After guiding the Department of Physics and Astronomy as chairperson for the last seven years, Prof. Chip Brock has stepped down, effective February 15, 2001, in order to concentrate on his research and teaching duties. He was instrumental in the Department's efforts to join the SOAR telescope project, and he played a major role in moving us into a new state-of-the-art science building. His seven-year term was extremely successful and saw the Department rise in most major national rankings.
Prof. Brock is currently developing a new Honors course for the Integrative Studies Program, ISP211H, which he will begin teaching in the fall semester 2001. And he is putting more emphasis on his research program in experimental particle physics at Fer
milab.Citation for Distinguished Faculty
Award to Raymond Brock
Department of Physics and Astronomy
College of Natural Science
Raymond Brock has established an international reputation for pioneering
research into the fundamental constituents of matter. He is a leading
member of a team working at the world's most powerful particle accelerator,
and he already occupies the role of elder statesman in the particle physics
community. As a fellow of the American Physical Society, his advice is
continually sought in a variety of prestigious appointments: as an independent
panel member selected by the governor of Michigan; on program advisory
committees at the U.S. Department of Energy, Fermilab, Los Alamos and
Stanford University; and as a convener of a U.S.-European working group
on particle accelerators. Brock's extremely successful seven years as
chairperson of the Department of Physics and Astronomy culminated in the
department's move into MSU's new Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building.
Despite his position as a leader in a specialized and esoteric scientific
field, Brock is equally at home teaching undergraduates in liberal arts
or integrative studies at MSU. MSU NEws Feb 12, 2004.
