The Delmos Jones Visiting Scholar Program was inaugurated in Fall 2001 to honor the life and career of Professor Delmos Jones (1936-1999), a member of The Graduate Center Doctoral Faculty in Anthropology for 28 years.  In his life and work, Delmos Jones exemplified the highest ideals of scholarship while also nurturing students and engaging the important issues of our times.

The Delmos Jones Visiting Scholar Program brings four or five prominent minority scholars to the CUNY Graduate Center for several days each year. Each Scholar gives at least one public lecture, makes a presentation (or presentations) in the area of his/her research, and generally interacts with students and faculty both within and across doctoral programs.

SPRING 2002 Delmos Jones Visiting Scholars and Lectures

S. JAMES GATES, JR., who earned his Ph.D. from MIT, is a prominent scholar in theoretical physics, an educator and an entrepreneurial leader.  Since 1998 he has been the John S. Toll Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland.  His important research is in an area called string or superstring theory.  This theory uses complex mathematical descriptions to explain how gravity and other natural forces are connected and may one day allow scientists to understand a unified theory of all forces.  He is the author of Superspace, or One thousand and one lessons in supersymmetry (1983) and well over one hundred research papers in scientific journals such as Nuclear Physics and Physics Letters.

Hosted by the Ph.D. Program in Physics and Office of Research and Sponsored
Programs; Co-sponsored by Continuing Education and Public Programs

For further information, please call the Office of the Associate Provost and
Dean for Academic Affairs
Dr. Linda N. Edwards:
(212) 817-7280

Born to be a Physicist

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