Professor of Physics

Chair of the General Faculty

Elizabeth F. McCormack received her bachelor's degree from Wellesley College in 1983 and her Ph.D. in physics from Yale University in 1989. Thereafter, she joined the Laser Photophysics and Photochemistry program at Argonne National Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. In 1990 she was awarded an Alexander Hollaender Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship. In 1991 she accepted a permanent staff position in the Laser Photophysics and Photochemistry program, and in 1993 she was promoted to the position of Physicist. In 1995 she joined the faculty at Bryn Mawr College and began a research program in molecular physics with funding from a CAREER award from the NSF.  She was promoted with tenure to the associate rank in 2001 and in 2005 was promoted to Professor.   She is a member of the American Physical Society, the Association for Women in Science,  the American Association for Physics Teachers and a Faculty 21 member of Project Kaleidoscope. In 2005 she was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.  Her research interests include using techniques in nonlinear optical laser spectroscopy to study fundamental characteristics and excited state decay dynamics of small molecules.  

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