Faculty of Chemistry and Physics

 

Dr. Steve Ball, Professor of Physics, chair

Office: Glaske O-135

Phone: 903-233-3961

E-mail: StevenBall@letu.edu

Dr. Ball is pictured here with his chaotic pendulum, used to study chaos theory.

 

                

    
Dr. Gary DeBoer, Professor of Chemistry

Office: Glaske O-137

Phone: 903-233-3955

E-mail: GaryDeBoer@letu.edu

Dr. DeBoer is pictured here with the tube furnace which has been used by students to make superconductors and may be used in the future to grow nanowires in a collaborative research project with the Naval Research Lab in Washington DC.

 

 

Dr. Doug Ford, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry

Office: Glaske O-139

Phone: 903-233-3953

E-mail: DougFord@letu.edu

Dr. Ford is pictured here next to one of the rotary evaporators in the organic chemistry laboratory. 

 

 

Dr. Ted Forringer, Associate Professor of Physics

Office: Glaske O-147

Phone: 903-233-3959

E-mail: TedForringer@letu.edu

Dr. Forringer is pictured here with the his Milliken oil drop apparatus.  Dr. Forringer is well loved for his illustrative demonstrations in both class and lab.

  

Michael Gentsch, adjunct instructor of physics

Phone: 903-233-3950

E-mail: MIchaelGentsch@letu.edu

Michael Gentsch is pictured here demonstrating the wave nature of the human voice.

 

 

 

Dr. Herb Jarrell, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry and Geology

Phone: 903-233-3955

E-mail: HerbJarrell@letu.edu

Dr. Jarrell is pictured here with a model of an organic molecule and the Periodic Table of the Elements. 
  

 

  

Dr. Richard Johnson , Emeritus Professor of Chemistry

Office: Glaske O-139

Phone: 903-233-3953

E-mail:  RichardJohnson@letu.edu

Dr. Johnson is pictured here holding a space shuttle tile.  He and Dr. Ford worked on the chemistry of shuttle tile design. 

 

 

 

Karen Austin, Academic Secretary

Office: Glaske O-zone

Phone: 903-233-3950

E-mail: KarenAustin@letu.edu

Karen is pictured at her desk coordinating the many activities of the chemistry and physics department.