The Associate Provost for Academic Affairs (APAA) works closely with the Provost and is a collaborative team member with staff and faculty to provide effective administration for Academic Affairs. The APAA works as a leader for the administration of the faculty and supervises staff in several areas of Academic Affairs.

Hendrix College is a national liberal arts college with a reputation for an innovative curriculum. The Department of Physics is committed to helping students explore and understand the laws that govern the universe. We apply those laws in practical ways to everyday things like bridges, circuits, and GPS navigation, and to less familiar concepts like subatomic structure, quantum information, and the relationship between entropy and the flow of time. Students accomplish this though problem solving strategies that are taught, practiced, reflected upon, and refined throughout their work in the classroom and the laboratory. This type of critical thinking empowers students to design ways to model and solve problems in the world that don’t yet have solutions. Our students recognize that the complexity of 21st century problems require the coordinated efforts of many individuals. To this end, our students learn to communicate their ideas persuasively and honestly, and they possess a framework that enables collaboration within a diverse team.

Established in 1917, the Arkansas Academy of Science began so that scientists in the state could forge regular avenues of communication with one another and promote science and the dissemination of scientific information in the state. The AAS is an all-volunteer organization that supports science in Arkansas with financial support, scholarships, a fellows program, scientific meetings, and a journal.

The Arkansas Space Grant Consortium's mission is to actively promote the involvement of the State of Arkansas in NASA activities. The ASGC is part of the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program NASA initiated in ’89; operations in the state began March 1, 1990. ASGC Includes 17 four-year universities and colleges throughout Arkansas. Our primary goal is to educate and familiarize faculty, undergraduate and graduate students with aerospace and related industries. The ASGC also conducts programs to familiarize and motivate K-12 students with the STEM related courses needed to enter aerospace activities at colleges and universities to prepare them to enter high tech white-collar and blue-collar professions in high-tech industries.

The goal of the $1.1 million, National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Noyce STEM Teacher Education in the Arkansas Delta (N-STEAD) program is to recruit and develop high-achieving Hendrix College science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) majors to be effective teachers.

The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics has established a program of visiting researchers in theoretical physics. The purpose of this program is to support the research efforts of faculty at U.S. colleges and universities that are not major research institutions.

Instructor for calculus-based general physics course.

Head teaching assistant for calculus-based general physics laboratory.

Instructor for Engineering Physics course.