Lynchburg College has four active faculty members in physics. From left to right:
Julius
Sigler has been associated with the college for 51 years and is currently in his
third year as Dean of the
College. He earned his B.S. in physics from
LC
in 1962 and received his Ph.D. in physics from the
University
of Virginia in 1967.
John Eric
Goff came to LC in the fall of 2002 and is currently
in his seventh year as the chair of the physics department. He received his B.S. in
physics and mathematics from Vanderbilt
University in 1992 and took his Ph.D. in physics from
Indiana
University in 1999.
Neal Sumerlin
has been an active member of the
chemistry department
since coming to LC in 1976. He finished his undergraduate work in
professional chemistry at Ouachita Baptist
University in 1972 and earned
his Ph.D. in nuclear chemistry from the University of Arkansas in 1977.
Professor Sumerlin teaches our astronomy courses and runs the
observatory.
Chinthaka Liyanage arrived at LC in the fall of 2008. He earned a B.S. in physics from the University of Colombo in 2002, an M.S. in physics from Bowling Green State University in 2004, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Toledo in 2008.