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Dr. Kim Michelle Lewis is from New Orleans, Louisiana. She received her secondary education in the New Orleans Public school system and graduated from McDonogh #35 Senior High School in 1994. She studied at Dillard University where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1998. At Dillard University, Kim received the David and Lucile Packard and the UNCF/Mellon Fellowships. She worked in the Dillard University High Energy Impact Research Laboratory, and her investigation of the fragmentation of wood composite materials using high speed imaging won several Packard Research Awards.
In 1998 Kim was accepted to the University of Michigan Applied Physics Ph.D. Program and received a $120,000 David and Lucille Packard Fellowship and several Pre-doctoral Research Grants from the Social Science Research Council. Following her first year, she joined Professor Ç. Kurdak’s Condensed Matter group in the Physics Department. Kim’s thesis work was the development of single electron devices for application as low-noise electrometers. This work led to a U.S. Patent No. 6,777,911 in August 2004. She has published her work in scientific journals, including Applied Physics Letters and the Journal of Applied Physics.
At the University of Michigan Kim had a very supportive network of colleagues, and in 2001 she became the president of the Movement of Underrepresented Sisters in Engineering and Science (MUSES), which is a formal dialogue group for women of color. In the same year she became the chairperson of the Gallium Arsenide Bay Committee for the University of Michigan Solid State Electronics Laboratory. Kim completed her Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in August 2003 and her Ph.D. in Applied Physics in August 2004 from the University of Michigan.
In 2004 Kim accepted a post-doctoral position at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Center for Computation and Technology with Dr. Theda Daniels-Race. In April 2005, Kim received a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship administered by the National Research Council of the National Academies to continue her research in the area of molecular electronics at LSU.
Currently, Kim is an Assistant Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, & Astronomy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). In Spring 2009 she was awarded a Career Enhancement Fellowship by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. |
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