Neal B. Abraham, whose theoretical and experimental research specialties include chaos, lasers, quantum optics, and optical nonlinear dynamics, earned his B.S. in 1972 from Dickinson College and his Ph.D. in 1977 from Bryn Mawr College.  Dr. Abraham has taught at Bryn Mawr; Swarthmore College; Jilin University, China; Polytechnic University of Torino, University of Pisa, and University of Florence, Italy; University of the Balearic Islands and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain; Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and the University of Lille, France. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served as an editor for Optics Communications, and an Associate Editor for Physical Review E and for the Journal of the European Optical Society B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics.

           Dr. Abraham served on the Executive Committee during the founding of Project Kaleidoscope, a national organization for the improvement of undergraduate science education.  Dr. Abraham also served as an inaugural member of the National Research Council's Committee on Undergraduate Science Education. He has played leadership roles in the Council on Undergraduate Research and the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research.

         At DePauw he also holds the positions of Executive Vice President, Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Dean of the Faculty at DePauw University.

         Among his recent publications are:

Science Teaching Reconsidered, A Handbook.  (National Research Council, National Academies Press, 1997). with G. Boggs, P. Campos, B. Davis, N. Devino, E. Johann, J. Labov, M. Mahlab, D. Merritts, P. Moore, D. Wilkinson.

Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology, Committee on Undergraduate Science Education, Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education, National Research Council (National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1999).  with 31 co-authors.

"Mentoring the Whole Life of Emerging Scientists", in Coming Into Her Own, edited by S.N. Davis, M. Crawford, and J. Sebrechts (Jossey-Bass Inc., 1999) pp. 211-224.

"Details, Anomalies, Symmetries and Asymmetries in the Relaxation Oscillation Spectra of Multimode Standing Wave Solid State Lasers,” Physical Review A, 62, [2000], 013810, 11 pages. with L. Sekaric, L.L. Carson, V. Seccareccia, P.A. Khandokhin, Ya. I. Khanin, I.V. Koryukin and V.G. Zhislina.

“Different regimes of low-frequency fluctuations in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers,” Journal of the Optical Society of America B 20, [2003] 37-44, with M. Sciamanna, C. Masoller, F. Rogister, P. Mégret and M. Blondel.

“Fast pulsing dynamics of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser operating in the low-frequency fluctuation regime,” Physical Review A, 68,[2003] 015805-1 to 015805-4, with M. Sciamanna, C. Masoller, F. Rogister, P. Mégret, and M. Blondel.

“Transforming Institutional Culture:  Programs plus Policy,” Gender Equality in Higher Education.  Miscellanea.  Thirteenth European Conference.  Genoa, 13-16 April 2003.  Edited by V. Maione (FrancoAngeli, 2005)   pages: 13-30, with M. Altman.

“Creating Academic Career Opportunities for Women in Science:  Lessons from Liberal Arts Colleges,” Neal B. Abraham in Removing Barriers: Women in Academic Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, edited by Jill M. Bystydzienski and Sharon R. Bird (Indiana U. Press, Bloomington, 2006).  to be published.

“Facilities and Resources that Promote a Research-Supportive Curriculum” in “Successful practices that enable faculty and institutions to design, implement, and sustain a research-supportive undergraduate curriculum,”  Kerry Karukstis and Tim Elgrin, eds.  Council on Undergraduate Research, (Washington, DC. 2006), to be published.

 

         Recent conference presentations include:

“Realizing Technology Rich Spaces: The Experience of One Campus,” 2003 PKAL-NITLE Facilities Workshop.  Greencastle, Indiana.  October 24-26, 2003, with F. Soster and D. Moriarity. 

“What Deans Can Do To Support Undergraduate Research:  Dean’s Roundtable,” CUR 2004 National Conference, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI, June 23-26, 2004, with, Michael Nelson, Mike Tannenbaum, David Brakke, Beth Cunningham, and Cora Marrett. 

“Making Partnership Work Across Campus,”  Seminars on Academic Computing, EDUCAUSE, Aspen, CO, August 9-10, 2004, with Dennis Trinkle. 

“Initiatives to Recruit Faculty Members to Serve Strategic Needs at Liberal Arts Colleges” Annual Meeting of American Association of Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC, January 24-28, 2006, with James Swartz and Bradley Bateman.