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2024 Faculty & Staff Retirements

Retiring Faculty

Blas Cabrera

Blas Cabrera, the Stanley G. Wojcicki Professor in Physics, is a long-time leader of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS), for which he shared the 2013 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics from the American Physical Society.

Sarah Church

Sarah Church, Professor of Physics, has served as Senior Associate Vice Provost, Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning (2019 - Present), Senior Associate Vice Provost, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (2016 - 2018), and Director of Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (2013 - 2016).

Andrei Linde

Andrei Linde, Humanities and Sciences Professor, is one of the authors of inflationary theory and of the theory of an eternal inflationary multiverse. His work emphasizes the cosmological implications of string theory and supergravity. He was awarded the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics (2014), and the Fundamental Physics Prize (2012), among many other honors.

Retiring Staff

Associate Director of Undergradaute Studies

17 years of service

Chaya started in the Physics Department as a Lecturer for PHYS 45 over the Summer of 2008 before coming on board full time in September 2008. Over her 16+ years at Stanford she revamped the introductory course discussion and lab sections from lecture/plug and chug, to pedagogically sound, active learning sections; converted the TA training class to a practicum so TAs had a chance to practice "active teaching" methods before actually teaching their own sections; ran a successful Summer Undergraduate Research Program; and mentored both TAs and undergraduates.

As the first non-faculty Lecturer of a large introductory Physics course (PHYS 21; Autumn 2019) she demonstrated that large lectures could be successfully taught in "flipped mode." She co-taught and advised other introductory instructors. As a result, five years later, all six large introductory lectures have now flipped.

Violeta Catindig

Violet Catindig

Front Desk Administrative Associate

34 years of service

Ping Feng

Ping Feng

Research Administrator

31 years of service

Scott Barton

Scott Barton

Facilities Specialist

17 years of service