New Physics Professor Joins MCLA
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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Kebra Ward has joined Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts as an assistant professor of physics and faculty member in the college’s Department of Physics.
Ward, whose field is experimental optics, is particularly interested in investigating how light interacts with materials, particularly organic semiconducting crystals. She will teach “General Physics I” and “General Physics II” with multiple labs, as well as “Introduction to Electricity,” “Magnetism” and “Electronics.”
Ward, who comes to the College from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., where she was a teaching and research assistant, said she chose MCLA because she felt the campus is a place where she can focus on teaching and use research as an educational tool.
“I also wanted to be at a small program that would let me get to know my students and give them personal attention. I’m a better teacher when I know my students’ names,” Ward said.
“I was so happy to find a public liberal arts college,” she continued. “College is crazy expensive now, and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to provide students with the personalized and broad education that state liberal arts colleges provide without the crippling debt.”
Ward earned her Ph.D. and her master’s degree in physics from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. In addition, she completed continuing education in secondary science education at East Stroudsburg University in East Stroudsburg, Pa. She earned her bachelor of science degree in astronomy from the University of Southern California-Los Angeles.
She joins Physics Department Chairwoman Emily Maher and Adrienne Wootters.
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