Dr. David P. Balamuth
Associate Dean and Professor of Physics
Dr.
Balamuth is responsible to the dean for the Departments of
Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Studies, Linguistics,
Mathematics, Psychology, and Physics and Astronomy. He works
with the dean on priorities and long-term planning in these
fields and with department chairs on issues of personnel,
budget, space, and facilities. Dr. Balamuth also oversees
a number of academic personnel matters for the Dean's Office,
including faculty retirement.
Dr. Balamuth was named associate dean in 1995. He is an experimental nuclear physicist whose research interests focus on atomic nuclei of unusual composition. He has served in several capacities as an adviser to the federal government, including a year as program officer for nuclear physics at the National Science Foundation and most recently as a member of the Long Range Plan Working Group of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Balamuth holds an A.B. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Columbia. He came to Penn in 1968 and has served the University as graduate chair in physics, chair of the Faculty Senate, and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy.