Curriculum Vitae

Calvin R Howell

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Contact information

TUNL
Box 90308		 919-660-2632

Education

Doctor of PhilosophyDuke University1984
Master of ArtDuke University1980
Bachelor of ScienceDavidson College1978

Areas of Research

Experimental Nuclear Physics

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University
Director of TUNL, Physics, July 1, 2006 - present
Adjunct Professor, Medical Physics Program, July 01, 2005 - present
Deputy Director of TUNL, Physics, July 1, 2001 - June 30, 2006
Professor, Physics, 2001-present
Academic Coordinator for the Minority Medical Education Program, Medical Center, 2001-03
Associate Professor, Physics, 1992-2001
Assistant Professor, Physics, 1985-92
Instructor/Research Associate, Physics, 1984-85
North Carolina Central University
Adjunct Professor, Physics, 1993-present
Visiting Positions
  • Physicist, Jefferson Laboratory, June-December 2000
  • Program Director for Nuclear Physics, National Science Foundation, 1998-99
  • Physicist, The Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, June-December 1994
  • Physicist, The Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, June-December 1992
  • Faculty Fellow, The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, July-December 1989
  • Physicist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, June-December 1987

Conferences Organized

  • Co-chair, The DNP Long-range PlanningWorkshop on American Competitiveness, January 19, 2007
  • Member of local organizing committee, Chiral Dynamics: Fifth International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics, 2005 - 2006
  • Member, Program Committee for the 2006 April Meeting of the American Physical Society, May, 2005 - April, 2006
  • Member, Program Committee for the 2005 April Meeting of the American Physical Society, October 15, 2004 - April 15, 2005
  • Chair, Program Committee for the 71st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society, January 01, 2004 - November 25, 2004
  • Member of local organizing committee, The 17th International IUPAP Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, June 5 - 10, Durham, NC, January-June 2003

Professional Service

  • Member, Faculty Diversity Standing Committee, September 01, 2007 - present
  • Chair, Radiation Safety Committee, September, 2006 - present
  • Member, Astrophysics Working Group, 2006 - present
  • Member, Duke Steering Committee for planning visits by Morehouse and Spelman, June 01, 2005 - present
  • Peer reviewer, Review of grant proposals submitted to the nuclear physics program at the DOE, 2000 - present
  • Member, The Mellon Mays Dissertation Grant Committee, January 3, 2000 - present
  • Referee, Physical Review, 1990 - present
  • Member, Nuclear Science Advisory Committee Long-range Plan Writing Group, March 01, 2007 - December 31, 2007
  • Chair, The Committee On Minorities in Physics of the American Physical Society, January, 2006 - December, 2006
  • Past Chair, Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society (SESAPS) Executive Committee, January, 2006 - December, 2006
  • DUS, Director of Undergraduate Studies, July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2006
  • Member, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Director's Review Committee of the Nuclear, May, 2006
  • Member, Ph.D. Defense Committee for Amanda Sabourov, April, 2006
  • Member, Master Defense Committee for Elisa Osenbaugh, April, 2006
  • Member, Ph.D. Defense Committee for Joe Kinast, March, 2006
  • Member, Preliminary Exam Committee for Joe Newton at UNC-CH, Nov. 2005
  • Chair, Executive Committee of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society, January, 2005 - December, 2005
  • Member, The Committee On Minorities in Physics of the American Physical Society, January, 2004 - December, 2005
  • Member, Review Committee for the Division of Nuclear Physics at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, May 11, 2005
  • Member, Executive Committee of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society, April 7, 2003 - April 17, 2005
  • Member, NSAC Subcommittee on Education, February 1, 2003 - December 10, 2004
  • Chair, Preliminary Exam Committee for Matthew Kiser, November 22, 2004
  • Member, Physics Department Strategic Planning Committee, October 1, 2004
  • Speaker, Graduate School Orientation, August 17, 2004
  • Member, Executive Commitee of the Graduate Faculty, 2002-04
  • Member, Introductory Physics Committee, June 15, 2004
  • Member, Preliminary Exam Committee for J. Kinast, June 09, 2004
  • Member, Preliminary Exam Committee for Brent Perdue, April 29, 2004
  • Chair, Ph.D. Defense Committee for Robert Macri, February 13, 2004
  • Chair Elect, Executive Committee of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society, Jan. 2004 - Dec. 2004
  • Vice Chair, Executive Committee of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society, Jan. 2003 - Dec. 2003
  • Chair, Ph.D. Defense Committee for S. Tajima, December 1, 2003
  • Member, Preliminary Exam Committee of S. Montero, November 1, 2003
  • member, Faculty Review Committee, May-October 2003
  • member, Preliminary Exam Committee of A. Sabourov, October 1, 2003
  • member, Athletic Council, 2000-03
  • member, Ph.D. Defense Committee of K. Sabourov, April-May 2003
  • member, Intro Physics Committee, January-May 2003
  • member, NSF Physics Frontiers Centers panel, January-May 2002
  • member, Faculty Search Committee for Assistant Research Professor in the area of accelerator-based light sources, January-December 2001
  • member, Faculty Search Committee for tenure-track Assistant Professor of Physics, June-September 2001
  • Faculty Coordinator, The Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program, July 1, 1996 - June 30, 2001
  • Chair, Faculty Search Committee in the area of experimental nuclear physics, 2002-01
  • member, Organizing Committee for the town meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the APS on Electromagnetic Probes and Hadron Physics, September-December 2000
  • member, The NSF Physics Frontiers Centers Pre-Proposal Panel, September-November 2000
  • Chair, Faculty Search Committee for tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of theoretical nuclear physics, 1999-2000
  • member, Search Committee for Dean of Student Affairs for the Graduate School, January-May 1998

