Amy Graves

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Amy Lisa Graves (also published as Amy L. Ritzenberg and Amy L. R. Bug) is a retired American physicist and physics educator, the Walter Kemp Professor Emerita in the Natural Sciences and Professor of Physics at Swarthmore College. [1] Her publications include works on gender bias in physics, [2] [3] physics education, [4] and computational simulations of phenomena in condensed matter physics, including jamming. [5]

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Education and career

Graves is a 1975 graduate of Laurel School, a private school for girls in Ohio. [6] She double-majored in mathematics and physics at Williams College, graduating summa cum laude and as salutatorian in 1979. She went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate study, completing her Ph.D. there in 1984. [7]

Before becoming a faculty member at Swarthmore College in 1988, [8] she was a postdoctoral researcher at Exxon from 1984 to 1986, and then at Columbia University from 1986 to 1988. [7] She retired as Walter Kemp Professor Emerita in 2022. [8]

Recognition

In 2018, Graves was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Forum on Education, "for extraordinary contributions to physics education, including creatively strengthening the teaching of computational physics and steadily engaging issues of gender and physics through presentations and publications". [9] [10]

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References

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  2. Graber, Cynthia (August 3, 2010), "Physics students reveal bias for male lecturers", Scientific American, retrieved 2023-04-03
  3. 1 2 Gender-bias impacts women physicists, Institute of Physics, August 3, 2010, retrieved 2023-04-03 via Phys.org
  4. 1 2 James, Elizabeth, "Review of Forces and Motion", The Science Teacher, 76 (1): 78–79, JSTOR   24144392
  5. 1 2 Physicist Amy Graves and Students Examine the Physics of Structured Randomness, Swarthmore College, July 16, 2020, retrieved 2023-04-03
  6. "Amy Ritzenberg Graves '75", List detail, Laurel School, retrieved 2023-04-03
  7. 1 2 Curriculum vitae (PDF), 2018, retrieved 2023-04-03
  8. 1 2 Hormel, Heidi (April 29, 2022), Swarthmore Bids Farewell to Retiring Faculty Members, Instructional Staff, Swarthmore College, retrieved 2023-04-03
  9. "Fellows nominated in 2018 by the Forum on Education", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2023-04-03
  10. "Congratulations to new APS Fellow Dr. Amy Graves '79", Physics Department News, Williams College, retrieved 2023-04-03