Carlos Handy

Dr. Handy received all of his four degrees from Columbia University, concentrating in mathematics and physics, at the undergraduate level, and theoretical physics (i.e. path integral formulations of non-abelian gauge theories) at the graduate level, working under Dr. A. Mueller and Dr. John Klauder (AT&T). As a freshman he assisted Dr. Martin Gutzwiller (IBM) in his computational investigations of quantum chaos. He was the first participant and graduate of the AT&T Cooperative Research Fellowship Program which has produced many minority and women Ph.D’s in diverse academic disciplines. From 1978 – 81 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Following a brief appointment in industry, Dr. Handy joined the faculty of (presently) Clark Atlanta University (1983 – 2005) where he co-founded the Center for Theoretical Studies of Physical Systems, one of the first successful HBCU-research and student mentoring centers in the nation. In 2005 he became the chair of the new physics program at Texas Southern University, in Houston, Texas.