DURING HIS recent sabbatical leave, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Steven D. Bloom was a Visiting Scientist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has been appointed to the American Astronomical Society’s Committee on Light Pollution, Radio Interference and Space Debris, and at the College’s Final Convocation in 2007, he received the John Peter Mettauer Award for Excellence in Research. Bloom was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 2006. After receiving his B.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from Boston University, he began teaching at the College in 1999.

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Hampden-Sydney College Faculty Scholarship 2005-2008
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