Dr. Arion developed and directs the nation's first and longest-standing technology entrepreneurship program for undergraduates, ScienceWorks. Dr. Arion is also a member of the department of physics and astronomy, and conducts research with students at major observatories around the country, as well as developing scientific instrumentation for many different fields.

Dr. Arion came to Carthage in 1994 after a long career at Science Applications International Corporation, where he was assistant vice president and manager of the Applied Physics and Engineering Division. He was one of the senior experimenters in the US nuclear weapons survivability program, one of only a handful in the world to be involved in this research. Arion holds a patent on the Blast Induced Emission of Radiation (BIER) Gage (US Patent 5,315,364).

Dr. Arion helped found the Center for Advanced Technology and Innovation, a technology business development center in Racine, and as Senior Program Advisor provides strategic planning and technology evaluation for companies in the region. He is also heavily involved in technology business developed through academic partnerships with the National Collegiate Innovators and Inventors Alliance through the InovaED program that helped found at CATI.

Arion is also currently President of Galileoscope LLC, a company founded to provide telescopes worldwide for the 2009 International Year of Astronomy, sponsored by the UN/UNESCO and the International Astronomical Union.

He is an elected member of the International Astronomical Union, as well as a member of the American Physical Society, the American Astronomical Society, Sigma Xi, and Sigma Pi Sigma (physics honorary), and a life member of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, Appalachian Mountain Club, and the International Dark Sky Association.

He joined the Carthage faculty in 1994.

Temple Burling is a biophysicist interested in computational problems in macromolecular crystallography, the structure of proteins, the physics of biological systems, and the history of science.

He came to Carthage in 2002 from the Department of Biochemistry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, where he served as an assistant professor and as the director of the X-ray Crystallography Core Facility. Before his work at Cornell, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University, where he examined problems in computational crystallography, protein dynamics, and high-resolution macromolecular structure determination by multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion. His teaching and research interests focus on the overlap of physics and biology.

Kevin M. Crosby teaches in both the physics and computer science departments at Carthage, and has chaired both departments. Dr. Crosby has taught broadly across the physics department curriculum, including courses in planetary astronomy and global climate science. He is currently involved in a variety of undergraduate space science research initiatives including microgravity studies of lunar regolith, and near space exploration using sounding rockets and high altitude balloons.

Dr. Crosby also involves students in computational physics research. He and his students have published papers on several problems involving the physics of disordered materials and materials under mechanical and electrical stress. Computational physics research at Carthage makes use of molecular dynamics calculations to understand the behavior of atomic surfaces and boundaries. For term schedules and information on space sciences research opportunities at Carthage, visit Dr. Crosby's home page.

Julie Dahlstrom came to Carthage in 2008 from the University of Chicago where she was a postdoctoral researcher in observational astrophysics, specializing in high resolution spectroscopy of stars and interstellar clouds as well as the abundances of elements produced in the Big-Bang. Prof. Dahlstrom is a primary instrument scientist for the Astrophysical Research Consortium's echelle spectrograph on the 3.5m telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico and a support scientist for the 1m reflector telescope at Yerkes Observatory. During her years as a researcher, she authored or co-authored more than 50 articles appearing in refereed scientific journals and conference proceedings. While at the University of Chicago, Prof. Dahlstrom was awarded the Robert J. Trumpler award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for her dissertation research and a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Jean Quashnock is a researcher in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), also known as the Map of the Universe Project, a 10-year effort to catalog and map 100 million galaxies. Prof. Quashnock's research interests include cosmology, large-scale structure in the universe, high-energy astrophysics and gamma-ray bursts, and absorption-line systems in quasar spectra. His work has been published in more than 60 scientific publications.

Prof. Quashnock is an active member of the American Astronomical Society, the American Physical Society, Sigma Xi, and the American Association of Physics Teachers. He is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago, where he previously was a lecturer and a research scientist. In Fall 2006, he was on sabbatical leave at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, researching the large-scale structure of the universe with SDSS scientists. Prof. Quashnock has a particular interest in acoustics and the physics of music, and teaches a J-term course called "Good Vibrations: The Science of Music".

Prof. Quashnock studied the dynamics of topological defects and the effects of phase transitions in the early universe ("The First Three Microseconds: Cosmic Strings, Axions, and Magnetic Fields"). After doing postdoctoral research and teaching at the University of Chicago, he joined the Carthage faculty in 1999.

Dr. Schwartz's expertise is in nuclear and atomic physics. He uses lasers to study the spin and polarization of atoms and nuclei. He has performed research on nuclear and atomic polarization at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility. His current research interests include the production of polarized gas targets using optical pumping. He has worked extensively with pre-med students preparing for the MCAT, is the advisor for the Society of Physics Students at Carthage, and also teaches in the Great Ideas Program. He joined the faculty in 2000.