate degree at Harvard University in 1985, Simmons earned an M.Phil. in physics at Cambridge University as a Churchill Scholar. She returned to Harvard for her doctoral degree and postdoctoral fellowship, and then spent a decade as a professor at Boston University before joining the MSU faculty in summer 2003. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a General Member and Officer of the Aspen Center for Physics. In 2005, she won the ACE Michigan Network's Distinguished Woman in Higher Education Leadership Award.

Simmons is a particle theorist, whose research focuses on the origins of the masses of the elementary subatomic particles, particularly that of the top quark. She enjoys teaching physics courses at all levels, from introductory courses for freshmen to graduate courses. Part of her mission as an educator is to encourage more students (especially from groups now under-represented in physics) to consider studies and careers in the physical sciences.

 

Lyman Briggs College 28 East Holmes Hall Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48825-1107 517-353-6486 (phone) 517 432-2758 (fax) esimmons@msu.edu

© 2007 Elizabeth H. Simmons

Department of Physics & Astronomy 3221 Biomedical Physical Sciences Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-2320 517-355-9200 x2134 (phone) 517-355-6661 (fax) esimmons@msu.edu