Selected Recent Invited Talks

  • Measuring the Neutron-Neutron Scattering Length, Carolina Isospin Violation Workshop, Columbia, SC, December 01, 2007
  • Tracking Substance Translocation in Plants using Radioisotopes, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, November 16, 2006
  • Measuring Dynamical Responses of Plants to Global Change Using Short-lived Radioisotope, Colloquium in Physics Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, September 21, 2006
  • Development of a System to Measure Responses of Plants to Global Change using Short-lived Radioisotopes, Physics Department Colloquium at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, March 20, 2006
  • Measuring Dynamic Biological Responses of Plants to Global Change using Short-lived Radioisotopes, Physics Department Colloquium at University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, March 1, 2006
  • Real-time Measurements of Photosynthate Translocation in Plants, Innoworks at Duke University, August 8, 2005
  • Real-time Measurements of Photosynthate Translocation in Plants, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program at Duke University, July 21, 2005
  • Real-time Measurements of Carbon Uptake and Distribution, Physics Colloquium at Ohio University, Athens, OH, May 19, 2005
  • Real-time Measurements of Carbon Uptake and Distribution, Physics Colloquium at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, November 29, 2004
  • Upgrades at the Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory, Southeastern Section Meeting of the APS, Oak Ridge, TN, November 13, 2004
  • The High Intensity Gamma Source (HIGS) at the Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory, Workshop of the Majorana Collaboration, Durham, NC, November 06, 2004
  • New Measurements of the Neutron Electric Form Factor, 2003 April Meeting of the Americal Physical Society, Philadelphia, PA, 5 April 2003
  • Upgrade of the High-Intensity Gamma-Ray Source at Duke University, 2003 Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists, Atlanta, GA, 12 February 2003
  • Results from Indirect Measurements of the 1S0 Neutron-Neutron Scattering Length, 17th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, Univ. of North Texas - Denton, 14 November 2002
  • First Studies of the Coupling of an Accelerator to a Subcritical Multiplying System for Thermal Spectrum Transmutation, The 11th International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems, Albuquerque, NM, 30 October 2002
  • Research Opportunities at the High Intensity Gamma-ray Source, Physics Department Colloquium at NC A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, 28 October 2002
  • Review of Indirect Methods used to Determine the 1S0 Neutron-Neutron Scattering Length, the X International Seminar on Interactions of Neutrons with Nuclei, Dubna, Russia, 20 May 2002
  • Curosity Driven Research: Making Deposits for the future, The Ron McNair Symposium on Science Frontiers: The Role of HBCU's in the 21st Century Higher Education, NC A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, 28 January 2002

Doctoral Theses Directed

  • Robert A. Macri, Cross-Section Measurements of the Space-Star Configuration in nd Breakup at 10 and 13 MeV, (2004)
  • Shigeyuki Tajima, Measurements of the Electric Form Factor of the Neutron at Q2=0.45 and 1.13 (GeV/c)2, (2003)
  • Alexander S. Crowell, Cross-Section Measurements of Star Configurations in Neutron-Deuteron Breakup at 16.0 MeV, (2001)
  • Frank Salinas Meneses, Use of the 1S0 Neutron-Proton Scattering Length as a Probe for Three Nucleon Forces, (1998)
  • Qiankun Chen, Extraction of the 1S0 Neutron-Neutron Scattering Length from the Reaction pion+deuteron --> gamma+n+n Using Monte-Carlo Simulation, (1998)
  • Henry R. Setze III, Differential Cross Section for the Neutron-Deuteron Breakup Reaction at En = 13.0 MeV, (1994)

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