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3-20-2021
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Dr. Lorin Swint Matthews is a professor of Physics at Baylor University where she is the Associate Director of the Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics, and Engineering Research. She received her Ph.D. in Physics from Baylor University in 1998. She worked for Raytheon Aircraft Integration Systems from 1998-2000 as a multi-disciplined engineer in the Flight Sciences Department, where she worked on NASA's SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) aircraft. In 2000, she joined the faculty at Baylor University. Her areas of research include numerical modeling and experimental investigations of the charging and dynamics of dust in astrophysical and laboratory plasma environments, for which she received an NSF CAREER Award in 2009. She is currently a member of the Fusion and Energy Sciences Advisory Committee for the Department of Energy. She presented in the morning engineering and physics panel session of OBU's Women in STEM conference held on March 20, 2021.
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