COMMITTEES
Department of Physics and Astronomy
2015 - 2016
Committee	Area of Responsibility	Chair	Members
Planning	Advises the department head on issues of departmental policies, strategic planning, faculty searches.	Thomas Papenbrock	Elbio Dagotto, Norman Mannella, Tony Mezzacappa, Kate Jones, Stefan Spanier
Faculty Promotion, Tenure & Awards	Review and recommendation of faculty retention, tenure, promotion and awards.	Yuri Kamychkov	Adolfo Eguiluz, Geoff Greene, Mike Guidry, Tom Handler, Adriana Moreo.
Undergraduate Curriculum Majors	Curricular, recruiting and admission issues for undergraduate physics majors	Geoff Greene	Marianne Breinig, Kate Jones, Jon Levin, Tony Mezzacappa, Christine Nattrass, George Siopsis
Undergraduate Curriculum Non-Majors	Curriculum for general education and service courses	Jon Levin	Marianne Breinig, Yuri Efremenko, Andrew Steiner, Haidong Zhou, Jaan Mannik
Astronomy task force	Organization and coordination of outreach activities; Integration of planetarium programming and astronomy instruction.	Raph Hix	Paul Lewis, Sean Lindsay, Kate Jones
Graduate Studies	Graduate curriculum, graduate admission policies, graduate degree programs	Norman Mannella	Marianne Breinig,  Lloyd Davis, Adolfo Eguiluz, Robert Grzywacz, Thomas Papenbrock, Lucas Platter, and Stefan Spanier
Departmental Undergraduate Advising	Advise undergraduate physics and engineering physics majors	Stu Elston	Jon Levin, Christine Nattrass, Adriana Moreo, Mike Guidry, Norman Mannella
Undergraduate Student Liaison	Advice the Department Head on issues related to the undergraduate program	President of SPS	Louis Varriano
Peer Teaching Evaluations	Peer evaluation of faculty teaching	Marianne  Breinig	Adolfo Eguiluz, George Siopsis, Tony Mezzacappa, Thomas Papenbrock, Jon Levin
Graduate Student Recruitment and Admission	Recruiment of graduate students. Recommendation the the Department Head of admission of students to the graduate program.	Marianne  Breinig	Stefan Spanier, Lloyd Davis, Lucas Platter, and Weitering (ex-officio)
Student Appeals Review	Review student complaints as final step of internal appeals process	Stu Elston	Marianne Breinig, Ken Read
Endowment Development and Alumni Relations	Develop a program for soliciting and receiving gifts for alumni, friends, and corporations, and identify departmental areas of needs and objectives	Kate Jones	Lee Riedinger, Soren Sorensen, Catherine Longmire
Shop	Review use and operation of Electronics and Instrument Shop services	Robert Grzywacz	Jim Parks, Geoff Greene, Yuri Kamyshkov
Bylaws Task Force	Review and update the departmental bylaws	Soren Sorensen	Elbio Dagotto, Tom Handler, and Geoff Greene